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...
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...
Simeon Simeonov (MON Diaspora Fellow, Oct '22 – Dec '22) will present his research at CAS: Transnationals: Consuls and the Making of the Modern Balkans (1787-1908) on 15 December, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Nicolae Drăgușin. Transnationals: Consuls and the Making of the Modern Balkans (1787-1908) examines the role of consuls in the...
Slavka Karakusheva (MON Fellow, Oct '22 – Jul '23) will give a first talk on her research at CAS: Population Politics and Nation Building: Migrations of Turkish and Muslim Populations from Bulgaria to Turkey (1925–1939) on 12 January, 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Petar Dobrev. The project aims to analyse migrations of Turkish...
Please note: this event is in Bulgarian! We are glad to announce that after a long break we are reinstating the Discussion Series under the wide theme Economic (Social) History of Bulgaria: The Future through the Past Culture Led by Martin Ivanov and Roumen Avramov. The series will be renewed and hosted by the Centre...
Miguel A. Martínez (RevHum Fellow, Oct '22 – Feb '23) will talk about his research at CAS: Political Outcomes of Housing Financialisation and Social Contention in Spain on 19 January, 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Stoyanka Eneva. The project is investigating the political impacts of two interrelated phenomena: housing financialization and grassroots contestation,...
Bogdana Paskaleva (MON Fellow, Oct '22 - Jul '22) will give a first talk about her research at CAS: Pre-structuralist Semiology: Materiality of Language in Ferdinand de Saussure on 26 January, 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30h. Moderated by Nadezhda Alexandrova. The first presentation of the project Pre-structuralist semiology will introduce the general framework of research on...
The Center for the Study of Religion (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia are pleased to announce the next seminar of the series "Religion and Culture".
On Friday, 27 January 2023 the session will be convened in the CAS conference hall on the topic "The Mystique of the Ancient Thracians - Internal and External Audiences in the 1970s" with lecturer Dr. Iliya Iliev.
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a discussion series under the theme: Why Byzantium?
On Tuesday, 31 January 2023 the third meeting of the series will be convened in the CAS conference hall on the topic "The Enduring Problems with the ‘Brand’ Byzantium: Thoughts on the Empire and Its Scholarship" with lecturer Prof. Vlada Stanković (University of Belgrade).
(Please note this lecture is in Bulgarian!)
You are cordially welcome to attend the lectures of the junior and senior Bulgarian Fellows of the 2021-2022 academic year under the Advanced Academia programme.
On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 we are pleased to announce the lecture by Dr. Delyan Rusev, who will present on the topic "One’s Own Others: Balkan Christians in Ottoman Historical Writing (15th–16th Century)"
