Giga Zedania

Giga Zedania is a Georgian philosopher and academic, and also used to be the Rector of Ilia State University.[1] He has published extensively on philosophy and Georgian social and political developments.[1] He ran Ilia State University from 2014 to 2022.[2] Since 2022, Zedania is the director of the Center for Advanced Studies at Ilia State University.[2] He has worked as a council member of the Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory and as the president of the Black Sea University Network.[2] He has also been a fellow at the Open Society Institute, a member of the Shota Rustaveli Science Foundation in Georgia, and since 2022 an Honorary Member of the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.[2]

He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), a master's degree from Central European University (Hungary, Budapest), and has previously also studied at Tbilisi State University and for one year at Bard College in the United States.[3]

Among his major publications is Modernization in Georgia: Theories, Discourses and Realities (Peter Lang, 2018). He has previously written on religion and nationalism, and on Georgian and German political thinkers and philosophers.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Giga Zedania". Davis Center, Harvard. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Prof. Dr. Giga Zedania - ZfL Berlin". www.zfl-berlin.org. Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Giga Zedania" (PDF). Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  4. ^ Zedania, Giga (2011). ""The rise of religious nationalism in Georgia."". Identity Studies in the Caucasus and the Black Sea Region. 3. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  5. ^ Zedania, Giga (2011). ""Nationalismus und Religion in Georgien."". Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West. 6.