Anna Kharanauli - Director

Anna Kharanauli is an Associate Professor of the Old Georgian Language and Textual Criticism at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (since 2006). She leads various BA and MA courses in the History of Georgian Philology, Translation Studies, and Textual Criticism.  She Is the supervisor of Ph.D. (“Philology of the Georgian Bible”) and MA (“Philological Studies in Medieval Eastern Christianity”) programs.

Fields of specialization: Textual Criticism of the Greek and Georgian Bible; Translation technique in the Antiquity and Middle Ages; Language of the Old Georgian translation of the Bible; Lexicography; Exegesis of the Bible in the Middle Ages.

She is a member of The European Academy of Science and Art; the Gelathi Academy of Science (Georgia); The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) (member of the executive committee); The Advisory Board of “De Septuaginta Investigationes”, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht.

Current project: „Old Georgian Versions of the Twelve Minor Prophets (Edition, Textual Study)“ (Shota Rustaveli national scientific foundation of Georgia, FR-21-3104).

email: ana.kharanauli@tsu.ge

Tina Dolidze - Committee Member

Professor of the Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javkhishvili Tbilisi State University; Head of the Byzantine Studies at TSU; Head of the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at TSU(2017-2022); supervisor of BA program Byzantine Philology, supervisor of Byzantine Philology in MA program Greek-Roman Studies and Ph.D. program Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at TSU; she delivers courses in Greek and Latin Patristics, Biblical Exegesis.

Fields of specialization: Patristic theology, Patristic exegesis of the Bible,  Late Antique Philosophy, Byzantine-Georgian theological reception history.

Research interests: Her research has focused on the Greek Patristics, especially on Origen’s hermeneutics and Theology of Cappadocian Fathers, language theory in Patristics, Biblical exegesis in Patristics, Patristic reception of Greek philosophy, Medieval Greek and Old Georgian theological terminology, Byzantine-Georgian Literary Contacts.

Membership: Association Internationale d' Études Patristiques/ International Association of Patristic Studies (member of the council and national correspondent); member of the Georgian National Committee of the International Association of Byzantine Studies; foreign correspondent of the International annual Adamantius, Pisa/Bologna; member of the editorial board of the International journal: PHASIS. Greek and Roman Studies, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; editor-in-chief of the series Patristic Studies in Georgia (TSU Insitute of Classical, Byzantine, and Modern Greek Studies).

Visiting scholarships: Rhein Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn (lecture), the University of Bremen (visiting fellow), the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (visiting fellow, lecture), Central European University, Budapest (visiting fellow, lecture), Alma Mater Studiorum - the University of Bologna (visiting fellow, lectures), University of Munich (Lüdwig-Maximilians-Universität) (visiting fellow, lecture), the University of Cambridge (visiting fellow), University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) (visiting fellow), University of Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität) (visiting fellow), the University of Saarland (visiting fellow), the University of Cologne (visiting fellow).

Current project: The Main Events and Dates of the Byzantine-Georgian Relationships (project sponsor: Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church).

email: tinatin.dolidze@tsu.ge

Giorgi Tcheishvili

Giorgi Tcheishvili – Doctor of History, Main research fellow of TSU’s Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology. He has multi-year experience in academic research on the historical geography of Georgia in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. He studies the evolution of Georgian state territory, as well as ethnocultural development in the border regions. G. Tcheishvili is an author of 70+ research papers; he is an editor and co-contributor of the Historical Atlas of Georgia.

email: gtcheishvili@hotmail.com

Zaza Skhirtladze

Zaza Skhirtladze graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1979. He holds Doctor’s Degree in Art History Since 2003 (Theses’ title – “Early Medieval Georgian Monumental Painting. Murals of the Church of Holy Cross in Telovani”).

Professor Skhirtladze currently is a director of the Institute of Art History and Theory, at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He is coordinating BA, MA, and PhD Programs in Art History and Theory. Professor Skhirtladze’s main research interests are Medieval Art of the Christian East and Georgia, cultural interrelations in the South Caucasus, desert monasticism. He is the author of several books, as well as numerous articles in the local and international periodicals, part of which was done during his scholarships in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, Warwick, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, in the College de France in Paris.

He participated in several International Symposia, workshops, and seminars in Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, United States of America. He was involved in several projects as a participant or the supervisor during the last three decades, among these: "Rescue Survey, Restoration and Analysis of Newly Discovered Early Christian Rock-Cut Monasteries in the Gareja Desert of Georgia" (1997-2000), "Restoration of the monuments in the Lavra of St. David, in the Gareja Desert" (2001), Grant for “Corpus of Georgian Murals” (2001-2003), “Corpus of Historical Figures in Georgian Art” (2003-2010), “The Caucasus and Byzantium from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages – Development of Innovative Curricula” (2012-2015), “Crossing Frontiers: Christians and Muslims and their Art in eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus (2015-2018).

email: zazaskhirtladze@gmail.com; zaza.skhirtladze@tsu.ge