The State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia and “Ivane Javakhishvili” Tbilisi State University are organizing the IIIrd Heraldic and Vexillological Conference “Heraldry and Historical Sources” (Tbilisi, 15-17 September 2023).
The lectures are listed below:
- Tornike ASATIANI – “The Sources of Georgian Heraldry and the Symbolic Practices in Contemporary Georgia”;
- Andrea BABUIN – “Late Byzantine Flags and Heraldry”;
- Luc DUERLOO – “Portolans: Portals to a Heraldic and Vexillological Past”;
- Omiko EJIBIA – “Ali al-Sharaf’s Black Sea Portolan”;
- Petr EXNER – “Bohemian, Moravian and Silesian Symbols in Historical Sources”;
- Manana GABASHVILI – “Sea and Ships with Georgian Flags on the Fresco of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral”;
- Mamuka GONGADZE – “Historical sources (Portolans) in the Process of State Symbols Determination”;
- Andriy GRECHYLO – “Rural Seals of Galicia (Halychyna) from the XVIII-XIX Centuries as a Source for Modern Municipal Coats of Arms and Flags”;
- Teimuraz JOJUA – “One More Impression of King Giorgi’s Seal Showing Five-Fold Cross Found in a Hagiographic Collection A-382 Copied in the First Half of the 14th Century”;
- Iason JONGEPIER – “Portolan Charts in a Digital Era”;
- Patrice de LA CONDAMINE – “Heraldic Heritage in Actual and Historical Flags (States, regions, towns, etc. via examples)”;
- Davit MAISURADZE, Nestan BAGAURI – “Cross with Four Dots in Georgian Historical Documents”;
- Gerard MARI BRULL – “Heraldry of the Hispanic Monarchy and its States through the Decorative Arts: Heraldic Decoration of two 17th Century Desks”;
- Maia PATARIDZE – “The Crusader Traces in the Georgian Numismatics”;
- Elizabeth ROADS – “History and Heraldry – Historical Influences on Scottish Coats of Arms”;
- Mamuka TSURTSUMIA – “Jerusalem Cross: Its History and Development”;
- Nicolas VERNOT – “Relevant or Inappropriate? Aristocratic Emblems in French Civic Heraldry”.
The brochure of the Conference is available below: