• Internationalization of research in Georgia (1991-2021) and its influence on the academic activity of the faculty (funded by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia)
• Merab Mamardashvili’s thought in the context of postcolonial studies
• Towards placeful university: places and spaces in and outside of the university

I will gladly cooperate with researchers from other institutions on the following research topics:

• Building placeful university through experimental pedagogy (place as a centre of meaning and attachment, exploring place-worlds, creating new places and spaces within university, discovering others and building existential trust, ontological education, philosophical geography etc.)
• Interdisciplinary postcolonial studies (with emphasis on post-Soviet space)
• Knowledge socialism and how to advance its principles in practice
• Economic models of higher education vs social models of higher education
• Internationalisation of research, teaching & curriculum, internationalisation at home
• Integration of research and teaching
• Educational policy and governance

2010-2013 – PhD (Grigol Robakidze University), summa cum laude. PhD thesis title: Philosophical geography. About the foundation of a new philosophical discipline (Supervisors: Prof. Tengiz Iremadze, Prof. Helmut Schneider).

2008-2010 – Master of Philosophy (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University), summa cum laude. Main field of study: philosophy of life. Master’s thesis: Criticism of Modernity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Twilight of the Idols’ (supervisor: Prof. Tengiz Iremadze)

2003-2007 – Bachelor of Arts in Humanities (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University). Main field of study: philosophy.

Philosophy of Higher Education: Contemporary Challenges and Perspectives, Tbilisi: Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022 (in Georgian).

The Phenomenon of ‘Homo sovieticus’ in the Context of Soviet Ideological Dimension: A Philosophical Analysis, Tbilisi: Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021 (Georgian/English).

Philosophical Geography: History, Problems and Perspectives. Tbilisi: Publishing House “Nekeri”, 2016 (in Georgian).

Shatili from the Perspective of Philosophical Geography. Tbilisi: Publishing House “Nekeri”, 2013 (Georgian/English).

Co-authored Books

politikuri pilosopia. narkvevebi [Political Philosophy. Essays], vol. 1, with G. Khuroshvili. Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2016; vol. 2, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2017 (in Georgian).

Handbooks

Introduction to Political Philosophy, compiled by Giorgi Tavadze, Tbilisi: Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022 (in Georgian).

Edited/compiled books

Universities in Motion: Challenges and Responsibilities, edited by Shalva Machavariani and Giorgi Tavadze, Tbilisi: Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022 (Georgian/English).

Religion and Science: Dialogue, Conflict, or Isolation? Compiled by G. Tavadze, ed. by M. Sanaia, Tbilisi: Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021 (in Georgian).

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. Translated by V. Gorgisheli. Tbilisi: “Akti” Publishing House, 2020 (in Georgian).

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ. Translated by V. Gorgisheli. Tbilisi: “Akti” Publishing House, 2020 (in Georgian).

Jean Grondin, Philosophy of Religion. Translated by D. Labuchidze, Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2018. Co-edited with T. Iremadze (in Georgian).

Francis Bacon, New Atlantis. Translated by G. Khuroshvili. Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2016 (in Georgian).

Hannah Arendt, What is Authority? Translated by G. Khuroshvili. Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2015 (in Georgian).

Tengiz Iremadze, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Perspectives of Its Interpretation, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2015 (in Georgian).

Philosophie und Sozialtheorie (series editors: T. Iremadze, U. R. Jeck, H. Schneider), vol. 1: Leben verstehen (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2014). Co-edited with G. Khuroshvili and G. Gigauri.

Political Essays of American Enlighteners (Tbilisi: Grigol Robakidze University Press, 2013). Co-edited with T. Iremadze and L. Zakaradze.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Tbilisi: Grigol Robakidze University Press, 2011). Co-edited with T. Iremadze and L. Zakaradze.

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Can science be useful for religion? A cultural anthropology perspective, in: Religion and Science: Dialogue, Conflict, or Isolation? Compiled by G. Tavadze, ed. by M. Sanaia, Tbilisi:  Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021, pp. 131-151 (in Georgian).

