CESNUR - Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni diretto da Massimo Introvigne
www.cesnur.org

EMBASSY OF ITALY
TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY "JAVAKISHVILI"

INTERNATIONAL GURDJIEFF SEMINAR IN TBILISI:
"G.I. GURDJIEFF FROM SOUTH CAUCASUS TO WESTERN WORLD: HIS INFLUENCE ON SPIRITUALITY, THOUGHT AND CULTURE IN ITALY, EUROPE AND USA"

TBILISI, 7 MARCH 2007 – Tbilisi State University “Javakhshvili”
I corpus - Auditorium Sarajishvili – 3rd floor

• h.10.00-10.10 - Opening Speech of the Ambassador of Italy, H.E. Fabrizio Romano
  
  
• h.10.10-10.20 - Speech of the Rector of the Tbilisi State University, Prof. George Khubua
  
  
• h.10.20-10.40 - PierLuigi Zoccatelli (ITALY) - Deputy Director of CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions): “Biography of a ‘Remarkable Man’”
  
  
• h.10.40-10.50 - Discussion
  
  
• h.10.50-11.10 - Avetik Melik-Sargsyan (ARMENIA): “Life and work of G.I. Gurdijeff: Caucasian Influence on Contemporary Thought and Culture”
  
  
• h. 11.10-11.20 - Discussion
  
  
• h. 11.20-11.30 - Dr. Manana Khomeriki (GEORGIA): “About Gurdjieff’s origins and his activities in Georgia”
  
  
• h. 11.30- 11.40 - Coffee break
  
  
• h. 11.40-12.00 - Prof. Constance A. Jones (USA) - California Institute of Integral Studies: “Gurdjieff Schools: USA, Europe and Italy”
  
  
• h. 12.00-12.10 - Discussion
  
  
• h. 12.10-12.30 - Prof. Massimo Introvigne (ITALY) - Director of CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions): “Gurdjieff Influence on the Italian Culture and Spirituality”
  
  
• h.12.30-12.40 - Discussion
  
  
• h 12.40-13.00 - H.E. Msgr. Claudio Gugerotti, Apostolic Nuncio in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan: “A possible influence of Eastern Christianity on the thought of Gurdjieff”
  
  
• h. 13.00-14.00 - Lunch
  
  
• h. 14.00-14.20 - Janri Kashia (GEORGIA): “New Vision of the Integrity of the Human Being”
  
  
• h.14.20-14.30 - Alexandr Cherkezishvili (GEORGIA): “Difficulties and experience of a Georgian seeker of truth in soviet, perestroika time and today”
  
  
• h. 14.30- 14.40 - Discussion
  
  
• h. 14.40-15.00 - Prof. Levan Khetaguri (GEORGIA),Vice-Rector of Shota Rustaveli Georgian State University of Theatre and Film: “Gurdjieff and the XX Century Culture”
  
  
• h. 15.00-15.10 – Conclusion Speech
  
  
• h. 15.10-18.00 - Visit to Gurdjeff’s places in Tbilisi
  
  

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For whom interested, in the evening, at the “Shota Rustaveli State University of Theatre and Film”, screening of films and documentaries.