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Giga Zedania is a Georgian philosopher and academic, and also used to be the Rector of Ilia State University.[1] He has published extensively on philosophy and Georgian social and political developments.[1] He ran Ilia State University from 2014 to 2022.[2] Since 2022, Zedania is the director of the Center for Advanced Studies at Ilia State University.[2] He has worked as a council member of the Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory and as the president of the Black Sea University Network.[2] He has also been a fellow at the Open Society Institute, a member of the Shota Rustaveli Science Foundation in Georgia, and since 2022 an Honorary Member of the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.[2]
He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), a master's degree from Central European University (Hungary, Budapest), and has previously also studied at Tbilisi State University and for one year at Bard College in the United States.[3]
Among his major publications is Modernization in Georgia: Theories, Discourses and Realities (Peter Lang, 2018). He has previously written on religion and nationalism, and on Georgian and German political thinkers and philosophers.[4][5]
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