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.

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. 

International conference program also includes cultural activities (excursion in Mtskheta and Zedazeni Monastery).