It was an inspiring day at the European Studies and European Philology Workshop of the CEMES network “Thinking the European Republic of Letters”, bringing together researchers from the universities of Copenhagen, Lund, and Malmö. Many thanks to the organizers. Link to the event.

It was a pleasure to give the joint presentation “Options and challenges for a European philology:AI & IT, and Georgia” together with Christian Høgel, Lund Universisty, Professor of Ancient/Byzantine Greek, Latin, and Modern Greek, who has a keen interest in Old Georgian and research on Greek-Georgian translations.

The overarching question posed at the workshop was “What is, can there or should there be such a thing as a European philology?” and the aim of our presentation was to argue that Georgia and Georgian philology has an intereseting role to play here.