The Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), in partnership with the Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Diaspora Issues, Intellectual Migration Institute and Cross Cultural Universum, organized an international scientific conference “Migration Processes and Transfer of Identity” on October 15. Representatives of the Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Diaspora Issues, TSU students, academic staff and invited guests attended the event.
TSU Professor
Alexander Kartozia said:“The conference has gathered representatives of various fields, among them economists, historians, philosophers, linguists and literary critics. So, we, the participants, will have an opportunity to get information in various fields. The conference is about migration and the life of migrants. In 2018 Georgia will be the guest country of the Frankfurt Book Fair. It means that we should translate from Georgian to German as much as possible. Since we do not have many highly skilled translators, Georgians living in Germany can make a significant contribution.”
“Global Diaspora Week is being held on October 13-17. In Georgia this event is being held in partnership with the International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA) founded by Hillary Clinton in Washington. Georgia joined the organization in 2014. Under the memorandum signed on May 27, 2015, Georgia became a regional partner and in October we will be holding Global Diaspora Week for the second time already,”
Nina Matiashvili, chief advisor to the State Minister for Diaspora Issues, said.
The aim of the conference was to promote modern interdisciplinary research in migration issues. Migration processes represent one of the main challenges of the 20th and the 21st centuries. Migration, as an individual and collective act, is related to a number of important issues. Most important among them are the problems of borders and transfer of identity. Intensification of migration, globalization and inter-cultural processes, expansion of the European political space and going beyond the limits of a classical model of the state - “Nation State” – as well as recent territorial conflicts in the post-Soviet space, made the problems of national identity and culture very important.
The conference was held in frames of Global Diaspora Week.
