29 mars 2018
Eka Tchkoidze received her first degree in Philology at I. Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi (1998), and her M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in Byzantine History at the University of Ioannina (Greece). She was awarded fellowships from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece and the Alexander S. Onassis. In 2007-2008 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. Since 2008 she is a professor of History at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).
Main areas of Research interest: Georgian hagiography as a source for Byzantine political and cultural history; Byzantine and Georgian Hagiography (comparative Study); Monasticism (emergence, development, today’s tendencies); Political, social, economic history of the 19th century (Imperial Russia/Caucasus).
Cycle de cours
Questions of Caucasian and Georgian History
- 29 mars 2018, 14h30, local ERAS 53
Islam in the Caucasus (especially in the 19th century)
- 29 mars 2018, 15h30, local ERAS 53
Georgian monasteries outside Georgia (medieval period)
Ouvert à tous. Les leçons seront données en anglais.
Info : bernard.coulie@uclouvain.be