On 18 and 19 September 2014 SCIT Director Irina Alexeeva took part in the

international conference “Translation of Literature as a Meeting Point of Peoples and

Literatures” marking the 100th

translation theoretician. Tbilisi State University hosted the event. The participants focused

on the contemporary trends in literary translation, their connection with the tradition, and

looked retrospectively at the literary translation in the XX cent. Irina Alexeeva made a plenary

report “Flight of the Butterfly: Givi Gachechiladze’s Ideas and Development of philological

translation”. In her report Irina Alexeeva analyzed the connections between Georgian and

Leningrad schools of literary translation, and in particular a close creative interaction with the

concepts of Andrey Fedorov, founding father of translation theory in Russia.

anniversary of Givi Gachechiladze, a renowned XX cent.