Scientia

The First International Scholarly Conference

(Challenges and Tendencies in Humanity)

November 25-26, 2021

Last year, Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts founded scholarly Journal — Scientia. The journal is published under the sponsorship of Tbilisi City Hall and Humanities Research Centre.

This year, the journal will host a scientific conference that aims to raise a number of problematic issues in Humanity.

Organizers of the conference are: Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts, Tbilisi City Hall and Humanities Research Centre.

There are several key topics within the conference:

• History and Archeology
• Archives and Historiography
• Textology and Codicology
• Epigraphy
• Digital Humanities
• Ethnology and Anthropology
• Restoration
• Cultural identities and social theories

The deadline to submit a conference paper is 25 October, 2021.

For participation, please fill conference registration form with indication of Name, Surname, scientific degree, affiliation, country and contact number. The registration form should be accompanied with a full abstract (3-4 pages in A4 size, font: Times New Roman 11).

Submitted papers will undergo double-blind peer review. Selected participants will be informed via email no later than October 30, 2021.
The conference will be held on November 25-26, 2021 in a hybrid format (taking into account the current epidemiological situation) – not only to the conference hall of the National Center for Manuscripts but also, we are using the Zoom platform. abstracts will be published and given to the participants in the conference days.

CONFERENCE APPLICATIONS AND QUESTIONS PLEASE SEND TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: conference.scientia@manuscript.ge

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

• MANUCHAR GUNTSADZE | KORNELI KEKELIDZE GEORGIAN NATIONAL CENTRE OF MANUSCRIPTS
• GOR MARGARIAN | ARMENIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
• HIROTAKE MAEDA | TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
• ZURAB TARGAMADZE | HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER
• VLADIMER KEKELIA | KORNELI KEKELIDZE GEORGIAN NATIONAL CENTRE OF MANUSCRIPTS
• KHATUNA BAINDURASHVILI | KORNELI KEKELIDZE GEORGIAN NATIONAL CENTRE OF MANUSCRIPTS
• SOPIO KADAGISHVILI | IVANE JAVAKHISHVILI HISTORY AND INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY
• SHOTA MATITASHVILI | CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
• LEVAN KOCHLAMAZASHVILI | ARNOLD CHIKOBAVA LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE
• MIKHEIL KARTVELISHVILI | IVANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY
• GURAM CHKHARTISHVILI | BATUMI ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
• TSITSINO GULEDANI | KORNELI KEKELIDZE GEORGIAN NATIONAL CENTRE OF MANUSCRIPTS
• TAMAZ GOGOLADZE | KORNELI KEKELIDZE GEORGIAN NATIONAL CENTRE OF MANUSCRIPTS