The Union of Tbilisi Municipal Museums aims at generating a new role of museums in modern society, which would combine the preservation of traditional museum activities and the development of the educational aspect through the sharing of the knowledge with each interested person. In the XX century, the whole art was limited to strict ideological frameworks. However, despite the dictatorship and severe ideological pressure, theatre and painting, literature and other fields of art based on the national roots and values were still developing.
Traditional museum life is unthinkable without the analysis of the epoch and the context. Georgian art contains a wide variety of topics for studies and researches, including a complex discussion of the personal and professional life of the biographies of the artists in the context of the epoch, cultural and socio-political environment, which is important for the study and analysis of the history of culture. The task of the research is to present an artist, an epoch, different contexts of an environment, and contemporary cultural processes in a single line.
The second international conference – Georgian Culture and XX Century, will be held under the aegis of the Union of Tbilisi Museums in the autumn of 2021.
Participation in the conference requires submitting the following documents until August 20, 2021:
– Electronic version of registration form (attachment);
– CV;
– Abstract in Georgian and English Languages.
Participation is eligible for individuals with academic degrees as well as students of doctoral programs.
Organizational Committee will inform the applicant on acceptance to participation as well as the details of the publication of the conference papers no later than september 1.
Conference papers should include a scientific finding, and never been published or presented at any other scientific events.
The electronic version of the registration form: https://bit.ly/3heXkfv
Aim of the Conference:
– Bringing together of scientific findings;
– Facilitate cooperation of Georgian and foreign scientists;
– Facilitate interdisciplinary and intercultural research activities;
– Integration of research outcomes into the national and international networks.
Scientific Scope of the Conference:
– History of Arts;
– History of Music;
– Ballet;
– History of Theatre;
– History of cinema;
– Choreology;
– Study and management of culture;
– Culturology (Museumology, Archeology, Theory, and History of Culture);
– Cultural heritage and restoration/conservation.
Format of the Conference Paper:
– Font: AcadNusx (for Georgian text) /Time New Roman (for English text)
– Font size: 12
– Spacing: 1,5
– Volume: 5000 words (max. 1.5 pages)
– Literature citation format: (Scruton, 2019:23)
– Bibliography format (concluding the paper): number, author, publication name, publisher, town, year (12. Roger Scruton, Modern Arts, Bloomsbury, London, 2019).
The first international conference – Georgian Culture and the XX Century, was hosted by the Union of Tbilisi Museums on September 19-20, 2019. It was a two-day conference dedicated to analyzing the real facts and historical documents.
Participants of the Conference presented the scientific papers on the epoch, the culture, and the artists working in the various fields of art under the totalitarian regime, which laid the foundation for the ongoing processes in the culture of the XX century.
Conference papers were published as a collection.