In 1 Act Presenting a century-old story of how a Georgian gentry Darispan wanders with one of his four unmarried daughters Karozhna from doorstep to doorstep, from friends to relatives, from acquaintances to neighbours to somehow secure a decent husband for her to ensure that her future is taken care of. This story, tr
Black Comedy in 1 Act What can happen when parents of two teenage boys meet to discuss the misbehavior of their children? Nothing special, you would say, they will meet, take coffee, or tea, or alcohol and have a civilized, soothing conversation about how new generation develops, about how times change and about how th
On April 27-28, Ilia State University (ISU) will host the 10th Natalia Zazashvili International Annual Conference “Trauma and Society: Resilience and Coping in Times of Mass Crises”. The conference is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) and the 15th
Comedy in 1 Act Comedy full of absurdity and intricate storyline, where young men knit a web of thousand lies for their loved ones, where a young man can suddenly turn into Donna Rosa, where the young man dressed as Donna Rosa can charm a colonel, who, in turn, can receive a visit from his first love, Donna Rosa, who i
Drama in 1 Act What does it feel like to live in Georgia, when you are different? How can you oppose to the idifference of friends, family, society and country? How can you survive and does the survival matter at all, when no one needs you, no one understands you? One tragic story, that Alex Chighvinadze wr
Comedy in 1 Act What happens when you start building your life according to other’s opinions?! When you try to present yourself through derogation of others and create an ideal family only for others to see… Are there any ideal families at all?! Or there still are Václav Havel’s play char
Comedy in 1 Act The comedy is centered around the drunkard good-for-nothing Sganarelle who the entire world mistakenly believes to be a miraculous doctor able to treat any disease. “The patients” propose him vast sums of money in exchange for a phenomenal medicine, which, of course, does not exist. Sganarel
Drama in 2 Acts When it is winter and war is raging, human beings look for warmth and food for survival. Yet what will happen when everything around has already been burnt and only books remain? What is more important – books or survival?! Translator: Tamar KhosruashviliDirector: Luka IntskirveliDesigne
March 31, a delegation of the Max Weber Foundation (Bonn, Germany) led by the Managing Director of Foundation, Dr. Harald Rosenbach, visited Ilia State University and met with the rector Nino Doborjgenidze and professors Oliver Reisner and Tilmann Kulke. The members of delegation, Dr. Sandra Dahlke, Dr.
Professor Axel Brandenburg received his PhD at the University of Helsinki in 1990. After two postdocs at Nordita in Copenhagen and at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder/Colorado, he returned to Nordita as Assistant Professor for just over a year befo
Shalva Barjadze, an ISU associate professor and researcher at the Institute of Zoology, together with Eter Maghradze, an assistant researcher at the same Institute, and laboratory assistants Lado Shavadze and Eleonora Kiria, explored caves of the Moravian Karst (Svážná studna and Daňkův žlíbek) in
Prof. Helmut Friess Professor of Surgery. Director of the Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Since 2007, while serving as director, Prof. Friess has continued to be an active clinician and researcher. His primary research interests include the mechan