Nino Chikovani

Nino Chikovani is the professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.  In 2006 she was the dean of Faculty of Humanities at Tbilisi State University. Presently she is the Head of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue at Tbilisi State University and a Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Tbilisi State University. Her research interests are: History of Georgian Culture in the Context of the Caucasus and Wider World; Intercultural Studies; Problems of Collective Memory and Identity. Nino is the author of multiple publications, such as: Culture and Religion in the South Caucasus (Course of the Lectures), “Nekeri” Press, Tbilisi, 2006; The ideas of Common Caucasian Home and Peaceful Caucasus at the beginning of the post-soviet Period, Materials of the First International Congress of Caucasiologists, Tbilisi, 2007; Ethnic and Religious Factors in the Process of Georgians’ Self-identification (Historical Perspective), Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for Sustainable Development. Proceedings of the International Conference, Moscow, September 13-16, 2007. Moscow, Publishing House RAPA, 2008, and many others.