1. Language and language politics, the idea of nationality
2. Politics, writing, ideology: the Black Sea region.   
3. Construction of identities in literature and translation  - spanning from the classics to the postmodern
4. Literature, translation and exile: writers and poets from ex-communist countries, postcolonial turn 
5. Ethnic conflicts involving Georgia and reflection on the culture 
6. Modern liberalism and conservatism in East Europe in the new cultural turn
7. Evolvement of the political thought in the post-communist space since 1991 and social and cultural development

Translation Studies will be a one of the special focal points of the conference, as it has been part of the cultural and literary studies, apart from the linguistic approaches, not much has been contributed to the specifically to the texts of the minority languages of their translation into the dominant language of the Soviet Empire. Could we hear authentic voices in the translations? Can we now?