Summer School in Georgian Studies, Tblisi

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PROGRAM INFO.- Summer School in Georgian Studies, Tbilisi, 6-11 August

ANNOUNCEMENT

We are happy to announce the Summer School in Kartvelian Studies for
non-Georgians to be held from 6 July to 11 August, 2002.

In a broad sense Kartvelian (Georgian) Studies (Kartvelology) embraces
Georgian culture, history and all fields of the humanities: linguistics,
literary criticism, art, archaeology, folklore, ethnography, source study.
Georgia, Sakartvelo, successor to ancient Colchis and Iberia, lies at the
boundary of Europe and Asia, east of the Black Sea, in the south-western
part of the Caucasus. Today too it continues to serve as a geographical,
economic and cultural bridge between East and West.

The Summer School in Kartvelian Studies is organized by the Centre for
Kartvelian Studies and sponsored by the Government of Georgia, Tbilisi State
University and by the Fund for Kartvelian Studies.

The School will offer intensive instruction in Modern Georgian, with account
of the level of the mastery of the language by the participants. They can
also attend lectures on Georgian history, literature, language and art and
become acquainted with Georgia's cultural and historical past and her
present achievements.

The five-week course at the summer school costs $1500 per student. This
includes accommodation (in a student's dormitory or at a private apartment),
board, lectures and seminars, and cultural program (excursions to the
countryside, visiting museums, seeing Georgian films, etc.). The Center
ensures meeting the attendants of Summer School at the airport and seeing
them to their place of stay. The attendants pay the travel costs (arrival in
Tbilisi and departure from Tbilisi), and medical aid, if needed.

This year the costs of instruction and board of foreign students who cannot
pay the whole cost will be met by the Fund for Kartvelian Studies. However,
in all cases the attendants of the Summer School, including the students,
are expected to contribute not less than one third of the above-mentioned
course cost as a charity to the Fund of Kartvelian Studies, for the Summer
School in Kartvelian Studies is financed in the main by this Charity Fund.

Those who wish to attend the Summer School should communicate with the
Centre for Kartvelian Studies by 1 May, 2002 and await further information
from us.

Address:
Centre for Kartvelian Studies, TSU
1, Chavchavadze Ave.
380028 Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel.: +(995 32) 290833, Fax: +(995 32) 252501,
E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]

Sincerely,

Prof. Elguja Khintibidze
Director of the Centre for Kartvelian Studies

P.S. In the words of a participant of the Kartvelological Summer School: "I
learnt about the Summer School at my university and I decided to arrive. My
decision stunned everyone - my parents, friends, my professors. The view of
Georgia is hazy in my country. We know almost nothing about Georgia and the
only thing we have heard is that one must not go there because it is a zone
of ethnic conflicts, unrest, instability and dire economic hardship. Imagine
my surprise, elation and joy to find that none of the above points came
true. Furthermore, great warmth and love, selfless kindness and boundless
hospitality - occasionally quite unexpected and curious, exceptional people,
beautiful city and country". (Sachiko Iokoi, Osaka University of Foreign
Languages, Japan. August, 2000).