About the conference

General Information

VIII International Scientific Conference “Space, Society, Politics” is dedicated to 15 years anniversary of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

Considering the global pandemic situation, the organizing committee of the 8th International Scientific Conference – “Space, Society, Politics” has decided to conduct the conference in a non-attending format. We are facilitating our participants with the virtual presentation. 
The virtual presentations will be either prepared by the participants beforehand (15 minutes video records in mp4 format and presented during the conference by the organizing committee in an asynchronous format) or presented via zoom meeting synchronously. The online discussion sessions will be arranged during the conference 25-26 of June among the participants. Our technical team will assist participants in case of technical obstacles with the virtual presentations.
We welcome your participation! 

The period for submitting abstracts to the conference remains open till 30th of May.

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University is the oldest national university in Georgia and in the Caucasus, which serves to promote and advance European education and values in Georgia and in the region. The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences was founded in 2005 and combined the fields of social sciences from the different faculties. At present faculty unites six departments: Political Science, Journalism and Mass Communication, International Relations, Sociology and Social Work, Human Geography and Interdisciplinary Department.

There conference topics are not demarcated, it is rather oriented towards bringing the social and political scientists and researchers from all over the world together to share their innovative scientific and methodological achievements. The conference invites participants from the following fields: Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Public Policy/Administration, Journalism and Mass Communication, Social, Economic and Political Geography, Demography, Urbanism, Crisis and Conflicts, Gender studies, Nationalism and Ethnicity, Globalization, Sustainable Development and other social sciences.

Georgian, English and Russian are the working languages of the conference. 

Proceeding Publication

All accepted abstracts will be reviewed and published (online) in the conference abstracts proceeding.
All researchers are also invited to submit their full paper after the conference in international journal “Environment and Society” indexed by Google Scholar .