Thamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Empire of Trebizond
4 March 2020 @ 17:00 - 18:00
Eka Tchkoidze, Associate Professor of History at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, is visiting IHU as an Erasmus+ visiting scholar to discuss History with us. It is with great joy that we announce her lecture, in Greek, titled: Thamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Empire of Trebizond, which will take place on Wednesday 4 March 2020 at the International Hellenic University (Thermi), at 17:00.
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Speakers’ CV
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 has been awarded fellowships from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. In 2007-2008 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University (Program in Hellenic Studies). In 2008-2013 she held the position of assistant professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Ilia State University. Since 2013 she is an Associate Professor of History at the faculty of Arts and Sciences of Ilia State University, Tbilisi (Georgia). In 2012-2013 having the joint scholarship of the Onassis Foundation and the Plato Academy she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Athens. More on her at https://faculty.iliauni.edu.ge/arts/eka-tchkoidze/?lang=en