Academy of Gelati as a pivotal topos of Caucasian philosophy and its importance for Georgian philosophical thought, in: U. R. Jeck, T. Iremadze, Veritas et subtilitas. Truth and Subtlety in the history of philosophy. Essays in memory of Burkhard Mojsisch (1944-2015), Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, Bd. 59, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2018, pp. 135-148.

The birth of the universities in Middle Ages, in: Metropolitan Grigoli, U. R. Jeck, T. Iremadze (eds.), The Mission of the Modern University, Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2018, pp. 55-77 (in Georgian).

Philosopher from the Cave: Merab Mamardashvili on Freedom, in: T. Iremadze (ed.), The Idea of Freedom in Philosophy, Theology, and Social Sciences. Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2016, pp. 164-178 (in Georgian).

Gelati as a Pivotal Topos of Caucasian Philosophy and its Importance to Georgian Philosophical Thought, in: T. Iremadze (ed.), Philosophy and Theology in Medieval Georgia. Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2016, pp. 179-193 (in Georgian).

 New Russian imperialism and Georgia: Russia’s violent spatial politics, in: T. Iremadze (ed.), New Russian Imperialism and Caucasus, Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2015, pp. 69-96 (in Georgian).

Gelati and the notion of Caucasian Philosophy in the context of Intercultural Philosophy, in: T. Iremadze (ed.), Modern Georgian Philosophy and Its Major Representatives, Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2014, pp. 136-156 (in Georgian).

Two Poles of Urban Sociology: from Peaceful Urbanism to New Military Urbanism (Georg Simmel – Louis Wirth – Stephen Graham), in: T. Iremadze (ed.), pilosopiuri urbanistika [Philosophical Urbanistic], Tbilisi: “Nekeri”, 2014, pp. 97-121 (in Georgian).

Watsuji Tetsurô’s Climatic Philosophy and its Importance to Philosophical Geography, Philosophie und Sozialtheorie (series editors: Tengiz Iremadze, Udo Reinhold Jeck, Helmut Schneider), Bd. 1: Leben verstehen, 2014, pp. 103-109.

Martin Heidegger and Watsuji Tsetsurô: place, space and climate, in: T. Iremadze, G. Tevzadze (eds.), aghmosavleti da dasavleti. interkulturuli da interdisciplinuri kvlevebi [East and West. Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Studies],  Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2012, pp. 133-152 (in Georgian).

Aristotle’s reception in Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought, in: T. Iremadze (ed.), Philosophy in Global Change”. Jubilee volume dedicated to the 65^th anniversary of Burkhard Mojsisch, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2011, pp. 307-317 (in Georgian).

Merab Mamardashvili’s reception abroad (philosophical encyclopedias and dictionaries), in: T. Iremadze (ed.), evropuli pasuxismgebloba [European Responsibility], Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2011, pp. 76-92 (in Georgian).

Metacritic of understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Polemics between Grigol Robakidze and David Kasradze in the context of current research on Nietzsche, in: T. Iremadze, M. Tavkhelidze (eds.), grigol robakidze da tanamedrove azrovneba [Grigol Robakidze and Contemporary Thought], Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2011, pp. 44-58 (in Georgian).

The problem of freedom in Herbert Spencer’s thought in the context of relationship between the state and the individual, in: T. Iremadze (ed.), ra aris tavisufleba? didi moazrovneebi tavisuflebis arsis shesakheb [What is Freedom? Great Thinkers on the essence of Freedom], Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2010, pp. 62-90 (in Georgian).

Perpetual peace: unrealizable utopia or political ideal? Considerations on Immanuel Kant’s “Toward Perpetual Peace”, in: Immanuel Kant, Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch. Translated by G. Tavadze, edited by Z. Rukhadze, Tbilisi: “Akti” Publishing House, 2020, pp. 9-86 (in Georgian).

