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).