2014-09-24
International Conference on Topical Issues of Antique Culture and Its Heritage
A joint scientific conference of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and Tbilisi State University on Topical Issues of Antique Culture and Its Heritage was opened at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University on September 24. TSU Deputy Rector, Academician Levan Aleksidze, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Giorgi Sharvashidze, Georgian and foreign scientists, as well as students attended the event.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili welcomed the participants of the conference. “It is a great honor for me to return to the university walls; I am especially pleased to participate in the conference organized by my professors. I would like to extend my greetings to those scientists, who are revitalizing, researching and analyzing antique period, as well as those issues, which have a great influence on modernity; who are showing how we will develop tomorrow and helping us take more correct steps in future. It is just antique period, where one of the important values – value of freedom – is coming from,” President Margvelashvili said.
“TSU is proud to be hosting this top level conference. Today the situation is extremely turbulent in the world – cataclysms, climate change. The universality looks like a shelter; the conference works on eternal issues - the issues which are always topical and serve as the basis of modernity,” Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Giorgi Sharvashidze said.
Professor Rismag Gordeziani, Director of the Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of TSU, said: “A very important event is taking place at the Tbilisi State University – it is restoration of a very good tradition between the two universities – the University of Jena and TSU – joint international conferences in ancient studies. We are glad that so many guests have expressed desire to participate in the conference. As it appeared, the research of this problem is backed by the Georgian government, scientific circles, a wide circle of other specialists, students. It once again proves TSU’s leading role in this field.”
Over 100 researchers from Georgia, Germany, Greece, France, USA, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Iran and Russia will submit their reports to the three-day conference.
The conference is being held through the cooperation of the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
In 2014 the specialists in ancient studies from the two universities restored an excellent tradition of multi-year cooperation – to hold joint international conferences. This tradition was started in 1966 after the two universities signed a historical agreement on mutual cooperation.
The conferences gained huge popularity among scientific circles and turned into one of the most important scientific forums in the field of ancient studies.
Nine conferences have been held in Jena and Tbilisi since 1969. After a 20-year pause, the 10th conference is being held in Tbilisi this year.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili welcomed the participants of the conference. “It is a great honor for me to return to the university walls; I am especially pleased to participate in the conference organized by my professors. I would like to extend my greetings to those scientists, who are revitalizing, researching and analyzing antique period, as well as those issues, which have a great influence on modernity; who are showing how we will develop tomorrow and helping us take more correct steps in future. It is just antique period, where one of the important values – value of freedom – is coming from,” President Margvelashvili said.
“TSU is proud to be hosting this top level conference. Today the situation is extremely turbulent in the world – cataclysms, climate change. The universality looks like a shelter; the conference works on eternal issues - the issues which are always topical and serve as the basis of modernity,” Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Giorgi Sharvashidze said.
Professor Rismag Gordeziani, Director of the Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of TSU, said: “A very important event is taking place at the Tbilisi State University – it is restoration of a very good tradition between the two universities – the University of Jena and TSU – joint international conferences in ancient studies. We are glad that so many guests have expressed desire to participate in the conference. As it appeared, the research of this problem is backed by the Georgian government, scientific circles, a wide circle of other specialists, students. It once again proves TSU’s leading role in this field.”
Over 100 researchers from Georgia, Germany, Greece, France, USA, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Iran and Russia will submit their reports to the three-day conference.
The conference is being held through the cooperation of the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
In 2014 the specialists in ancient studies from the two universities restored an excellent tradition of multi-year cooperation – to hold joint international conferences. This tradition was started in 1966 after the two universities signed a historical agreement on mutual cooperation.
The conferences gained huge popularity among scientific circles and turned into one of the most important scientific forums in the field of ancient studies.
Nine conferences have been held in Jena and Tbilisi since 1969. After a 20-year pause, the 10th conference is being held in Tbilisi this year.
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