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Interdisciplinary Postcolonial Studies: Implemented Activities

2nd International Conference “Colonial and Postcolonial Heritage: Past, Present, and Future”
Online Conference “Colonial and Postcolonial Heritage: Past, Present, and Future”
2nd International Conference “Colonial and Postcolonial Heritage: Past, Present, and Future”

On September 15, 2023, the second international scientific online conference “Colonial and Postcolonial Heritage: Past, Present and Future” was organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

During the conference, the following presentations were delivered:

  • Anatoly Oleksiyenko, The Education University of Hong Kong – War and Peace: Geopolitics and the Displacement of Ukrainian Academics (online).
  • Stefan Kiedroń, University of Wroclaw – Poland: a (Non-)Colonial Country?
  • Giorgi Tavadze, East European University – Post-Soviet Scholars: From the Spaces of Inaction to Public Thinking and Multiple Agoras.
  • Vladimer Liparteliani East European University/Durham University – American Soft Power as a Catalyst of the Rose Revolution in Georgia .
  • Tamar Chokoraia, Caucasus University – Anti-Western narrative in Soviet Socialist Realism Literature.
  • Lali Zakaradze, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University – Ivan Ilyin: from Antibolshevism to the ideology of Russian fascism.
  • Giorgi Masalkin, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University – Russian Exodus: What Does It Bring Us? The Russian Relocation Process and Its Impact on Georgia (online).
  • Giorgi Arkania, Center for the Contemporary History – Soviet Georgia: Colony or Allied Republic?.
  • Nikoloz Sarajishvili, Center for the Contemporary History – Historical Foundations of the Idea of “Friendship of Peoples”.
  • Razhden Chikhoria, Jan Kochanowski University – The Relationship Between the Processes of Transformation and Modernization in the Context of the Formation of the Political System of Georgia (online).
  • Irakli Chkhaidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University – In Search of ‘Real Democracy’: The Crisis of Liberalism and the Rise of Populism in Eastern Europe (online).
Online Conference “Colonial and Postcolonial Heritage: Past, Present, and Future”

On December 9-10, online conference “Colonial and Postcolonial Heritage: Past, Present, and Future” was held by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies.

During the conference the following titles were presented:

  • Tamar Chokoraia, Caucasus University, Shaping of the anti-western narrative in Soviet literature and periodicals;
  • Irakli Chkhaidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Nationalistic populism and west in contemporary Georgia;
  • Ana Khvedeliani, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Educational conception of Georgian Democratic Republic (1918-1921);
  • Otar Nikoleishvili, Akaki Tsereteli Kutaisi State University, American Press of 1990-1992 about the Conflict in so-called “South Ossetia”;
  • Vladimir Liparteliani, East European University, Soft Power Strategies of Russia and the West and their application in Georgia;
  • Razhden Chikhoria, Jan Kochanowski University, Political transformation of postcolonial Georgia in the context of theory of neopatrimonialism;
  • Lali Zakaradze, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Dissident philosophy in Georgia;
  • Nino Chikovani, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, “The time we live in now started that night” (April 9, 1989);
  • Stefan Kiedroń, University of Wrocław, Post-Soviet traces and emotions in Poland after 1989: selected examples;
  • Tamar Koplatadze, Queen Mary University of London, Postcolonial tendencies in post-soviet literature;
  • Giorgi Tavadze, East European University, Merab Mamardashvili’s thought in the context of postcolonial studies.

Conference proceedings will be published in 2022. Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies plans to organize analogous conference in the following year too.