5th ISIPAE Program
28 February 2026, Saturday
Zoom link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87441759021?pwd=6hkXxEsflKqy61Yaqa3ieRiHUzwY0Z.1
09.30-09.40 Registration
09.40-10.00 Opening Speech
Congress Organization Committee Chair: Dr. Hasan Said Tortop, Young Wise Publishing, UK
Congress Chair: Assoc. Prof. Gvantsa Ghvinjilia, Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia
10.00-10.45 1st Day 1st Keynote Speech: Prof. Dr. Armando Rotondi
Rethinking R.U.R. by Karel Čapek Nowadays: A Practical Case Study of Adaptation in Rotondi and Bar-Amotz
Prof. Dr. Armando Rotondi
10.45-11.00 Session Break
1st Day – 1st Session: Session Chair
11.00-12.15 Proceeding Presentation:
Eschatomusicology: Based on the Ideas of Richard Wagner and Alexander Scriabin
Gvantsa Ghvinjilia
Even Death Is Humane; the Human Being Is Not
(Contemporary Georgian Theatre in the Context of the Crisis of Humanism)
Lasha Chkhartishvil
Refracting the Local: How Digital Streaming Platforms Mediate and Redefine African Musical Identities
Kirui, Amon Kipyegon
Signs of the Theatre of the Absurd in Greek Mythology
Gvantsa Guliashvila
12.15-12.30 Session Break
The introduction of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Art and Education (JIAE)
Editorial Board Member- Assoc. Prof. Gvantsa Ghvinjilia
12.30-13.15 1st Day 2nd Keynote Speech: Dr. Ivana Medić
Calculated Perfection vs. Humanity: The Industrialization of the Piano Competition
Dr. Ivana Medić
13.15-13.30 Session BreaK
1st Day – 2nd Session: Session Chair:
13.30-14.15 Proceeding Presentation:
Art and Humanity in Wartime: The Musical and Pedagogical Legacy of Hanna Havrylets (1958–2022)
Mali Liu
Should We Be Afraid of New Life? Fear and Moral Dilemmas in 21st-Centery Georgian and Turkish Drama
Vasil Janikashvili
Graffiti Against the Void Liberalism's Crisis in Georgia
Giorgi Razmadze
From Oral Memory to Artistic Humanism: Reframing Akan Folklore Through Asɛmpayɛtsia
Nana Dawson
14.15-14.30 Session Break
14.30-15.15 1st Day 3rd Keynote Speech: Dr Vesna Svalina
Educating for Humanity through the Arts: The Role of Musical and Interdisciplinary Creativity in Shaping a Humane School Culture
Vesna Svalina
15.15-15.30 Session Break
1st Day – 3rd Session: Session Chair:
15.30-16.15 Proceeding Presentation:
Zlata and Yefim Tkach: A Composer and an Ethnomusicologist in Search of Their Jewish and Moldovan Musical Roots, Under the Soviet Regime
Nethanel Pollak
Musical Instruments and Wedding Performance Practice in 16th-Century Azerbaijan: An Iconographic Analysis of a Safavid Miniature
Abbasgulu Najafzade
Orthoepy as a cross-cultural determinant of performer interpretation of vocal music
Dmytro Kyrychek
Tragedy And The Grotesque In Modernist Opera: An Examination of Berg, Britten and Shostakovich
Ayşe Bozkurt
Rast Maqam and Form in Azerbaijani Âşık Music: A Modal–Intonational Analysis of Selected Airs from the Epic “Âşık Garip”
Naile Rahimbeyli
17.45 Closing
March 1, 2026 Sunday
Istanbul, Turkiye Time
Zoom link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89251947654?pwd=szl2jeRg4dfBiJqNVMI8hzcVPVHe30.1
10.00 Opening
10.00-10.45 2nd Day 3rd Keynote Speech: Asmati Chibalashvili
Posthumanism in Art & Art in Posthumanism: Art as a Laboratory of Posthumanist Thinking
Asmati Chibalashvili
10.45-11.00 Session Break
2nd Day – 4th Session: Session Chair:
11.00-12.15 Proceeding Presentation:
Reclaiming Somatic Intelligence: A Sumerian Minahasan Embodied Framework for Music Education in the AI Er
Soegiarto Hartono
Robert Sturua's Shakespeare Interpretations in the 21st Century
Marina (Maka) Vasadze
Effects of the First World War on European Cinematic Culture
Zviad Dolidze
The Countertenor Phenomenon in Azerbaijani Vocal Art: Vocal Physiology, Syncretic Technique, and Artistic Innovation in the Work of Ilham Nazarov
Sehrana Kasimi
12.15-12.30 Session Break
12.30-13.15 2nd Day 2nd Keynote Speech: Prof. Wojciech M. Marchwica
Universalism in Film – Remarks Based on the 2023 Film Chłopi (The Peasants), directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
Prof. Wojciech M. Marchwica
13.15-13.30 Session Break
2nd Day – 5th Session: Session Chair:
13.30-14.45 Proceeding Presentation:
Parabolic Language as a Method of Coexistence with Censorship
Tamta Turmanidze
What Does Mersenne Owe to Bacchius? On the Revival and Reception of Late Ancient Theories of Harmony in Seventeenth-Century French Discourse
Nikola Komatović
Musical references of intermedial images in the films based on the drama-extravaganza Lisova Pisnya [“The Forest Song”] by Lesya Ukrainka
Olena Dyachkova
Konstantin Marjanishvili’s Influence on the Russian Theater Avant-Garde
Elene Shalutashvili
14.45-15.00 Session Break
15.00-15:05 Closing Ceremony
Assoc. Prof. Gvantsa Ghvinjilia
