Public lecture on "Right to Privacy in the Era of Transparency and Mass Surveillance" will be held on October 26 at 15:00 Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Ganna Yudkivska will speak about a development of the notion of privacy and its reasonable expectations, growing requirements to informational space, ri
Creation of the Graduate Curricula in Peace Studies in Georgia (PESTUGE) This project contributes to the enhancement of teaching as well as training activities in Peace Studies at graduate level for students in Tbilisi and regional universities in conflict-affected areas. Academic courses taught at 4 HEIs and trainin
On 26 October 2018, at 18:00, ISU (Room A101) Professor Paul Manning, of the Trent University, will be speaking about The City of Gardens: Three Garden Heterotopias of Old Tbilisi Long ago, Tbilisi, the old walled city that is also known as K’ala, was ringed with suburbs, Garetubani, which were filled with garden
On November 8 2018, at 11:00, Stylianos Koulouris, Scientific Cooperation Officer at European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), will deliver a presentation on Introduction to Food Safety and Risk Assessment at ISU G 106. Stylianos Koulouris supervises European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme (EU-FORA) and is resp
Being a participant of the Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral Program herself Kristine Margvelashvili was appointed as the first rep of the doctoral students participating in this program. Her term as rep will last until the end of March 2019. During this period of time Kristine will voice the particip
On 22 October 2018, at 18:00, ISU Ligamus Book House will host Professor Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht’s public lecture called “Does Silicon Valley Have and Need An Epistemology? "If Hegel was to re-appear in the 21st century to ask his obsessive question where does spirit dwell?, his attention would be capt
A public lecture on Sustainable Forest Management: Growth Models will be held on 16 October 2018, at 11:00, at ISU G 106. Speakers: Gigia Aleksidze – Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of GeorgiaCriteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management in Georgia. Lars Drössler –
From 25 to 27 October 2018, ISU will host an international conference The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space. The event was initiated by Professor Alexis Nuselovici of the University of Aix-Marseille (France). Organizers: Professor Mzagho Dokhturishvili, Director of the Research Centre Romance Intercompherensio
On 23 October 2018, at 18:00, Dr. William V. Braun and Dr. Konrad Karcz will deliver public lectures at ISU G106. William V. Braun, Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, will speak about Complications of Bariatric Procedures. Each method used in bariatric surgery has pros and cons. Dr. Braun wil
On 23 and 24 October ISU will host a conference Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921): In Search of Form and Content organized by the ISU Institute of Social and Cultural Studies. The conference aims to highlight the hitherto understudied themes and revisit the methodology and perspectives through which the Social
An exhibition 'So this is the strong Sex.' Women in Psychoanalysis’ from the Sigmund Freud Museum will be launched on 19 October 2018, at 18:30, at ISU B201. Hosted by the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna from October 2015 to July 2016, the exhibition has enjoyed a successful tour around Europe. The exh
ISU Researchers’ Paper Published in Nature Astronomy A joint paper by Georgian (ISU), Indian, Polish, Italian, British and American scientists on the propagation of pseudo-shocks in the solar atmosphere was published in Nature Astronomy. The phenomenon having been observed for the first time, the proj