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Manana Tevzadze

Direction:of Tourism
Position:Assistant Professor

Manana Tevzadze is the board member and former Chair of the Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield (2012-2023). With a master’s degree in World Heritage Studies from Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus Senftenberg, she brings almost 20 years of experience in Georgia’s cultural heritage sector. During her tenure as the first chair of Blue Shield Georgia Manana succeeded in developing a strong civil society organisation advocating for cultural heritage disaster risk preparedness. Along with her duties as the Chair of Blue Shield Georgia, where she spearheaded numerous donor-funded projects, resulting in the development of disaster risk management and conservation plans for heritage sites and museums in Georgia, Manana also worked as a freelance heritage consultant, researcher and trainer and has been engaged in projects funded by the EU, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, GIZ, the World Bank, UNESCO and ICCROM.

In the academic field, Manana has taught courses (Culture Project Management, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Heritage Conservation and Management, Heritage Tourism and Heritage Management) at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and Ilia State University as a visiting lecturer.

As an active civil society member, Manana serves on the boards of ICOM and ICOMOS Georgia and is the Secretary of ICOMOS Georgia since 2019, having also served on the board of Blue Shield International from 2017 to 2020.

Scientific interests / research interests

Protection of Cultural Heritage in Times of Crises, Implementation of the UNESCO 1954 Hague Convention with the focus on Georgia’s cultural property on the occupied territories, Study of the intangible cultural heritage among the Internally Displaced Communities in Georgia.

Featured publications

  • Tevzadze, M. “Peace-time preparations for a museum near the occupation line in Georgia: NGO-led efforts” Chapter in “Heritage at War: Plan and Prepare” Mark Dunkley, Lisa Mol and Anna Tulliach (eds) proceedings of a conference organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum and University of Leicester (in the process -publication date, 15 October 2024)
  • Tevzadze, M. The Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club: an Example of Preserving Late Soviet Modernist Architecture „In Restauro: Post-War Heritage of Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. Integrated Approaches to Dissonant Monuments and Sites“, Berlin 2023 (ICOMOS - Journals of the German National Committee LXXVIII).
  • Tevzadze, M, Cunliffe, E. Gasparov, B. Meladze, S. Report on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law with regards to the Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Occupied Tskhinvali Region, Georgia. Tbilisi, 2022. Available at: http://map.blueshield.ge/Files/Report%20on%20cultural%20heritage%20in%20Georgia's%20occupied%20territories_Final_Redacted.pdf

An extensive list of publications

  • TEVZADZE, M. Protection of Cultural Heritage on the Occupied Territory of Abkhazia in Light of Implementation of the Hague Convention, 2nd International Spring School "Abkhazia: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Historical-Culturological Aspects)" Tbilisi, 2022
  • Tevzadze, M. Cunliffe E., Cultural Heritage Destruction in Occupied Tskhinvali Region: A preliminary Review in: Khosroshvili, T., Gabashvili, M., Tevzadze, M., Belashvili, T., Chumburidze, T., Abashidze, Z. & Cheishvil, G. (eds.). Protection Of Cultural Heritage On Occupied Territories: Georgia And International Experience. Conference Proceedings 24-25 June 2021. Tbilisi Available at: https://bit.ly/3JKtvjj
  • Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club Conservation Management Plan, Tbilisi, 2021 (Co-author)
  • Ksenia Chmutina, Aparna Tandon, Maryam Kalkhitashvili, Manana Tevzadze, Irakli Kobulia Connecting heritage, vulnerabilities and capacities through a participatory game. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
  • How and Why Should we Protect Late Modernist Architecture, Tbilisi 2020 (Co-author)
  • Tevzadze, M. Typology and Conservation Management of Defensive Structures and the role of local communities in Georgia, in Nahmasanseong International Symposium Proceedings, Korea, October, 2019
  • Tevzadze, M., Heritage Teaching in Georgia, in: IAWHP conference proceedings “World Heritage Theory, Policy and Practice” held in BTU Cottbus, April 2017
  • Cultural Heritage Activists’ Guide. (Co-author) Blue Shield Georgia, 2017, Tbilisi

Course Catalog

  • 2017/2018 Spring Semester in the School of Business, Technology and Education, bachelor’s degree lecture course “ Cultural Heritage and Tourism”
  • 2016/2017 Spring Semester in the School of Business, Technology and Education, bachelor’s degree lecture course  and School of Arts and Sciences , lecture course “Heritage and Tourism”
  • 2015/2016 Fall Semester, bachelor’s degree School of Arts and Sciences , lecture course “Project Management in Culture Sector” and Spring Semester in the School of Business, Technology and Education, bachelor’s degree lecture course “ Cultural Heritage and Tourism”
  • 2014/2015 Spring Semester in the School of Business, Technology and Education, bachelor’s degree lecture course “ Cultural Heritage and Tourism”
  • 2011/2012 Spring semester in business administration master and bachelor degree programs a lecture course “Tourism Management”
  • 2010/2011 Spring Semester at the School of Arts and Sciences bachelor’s degree lecture course “Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management”.

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