On March 26, 2026, at 5:00 PM, within the framework of “Ilia’s Thursdays,” a public lecture by Giga Maminashvili, organized by the International Research Center for Georgian Studies at Caucasus University, was held on the topic: “The Function and Place of the Father in Psychoanalysis – Socio-Cultural and Psychic Meanings in Freud’s Classical Theory and in Contemporary Georgia.”

On February 26, Caucasus University hosted the opening event of the “Ilia’s Thursdays” lecture series, organized by the International Research Center for Georgian Studies. The initiative represents a contemporary reactivation of a historic intellectual tradition.