ISET continued its Distinguished Professors Lecture Series, which it runs in cooperation with Tbilisi State University, on Thursday, January 29th. In this installment of the series, ISET hosted Professor Ramaz Kurdadze, Head of the Institute of the Georgian Language at Faculty of Humanities and Member of the Academic Board of Tbilisi State University. Prof. Kurdadze delivered a lecture and presentation titled, “The Kartvelian Languages and the Georgian Literary Language through the Centuries”.
Although a slightly unusual subject for a school of economics, ISET’s faculty and students, as well as the event’s other participants thoroughly enjoyed Prof. Kurdadze’s lecture.
On December 5, ISET hosted Azim Sadikov, IMF Resident Representative in Georgia. Mr. Sadikov presented the 2014 October Regional Economic Outlook.
In the beginning of the presentation Mr. Sadikov spoke about the current economic situation in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) region. He explained that the main reasons for economic slowdown in these countries are weaker domestic demand. Moreover, the global environment with almost 30% decline in oil prices and rising regional tensions have been significantly affecting Russia, the key trading and source of investment inflows for most of these countries.
On November 25, 2014 the Deputy Rector of Tbilisi State University, Professor Joseph Salukvadze who teaches at the Department of Human Geography at the faculty of Social and Political Sciences held a presentation on the topic “Changing Patterns of Urban Development in Post-soviet Tbilisi” at ISET.
In the beginning of the presentation Professor Salukvadze spoke about Tbilisi of the Soviet period and Tbilisi today, about its growth and urban planning. Afterwards, he distinguished and discussed three different phases of urbanism: the first one is the so-called “Do it yourself” phase covering the early/first transition phase (1990s), the second phase “Investor urbanism” covering the second transition (2000s) and the third phase - “Politically determined urbanism” revealing itself in the second half of 2000’s.
The presentation emphasized the role of state ownership of land in the urbanization process and the Government – Citizens – Business Interests triangle battling for the stake. There was a lively discussion and a number of interesting questions from the audience after the presentation.
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