“Supposing that truth is a woman”: Friedrich Nietzsche beyond Good and Evil, in: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. Translated by V. Gorgisheli. Edited by G. Tavadze. Tbilisi: “Akti” Publishing House, 2020, pp. 7-30 (in Georgian).

Nietzsche’s “The Anti-Christ” and the history split in two, in: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ. Translated by V. Gorgisheli. Edited by G. Tavadze. Tbilisi: “Akti” Publishing House, 2020, pp. 7-18 (in Georgian)

Friedrich Nietzsche and his ‘Twilight of the Idols’, in: Friedrich Nietzche, Twilight of the Idols, translated by G. Tavadze, edited by T. Chokoraia, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2018, pp. 5-27 (in Georgian).

John Dewey: Champion of Radical Democracy, in: John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, translated by G. Tavadze, edited by T. Iremadze and L. Zakaradze, Tbilisi: Grigol Robakidze University Press, 2014, pp. 6-18 (in Georgian).

The Power of Maps. Gelati and the Concept of “Caucasian Philosophy” in the Context of Intercultural Philosophy, scholarly series: East and West. Dialogue between the Cultures, vol. 2, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2013, 52 pp. (in Georgian)

Thomas Paine: struggler for freedom and idependence’, in: T. Paine, saghi azri [Common Sense], translated by G. Tavadze, edited by T. Iremadze, L. Zakaradze and D. Labuchidze, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2012, pp. 9-22 (in Georgian).

Dynamite man. Friedrich Nietzsche’s personality and his task according to Ecce homo, in: Friedrich Nietzsche, rcheuli txzulebebi. tomi pirveli. Ecce homo. rogor xdeba adamiani is, rac is aris [Selected works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 1, Ecce homo: how one becomes what one is], translated by G. Tavadze, edited by T. Iremadze and L. Zakaradze, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2011, pp. 227-242 (in Georgian).

‘Carl Schmitt’s perspectivistic Philosophical Geography’, in: C. Schmitt, xmeleti da zgva. msoplio-istoriuli ganazreba, [Land and Sea. A World-Historical Reflection], translated by G. Tavadze, edited by T. Iremadze, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2010, pp. 7-44 (in Geor­gian).

‘Philosophical Geography: importance, contempo­raneity, perspectives’, in: H. Schneider, pilosopiuri geograpia [Philosophical Geography], translated by G. Tavadze, edited by T. Iremadze, Tbilisi: Nekeri, 2010, pp. 22-43 (in Georgian).

Scholarships/expeditions/major research grants/Public lectures

U.S. Embassy Book Translation Program (2022-2023) grant: Brian Bix, Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, 8th  Edition. – Editor.

Public lectures at the University of Wrocław: “Homo sovieticus in the perspective of the 21^st century” (02.12.2019); “Georgia from the eyes of Europeans and Europe from the eyes of Georgians” (04.12.2019).

Erasmus Mundus Action 2 postdoctoral fellowship (10.09-2015-10.03.2016). Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland). Research topic: Place and Politics.

Research expedition in Khevsureti, project title: Place and Identity (Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Grigol Robakidze University), 15.07-26.07.2015.

Research expedition in Khevsureti, project title: Place and Identity (Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Grigol Robakidze University), 19.07.-27.07.2014; 27.08-31.08.2014.

U.S. Embassy Book Translation Program (2013-2014) grant: John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, translator.

Research expedition in Khevsureti, project title: Place and Identity (Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Grigol Robakidze University), 19.07.-04.08.2013.

Research expedition in Khevsureti, project title: Place and Identity (Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Grigol Robakidze University), 01.07.-05.09.2012.

U.S. Embassy Book Translation Program (2012-2013) grant: Political Essays of American Enlighteners, – Editor (with T. Iremadze and L. Zakaradze).

U.S. Embassy Book Translation Program (2011-2012) grant: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, – Translator.

Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) fellow (Rolf und Ursula Schneider-Stiftung) – 01.07.-30.09.2011

U.S. Embassy Book Translation Program (2011) grant: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, – Editor (with T. Iremadze and L. Zakaradze).