The regular meeting of the CAS Academic Council to select the CAS Fellows for the academic year 2021-2022, has been scheduled for Friday the 25th of June, 2021. 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...
THE SEMINARS WORKING LANGUAGE IS BULGARIAN! The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a new series of workshops under the theme: Forms of Ownership – Property in Communist Bulgaria On the 25th of June, 2021 we will convene the sixth meeting of the series: "The birth of personal property (and the construction right)" Lecturer: Prof....
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the Centre for the Study of Religions at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" are inviting you to a Roundtable Religion and Extremism in the Western Balkans Within the PREVEX Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870724. Date: Wednesday, 7...
Dr. Elitza Stanoeva (MON Fellow, Oct ‘21 – Jun ‘22) will give introductory talk on the topic: Fellows Seminar: Architects and Heritage Demolition in Late Socialism and After: Politics of History versus Politics of Profession on 21 October, 2021 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Dr. Aneta Vassileva. This presentation will outline my project’s research...
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...
