Roman Shlyakhtin, Medieval Studies Doctoral Candidate, teaches at Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Roman Shlyakhtin, Medieval Studies PhD Candidate, traveled to Tbilisi in the spring as the sixth doctoral student to give an intensive class at one of our partner institutions. While there he was hosted by Professor Bejan Javakhia at Ilia State University.

Roman spent two weeks (30 March-12 April) in Tbilisi teaching a course on "Barbarians inside!? Internal diasporas in the twelfth-century Byzantium." The class was divided into six meetings paying special attention to Georgian analogies with Byzantine institutions and the specific issues of  Byzantium and diasporas in the Komnenian period.