Events

Dr. Nina Peršak (Advanced Academia Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Feb ‘22) will present her research project on the topic: Diversity and European Courts: Implications for Judicial Legitimacy and the Rule of Law on 28 October, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Prof. Martin Ivanov. The research project focuses on understanding diversity (and wider topics...

Dr. Evlogi Stanchev (MON Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Jun ‘22) will give his introductory talk on the topic: The Diasporic Experience (Re)Considered: Idioms of Belonging and Transborder Ethnic Kinship within Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria on 04 November, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Prof. Angel Nikolov. The project aims to reconsider – both theoretically...

Dr. Delyan Rusev (MON Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Jun ‘22) will give his introductory talk on the topic: Imagining One’s Own Infidel: Ottoman Muslim Accounts of Balkan Non-Muslims, 15th–17th Century on 11 November, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Georgios Chatzelis. The research project focuses on a hitherto understudied facet of Christian-Muslim relations...

THE SEMINARS WORKING LANGUAGE IS BULGARIAN! The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a series of workshops under the theme: Forms of Ownership – Property in Communist Bulgaria On the 12th of November, 2021 we will convene the seventh meeting of the series: Nationalization and the Protection of Property Lecturer: Ekaterina Salkova Institute of Law...

Dr. Georgios Chatzelis (Advanced Academia Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Feb ‘22) will present his research project on the topic: Stratagems and the Byzantine Culture of War: Theory, Practice, Report, Reception and Cross-Cultural Exchanges with the Muslim world on 25 November, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Mariana Bodnaruk. The project studies stratagems and...

THE SEMINARS WORKING LANGUAGE IS BULGARIAN! The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a series of workshops under the theme: Forms of Ownership – Property in Communist Bulgaria On the 26th of November, 2021 we will convene the eight meeting of the series: Property Acquisition in the People's Republic of Bulgaria Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Delyan...

Mirjam Landolt (Landis and Gyr Artistic Fellow, Sep ‘21 – Dec ‘21) will present and show her film: Rara Avis (HD / colour / 61 min. / Switzerland) on 2 November, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Mariana Bodnaruk. Synopsis: In the middle of the Ocean, a crew made up of five teenagers...

Dr. Valentin Kalinov (MON Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Jun ‘22) will give his introductory talk on the topic: Between Repression and Resistance: the Critical Reception of Psychoanalysis in Bulgaria (1947-1990) on 09 December, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Nina Peršak.

Dr. Paula Angelova (MON Fellow, Oct '21 - July '22) will give her introductory talk on: Phenomenological Perspectives on Existential Spatiality on 16 December, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h.

Dr. Mariana Bodnaruk (Gerda Henkel Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Feb ‘22) will make her presentation on: Transvestite saints in Jerusalem: Embodiment, Materiality, and Cult Places of Pelagia the Penitent, Mary of Egypt, and Susanna of Eleutheropolis on 13 January, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Prof. Pavel Pavlovitch. Abstract Repentant harlots turned-to-be trans saints...

THE SEMINARS WORKING LANGUAGE IS BULGARIAN! The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a series of workshops under the theme: Forms of Ownership – Property in Communist Bulgaria On the 14th of January, 2022 we will convene the ninth meeting of the series: Copyright law during Socialism Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Petar Parvanov South-West University "Neofit...

Prof. Martin Ivanov (Pforzheimer Senior Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Feb ‘22) will present his research project on the topic: Between Nostalgia and Negation: Understanding the Social Change in Socialist Bulgaria on 20 January, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Prof. Roumen Avramov

Prof. Dr. Evgeny Troitskiy (Gerda Henkel Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Feb ‘22)  will present his research project on the topic: The Two “Great Games”: “Homo Ludens” in Central Asia on 03 February, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Evlogi Stanchev

Prof. Radoslav Dimitrov (MON Diaspora Fellow, Jan – Mar ‘22) will talk about his research on: Empty Institutions in World Politics on 17 February, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Delyan Rusev Abstract Why are some international institutions without any policymaking powers? Some international organizations are empty eggshells that are deliberately designed not...

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 24 February, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Elitza Stanoeva.