Kartvelology Center

Kartvelology Scientific Research Center has been operating since 2010 at the St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Georgian Patriarchate.
The mission of the Center is to study the Georgian language, history, and traditional culture, and to develop Georgian/Kartvelian studies focused on one historical language of the Georgians. It aims to establish the fundamental principles of scientific Georgian/Kartvelian studies, considering modern (international) definitions and terminology, and to spread these principles on an international level.
To introduce the Georgian literary language and the history of the Georgian linguistic world, as well as Georgian speech units, to both Georgian and foreign interested parties, the center actively collaborates with Georgian and foreign Georgian/Kartvelian scholars, including linguists, literary critics, ethnologists, cultural scholars, historians, and editorial boards of contemporary encyclopedias.

Goals and Objectives of the Center

• Research on the linguistic world of the Georgians, historical onomastics, ethnographic characteristics, specific historical problems, and oral traditions;
• Study of the dialects, ethnographic characteristics, and oral traditions of Georgians living beyond the current borders of Georgia, and the creation of a corresponding collection of documentary materials;
• Exchange of research results and information between foreign and Georgian specialists, organization of meetings and joint research activities;
• Creation of scientific works in Kartvelology;
• Support students in the field of Kartvelology studies in their research on local varieties of the Georgian language, Georgian folklore, and ethnographic data.