We were pleased to invite the Board of Trustees to the lovely Plovdiv for its annual meeting, which was convened this year on 28 May, 2022. These are a few snapshots from our tour in the Old Town and the meeting itself on the following day.
CAS Gallery & Video
Gallery: Fellows Seminar at CAS
Once per week or twice, every Thursday we summon our Fellow seminars.
Roundtable “Avenues of cooperation: Ideas for overcoming the Macedonian-Bulgarian impasse”
On 11 March, 2022, the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje (ISSHS)...
Gallery: CAS Fellows trip to Belintash and Plovdiv
А two-days trip to Belintash - a picturesque stone plateau in the Rhodopi mountains - and the Old City of Plovdiv where we enjoyed its shady cobblestone streets and the newly opened Bishop's Basilica.
Book Launch “Monastic Economy Across Time: Wealth Management, Patterns, and Trends”
In a full video recording you can listen to Rositsa Gradeva of the American University in Bulgaria, and Kostis Smyrlis of the National Hellenic Research Foundation who shared their impressions on the findings of the team behind this interesting collective volume.
GETTY-CAS Archaeological Schools: First Spring School – Video Gallery
Full video recording of all presented papers and follow-up discussion.
GETTY-CAS Archaeological Schools: Opening Conference – Video Gallery
Full video recording of the conference proceedings.
CAS Discussion Series: Anachronism or regularity? Studying the Communist Regime in Bulgaria in the Context of “Transitional Justice”
The lecture traces the history of the study and evaluation of the communist regime in Bulgaria, and in particular the battle for its adequate representation in school curricula and textbooks.
CAS Discussion Series: Populism/s East and West: an Empirical and Theoretical Comparison
The next seminar of the CAS Discussion Series "Policies of the Rule of Law" took place on 17 January 2020 (Friday) at the Centre for Advanced Study with a lecture by Prof. Emilia Zankinka.
Guest Lecture: The great Byzantine Monastery. A Success Story
A Lecture by Prof. Kostis Smyrlis, University of New York, 18 October, 2019 (Friday), 18:00 – 19:30, “Boris Christoff” Museum (43, Tsar Samuil Str., Sofia.) The lecture was part of the Research Network dedicated to the History of the Monastic Economy.
Fellows visit the Great Basilica excavation side in Plovdiv
Glances from the inspiring trip to Plovdiv where CAS Fellows enjoyed the Great and Small Basillica being restored and opened to tourists.
Gallery: Does Monastic Economy Matter? Religious Patterns of Economic Bahaviour II
Snapshots from the 2nd Workshop of the Research Network dedicated to the History of the Monastic Economy and the lecture of Prof. Elias Kolovos which took place in Sofia on 9-11 November, 2018.