Events

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), is pleased to announce this year’s Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE). CAS and ACLS will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria...

Bisserka Gaydarska (BG-Swiss Fellowships for Bulgarian Diaspora Scholars, Jan – Mar ‘25) will present her research on: Miniature People with Lots to Say: Balkan Prehistoric Figurines in Context on 19 June 2025 (Thursday), at 16:30. Moderated by Miglena Stamberova. Abstract: In this presentation, I summarise what archaeologists do, the different paradigms within which they have...

Ahmed Nuri (BG-Swiss Fellowships for Bulgarian Junior Scholars, Oct ‘24 – Jul ‘25) will present his progress on: The Majority of the Minority: Turkish Literature in Bulgaria’s Communist Semiosphere, 1944-1969 26 June 2025 (Thursday), at 16:30 Moderated by Oleksiy Polunin.

Oleksiy Polunin (Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship, Mar – Jul ‘25) will give a talk on his research: Living through an Apocalypse: The Role of Self, Time, and Emotions on 19 July 2025 (Thursday), at 16:30 Moderated by Igor Serdiuk.