The Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Ethnology of Caucasus Lavrenti Janiashvili and Senior Research Fellow Natia Jalabadze
participated at the Georgian-German project "Revitalization of Traditional Law in Georgia.” The project aims at the study of the
traditional law in the contemporary Georgia. The group of ethnologists, bringing together the two German (Stephan Voel and Elke
Kami) and the two Georgian (Lavrenti Janiashvili and Natia Jalabadze) specialists plan to investigate and reveal the folk norms and elements of law, their forms, types and area of action. The project stresses the preservation of the traditional law, its specific and causing
reasons. Each researcher will investigate the particular aspect of the problem, resulting in the joint publication. The research of Lavrenti
Janiashvili investigates the traditional law in socialist Georgia, whereas the one of Natia Jalabadze is concentrated on the forms of
taking vengeance. The project ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

The International symposium was held in 20-21 April in Senda, at the Tohoku University, which is the third among Japanese universities with its importance. The symposium theme was "the new evaluations of the history”. The conference took place in the "Centre of study of the northern-eastern Asia” (CNES) at Tohoku University. The conference put together representatives from Azerbaijan, the Middle East, Mongolia and from so-called Sakha Republic (Iakutia, the Russian Federation). Georgia was presented by me already for the second time

The purpose of the symposium was a re-evaluation of soviet historiography appraisals and methodology. This was the main task of the symposium and all representatives tried to show it with the concrete material and by an example of their own countries.

My report was about the 1924-year rebellion and its evaluation in the soviet and post-soviet historiography. I presented this report in English, which was interpreted simultaneously into the Ja ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »