It was a pleasure to be invited as keynote speaker to the VI International Interdisciplinary Symposium of Young Scholars in the Humanities – “Kartvelian Studies: History, Modernity, Perspectives” , Tbilisi, October 11-13, 2024 https://sites.google.com/tsu.ge/isysh-2024/home. I gave the presentation “Language Use. Among Svanetians in the late 1990s. A Questionnaire Study in Kemo-Svaneti”. See Program and abstracts here: https://sites.google.com/tsu.ge/isysh-2024/program-abstracts

Among the senior linguists addressing the participants at the and VI International Interdisciplinary Symposium of Young Scholars in the Humanities were legendary Academician, Professor Mzekala Shanidze (photo to the left upper row), born in 1926 as the daughter of the distinguished expert on Old and Modern Georgian, professor Akaki Shanidze.. Many thanks to the main organizer, Prof. Ramaz Kurdadze, Head of the Scientific Educational Institute of the Georgian Language at the Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.