BGS and the Georgian Society of University College London are pleased to announce that Professor Elguja Khintibidze, Academian of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Head of the Institute of History of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi State University is giving a lecture:

Rustaveli’s “THE MAN IN THE PANTHER SKIN – A LITERARY SOURCE OF SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES”

The lecture is based on research Professor Khintibidze has carried out into early connections between Georgia and England and the potential transmissions of ideas and sources between the two countries.

Thursday 13th November 2014 at 8.00pm. 

Anatomy Building G29 J Z Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT 

Georgian wine and nibbles will be provided afterwards. 

The event is free to attend but please email info@britishgeorgiansociety.org if you would like to attend.