“Exchange of Knowledge in the Academic Cultures in Europe and Black Sea Courtiers and between them through Migration”

International Conference “Exchange of Knowledge in the Academic Cultures in Europe and Black Sea Courtiers and between them through Migration (the period before I World War)”  was held in Skopje, Macedonia in the frame of the  EU programme Horizon 2020-  “KEAC-BSR Exchange of Knowledge and the Academic Cultures in the Humanities: Europe and the Black Sea Basin, XVIII-XXIcc”. Prof. Tamar Siradze, BSU Deputy Rector, Prof. of BSU Marine Aroshidze,  Associate professors Nino Aroshidze, Tamaz Putkaradze, Manuchar Loria and PhD student Ketevan Putkaradze participated in the mentioned one week event  the aim of which was to discuss actual topics such as: the Balkans and Caucasus at the crossings of migration and the exchange of knowledge, exiled academic elite in the fight for the development of the national educational institutions, academic migration and scientific achievements. 

The participants of the International Scientific Conference also discussed the following issues: Travelling and documenting in the Black Sea Countries, outstanding women and their role in the scientific space of the Black Sea Countries, Movement of the academic intellectuals in the pre-war period.

The International Conference involved the representatives of the scientific academia from the project participant countries including Austria, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Azerbaijan and Macedonia.

Professor Marine Aroshidze and Associate Professor Nino Aroshidze presented the article “Linguistic Status and Linguistic Policy in the Light of the Migration Processes in Caucasus of the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries”; The title of the research paper of Prof. Tamar Siradze was „The Role of the Women Organizations in the Development of the Idea of the University”. Ketevan Putkaradze and Tamaz Putkaradze presented the article “Kartvelian Studies Abroad in the Context of Exchange of the Academic Knowledge”;  the title of the paper of Manuchar Loria was  „Ethnographic Sketches in Georgian Cinematographic and Photographic Art”.