TRANSPARENT WINDOWS (ON SITE @ ROOM 112 old building)
You're cordially invited to the WORKSHOP to be held on FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2026 @ 14:00-15:30
Workshop Title: Religion and Science in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
Speaker: Tamta Amiranashvili (Assistant Professor, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia)
(event organized in the context of the Erasmus+International Exchanges)
Language of the event: English
REGISTRATION FORM
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ABSTRACT
This interactive workshop gives participants an opportunity to explore Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle through discussion and creative activities. As Vonnegut satirically portrays religion, science and political power, students will examine how societies create systems of belief and how these systems shape human behavior and freedom. Participants will engage with activities inspired by the fictional religion of Bokononism and the destructive invention Ice-Nine, they will try to answer Vonnegut's provocative questions: Do people need comforting illusions to survive? Can scientific progress exist without ethical responsibility? The workshop encourages participants to experiment with creative responses to the novel's themes, including inventing their own harmless untruths, or dystopian scenarios. The workshop aims to demonstrate how Cat's Cradle remains a powerful exploration of the tensions between science, religion, authority and individual freedom in the modern world.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dr. Tamta Amiranashvili is a scholar of English literature from Kutaisi, Georgia. She received her PhD from Akaki Tsereteli State University in 2019. As part of her academic and professional development, she studied at St. Catherine University in the United States and the University of Graz in Austria. Since 2013, she has been working at Akaki Tsereteli State University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor of English Literature. Her research interests focus primarily on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, with a particular emphasis on dystopian fiction, posthumanism, and representations of technology and the future in contemporary literature.
