The regular meeting of the CAS Academic Council to select the CAS Fellows for the academic year 2022-2023 has been scheduled for Friday the 17th of June, 2022. The evaluation of candidates and their research proposals will be carried out in six fellowship modules: Advanced Academia for international fellows; Gerda Henkel Fellowships for scholars from...
Dr. Lilia Topouzova (MON Diaspora Fellow, May – Jul ‘22) will talk about her research at CAS: The Life-Stories of Bulgarian Gulag Survivors in the Post-Communist Public Space on 23 June, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by (tbc).
Dr. Aneta Vassileva (Landis & Gyr Artistic Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Feb ‘22) will talk about her research at CAS: Contested Heritage: Contextualizing Difficult Past. History, Theory and Aspects of Contestation of Art and Architecture in a Postsocialist Pan-European Context on 30 June, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by (tbc).
Dr. Mirela Ivanova (MON Diaspora Fellow, May - July '22) will talk about her research at CAS: Greek in the Early Medieval Balkans, ca.880-1014 on 14 July, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by (tbc).
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia has the pleasure to host the presentation of the book The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene by Prof. Dr. Theodora K. Dragostinova (Ohio State University) 21 September 2022 (Wednesday), 17:00 h Conference Room at CAS, Stefan Karadja str. 7 In...
On the 4th of October 2022 the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia marks the formal start of its regular academic activities for the forthcoming academic year 2022 / 2023.
Peter Dobrev (MON Fellow, Oct '22 - Jul '22) will talk about his research at CAS: The Fight against the Kulaks in Bulgaria – the Fate of the Large Landowners in Dobrudja after 1944 on 20 October, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30h. Moderated by Martin Ivanov. - - - Abstract: Prior to World War II, the...
Please note: this event is by invitation-only! The Center for the Study of Religion (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) and the Centre for Advanced Study are pleased to announce the next seminar of the series Religion and Culture On Tuesday, 25 October 2022, the opening session will be convened at the Conference Hall in CAS...
Anastasia Ryabchuk (Gerda Henkel Fellow, Oct '22 - Feb '23) will talk about her research at CAS: International Development and Vulnerability in the Frontline Communities of the Donbas on 27 October, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Bogdana Paskaleva. - - - Abstract: Post-Soviet deindustrialization and the economic collapse of the 1990s led to...
The CAS Public Lecture Series is relaunching and will be held every second Wednesday (starting from 2 November 2022) at 17:30h at the American Corner of Sofia City Library on 4, Slaveykov Square. You are cordially welcome to attend the lectures of the junior and senior Bulgarian Fellows of the 2021-2022 academic year under the...
Martin Valkov (MON Fellow, Oct '22 - Jul '23) will talk about his research at CAS: Beyond Totalitarianism: Mass Internment, Concentration Camps and Forced Labor in Bulgaria in the 20th Century on 10 November, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Anastasia Ryabchuk. Abstract Mass internment of civilians, deportations, concentration camps, forced labor – these...
The CAS Public Lecture Series is relaunching and will be held every second Wednesday (starting from 2 November 2022) at 17:30h at the American Corner of Sofia City Library on 4, Slaveykov Square. You are cordially welcome to attend the lectures of the junior and senior Bulgarian Fellows of the 2021-2022 academic year under the...
Nicolae Drăgușin (Advanced Academia Fellow, Oct '22 – Feb '23) will talk about his research at CAS: Romania and the Concordat with the Holy See: Churches, Nation-Building and Legal Controversies (1921-1948) on 17 November, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Abdulhamit Kırmızı. Short abstract: The Concordat that the post-1918 Romanian state signed and ratified...
The CAS Public Lecture Series is relaunching and will be held every second Wednesday (starting from 2 November 2022) at 17:30h at the American Corner of Sofia City Library on 4, Slaveykov Square. You are cordially welcome to attend the lectures of the junior and senior Bulgarian Fellows of the 2021-2022 academic year under the...
Stoyanka Eneva (MON Fellow, Oct '22 – Jul '23) will give a first talk about her research at CAS: The Cases of Bulgarian Female Care Workers in Greece and Spain on 1 December, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Nadezhda Alexandrova. Abstract: Greece and Spain are countries with a particularly dynamic recent migration history...
