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From February 11 to 22, 2019, the Prospectus defenses for PhD students took place at Ilia State University’s School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Natural Sciences and Medicine. Among those PhD students were Ana Lolua (History), Nana Khetsuriani (Economics), Ekaterine Nanitashvili (Linguistics), Svetlana Berikashvili (Linguistics), Eka Gurgenashvili (Physics), Mariam Albekioni (Physics), Salome […]

On December 5, 2018 Levan Cheishvili gave a presentation on his doctoral research project at the Doctoral Forum. Levan’s research specifically focuses on the subject “Nanoarchitectonics and nanomechanics of ‘epileptic neuron’”, on which he is writing his doctoral thesis within the frame of the “Cellular Neuroscience PhD program” at Ilia State University. With his presentation […]

On November 7, 2018 Kristine Margvelashvili presented her paper to fellow doctoral students at Ilia State University using Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) format. She presented one slide diplaying the structure of her PhD thesis. Margvelashvili’s research topic is church and state relations in Orthodox Europe, and is comprised of three subcategories: Byzantine era and concept […]

The Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral Program is the first international structured doctoral program at Ilia State University (ISU) and at the same time a cooperation project with the Georg-August-University of Göttingen (UGOE). In this program twelve doctoral students are working on their dissertations under the specific conditions of a Cotutelle procedure. In addition to […]

On 20th and 21st of September 2018 the international workshop: “Voters and political Parties in post-communist Europe: New Challenges and Opportunities” took place at Södertörn University, Stockholm/Sweden. The workshop was organized by the Center for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) of Södertörn University. Over 20 PhD students, from all over Europe gathered to discuss populist […]