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The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), the TSU Museum, and the TSU Library are organizing a scientific conference and exhibition on April 15-16 titled " "Traditional Georgian Farming Culture and Modernity." The event is dedicated to the Day of Georgian Ethnology and Anthropology. The exhibition will open on April 15 at 12:00 p.m. in the Tbilisi State University Museum's exhibition hall.
The exhibits will include: old documents and inscriptions dating back to the 16th-18th centuries, photographs and manuscripts, commemorative items, unique varieties of grain, and ethnographic material, as well as monographs and books dedicated to this issue. The exhibits reveal the continuous traditions of grain culture, including rituals and uses that have endured for centuries in Georgia. These inscriptions, photographs, manuscripts, books, commemorative items, unique varieties of grain, archaeological and ethnographic materials are preserved in the National Museum of Georgia, the TSU Museum and Library, the National Archives of Georgia and the National Center of Manuscripts, the National Botanical Garden of Georgia, and the Institute of Botany of Georgia. The exhibition was prepared with the assistance of these organizations.
The exhibition exposition and guide were prepared by Manana Liluashvili, curator of educational programs at the Tbilisi State University Museum; Khatuna Chugoshvili, head of the Shota Rustaveli Central Reading Room of TSU; and Tea Kashia, senior librarian.
On April 15, Prof. Ketevan Khutsishvili of the TSU Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology will give a keynote speech to a large audience on the long history of wine and wheat cultivation in Georgia, as well as their ritual significance.
On April 16, at 12:00, a scientific conference will begin in TSU Building 1, Auditorium 115. Prof. Lia Akhaladze, Prof. Rosetta Gujejiani, Prof. Teimuraz Gvimradze and Dr. Nodar Shoshitashvili will present reports. In the afternoon, a discussion will be held on the topic: “Raising Awareness of Spiritual and Social Culture Related to Georgian Wheat, Its Cultivation and Use.”