Dear Colleagues!

We take great pleasure in inviting You to participate in a 3rd International Symposium "Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism" about to be organized by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature (Tbilisi, Georgia) in September, 2009. The symposium will be held in an unattended form.
The Symposium is dedicated to the issues of contemporary literary studies, the problems of Georgian and World literature, literary relations and influences in the context of historical and intercultural communications.
Panel topics will include the following:

• Medieval Studies
• Mythos, Ritual, Symbol
• The Boundaries of a Novel
• Contemporary Literary Processes
• Text and Globalization
• Interculturul Communications
• Comparative Analysis of a Text and Typology of Culture


Working languages of the Symposium are Georgian, English and Russian.

Call for papers: Paper titles, abstracts of no more than 250 words (font: Times New Roman, font size: 12, line spacing -1.5) and filled registration forms (they can be downloaded from our website) should be sent electronically by July, 2009 to the Organizing Committee on the following email: maillit@litinstituti.ge Submitted papers will be reviewed and approved participants will receive an informational communiqué a month after the completion of the submission deadline. Registration fee for accepted participants will be 30 EURO. It covers: Publication of symposium materials. Yours faithfully, Organizing Commiteee