Keynote Speakers
Ramaz Kurdadze (Ph.D.) Professor, the Head of the Scientific Educational Institute of the Georgian Language at the Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Gori State Pedagogical Institute after N. Baratashvili (1983) as well as Post-graduate courses of TSU at the chair of Modern Georgian Language (1986). Ramaz Kurdadze defended the candidate dissertation entitled “Kartlian Dialect of Liakhvi and Prone Gorge of the Georgian Language” (1987) and PhD dissertation entitled “Vowel Alternating Verbs in Modern Georgian Language” (1999). R. Kurdadze published 3 monographs, more than 100 scholarly works and 4 monographs together with the co-authors. His major research interests are: Georgian verb, Georgian dialectology, the issues of teaching Georgian as a second or foreign language, Georgian slang.
At VI INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES – "KARTVELIAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MODERNITY, PERSPECTIVES" – he will talk about The University Tradition and the Perspectives of the Teaching, Research and Development of the Kartvelian Languages, Co-authored by Maia Lomia (associate Professor at the Institute of the Georgian Language, at TSU Faculty of Humanities) and Ketevan Margiani (associate Professor at the Institute of the Georgian Language, at TSU Faculty of Humanities).
ORCID: 0009-0001-2741-4292
Manana Tandashvili is Professor at the Institute of Comparative Linguistics, the Head of the Caucasian Studies department at Goethe University Frankfurt (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), well-known both in Georgia and in leading scientific centers of Europe owing to her scholarly projects, paper presentations and publications. Prof. Tandashvili has been trained at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgian Kartvelological school and still maintains close professional relations with her Georgian counterparts, having been well reflected by the project, led by her (together with Prof. J. Gippert) and supported by Volkswagen Stiftung: Armazi (Caucasian Languages and Cultures: Electronic Documentation; 1999-2002: http://armazi:uni-frrankfurt.de), Language Situation in Present-day Georgia (2006-2009), National corpus of the Georgian language, Digital Rustaveli Studies, etc. As a result of the latter project, Georgian linguists published a number of monographs.
At VI INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES – "KARTVELIAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MODERNITY, PERSPECTIVES" – she will talk about The European Integration of Kartvelian Studies in the Context of Open Sciences.
ORCID: 0009-0005-7812-9124
Karina Vamling is Professor of Caucasus Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Sweden. She holds a PhD in General Linguistics from Lund University. Her research interests, with a regional focus on Georgia and the Northwest Caucasus, include ethnolinguistic minorities and language policy, linguistic typology, language and culture. Vamling has published extensively on the Kartvelian and Circassian languages, with four monographs and seven edited volumes. She is the recipient of several awards and distinctions, such as Supporter of the Georgian Language (Caucasus University, 2024), The Rettig Prize (Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2022), The Arnold Chikobava Prize (Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1998), and The Swedish Government’s Research Committee Prize to Merited Young Researchers (1993). At VI INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES – "KARTVELIAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MODERNITY, PERSPECTIVES" – she will talk about the language use among Svanetians in the Late 1990s. A Questionnaire Study in Kvemo Svaneti.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3415-203X
Ioana Chitoran is a professor of linguistics at Paris Cité University. Her research is on the interface of phonology and phonetics. She studies how perception and production shape phonological representations. The main focus of her work has been on the study of phonotactics, on the syllable organization and representation, and on assessing the implications of the theoretical models of Articulatory Phonology. Her research questions rely on empirical data from Caucasian languages (Georgian, Lezgi) and from Romance languages, primarily Romanian. At VI INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES – "KARTVELIAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MODERNITY, PERSPECTIVES" – she will present the project about The Timing in Syllable Onsets in Georgian, co-authored by Caroline Q. Crouch.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0773-2680
Caroline Q. Crouch holds a PhD in Linguistics and is an invited lecturer of Linguistics at Rice University (USA). Her dissertation is about Georgian syllable structures. She investigates the relationship between the sonority shape and various articulatory timing relationships between the consonants. At VI INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES – "KARTVELIAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MODERNITY, PERSPECTIVES" – she will present the project about The Timing in Syllable Onsets in Georgian, co-authored by Prof. Ioana Chitoran.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5878-8505