The Oxford Georgian Translation Project

02/05/2026

Join us on the 26th May to celebrate Georgian Independence Day with a screening of Elene Mikaberidze’s 2024 film ‘Blueberry Dreams.’ The film is a warm, immersive documentary following a family’s hard fought struggle to start a blueberry farm amongst financial and political hurdles in a part of Georgia burdened by conflict, mere miles from the occupied territory of Abkhazia. We are delighted that the film’s director Elene Mikaberidze will be joining us for a Q&A with former Oxford Georgian Society president Sophia Maisashvili after the screening.

This event is open to all, and will begin promptly at 5PM on the 26th May, in the Nissan Theatre, St Anthony's College, Oxford. Please fill out the form in our bio so we can keep track of numbers.

This event is organised by the Oxford Georgian Society in collaboration with the Oxford Georgian Translation Project.

08/05/2025

The annual Oxford-Georgia Forum serves as a dynamic platform for fostering dialogue and advancing partnership initiatives between Georgia and the United Kingdom. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, the forum draws on a broad range of academic disciplines, including political...

20/02/2025

Please, join us tomorrow at St Antony’s college 17.15

Join us on Friday, 17:15, at the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College for a timely panel discussion on the escalating democratic crisis in Georgia. Our experts will analyse the evolution of the protest movement, the prospects of the ruling Georgian Dream party, and the shifting international response.

Guest speakers:
Dr Tea Kamushadze, Georgian Studies Fellow at Oxford University, Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Assistant Professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Invited Lecturer at Tbilisi State University

Megi Kartsivadze, Oxford DPhil Candidate, Invited lecturer, Free University of Tbilisi and Agricultural University of Georgia

Sandro Zibzibadze, Oxford MPP Student, Civil Activist and NGO Founder, Board Member of 'My Vote for the EU' Election Observation Coalition

19/01/2025

Exciting event in Oxford on Friday 24.01.2025

Join us on Friday, the 24th of January at 5PM, for a discussion with Tbilisi born, UK raised writer Leo Vardiashvili on his debut novel ‘Hard by a Great Forest.’ The event will take place in the Pavilion Room at St Antony’s College and will be followed by a coffee and tea reception.

Leo Vardiashvili, an Observer best new novelist for 2024, came to the UK as a refugee aged twelve, after fleeing civil war torn Georgia. Hard by a Great Forest is his much lauded first novel, published in 2024.

The novel’s narrator Saba, like the author, fled Georgia as a child, and returns, two decades later, to a surreal, flooded Tbilisi with escaped zoo animals roaming the streets. Searching for his disappeared father and brother, Saba follows a trail of cryptic clues, determined to put the past to rest.

All are welcome to attend. In person only.

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