Assoc. Prof. Martin Belov will present the work in progress on his project “Constitutional Semiotics. Theory of Imaginative, Visual and Emotional Discourses in Constitutional Law” on 5 March 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30h at CAS conference hall.
Ivaylo Nachev will present the work in progress on his project “The Politics of Street Names: Naming and Renaming Public Spaces in the Bulgarian Capital City of Sofia, 1878 - 2018” on 12 March 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30h at CAS conference hall.
Prof. Robert Appelbaum will present online via Zoom his research proposal on the topic: "The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare" on 2 April 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30h.
Prof. Margaret Dimitrova will present online via Zoom his research proposal on the topic: "The Athonite Monk Panteleimon (ca. before 1785 – after 1850): An Excellent Bulgarian Preacher" on 9 April 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30h.
Dr. Stoyan Shivarov will present online via Zoom his research proposal on the topic: "Lost Pages: (Ottoman) Turkish Language Periodicals in Bulgaria (1878 – 1944). Muslim Tradition versus Nationalism" on 16 April 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30h.
Dr. Nilay Kilinç will present online via Zoom her research proposal on the topic: "Highly-Skilled Turkish Migrants’ Search for ‘Alternative Diaspora Spaces’ in Europe: How Do They Build Social and Career Networks Beyond the ‘Cultures of Rejection’?".
Dr. Alessandro Nannini will present online via Zoom his research proposal on the topic: "Aesthetics as “medicina mentis”? A Reconsideration of the Origins of Aesthetics as a Philosophical Science" on 30 April 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30h.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Irina Gordeeva will present online via Zoom her research proposal on the topic: "Tolstoyans and International Pacifist Movement in the 1920-1930s: The Early History of European Transnational Solidarity" on 14 May 2020, at 16:30h.
Dr. Svetoslava Toncheva will present online via Zoom her research proposal on the topic: "Living with or versus Nature? - Mitigation of Human-Bear Conflicts as a Bridge towards "Politics of Conviviality"" on 21 May 2020, at 16:30h.
The regular meeting of the CAS Academic Council to select the CAS Fellows for the academic year 2020-21, has been scheduled for 19 June 2020. The evaluation of candidates and their research proposals will be carried out in five fellowship modules: Advanced Academia for international fellows; Gerda Henkel Fellowships for scholars from the ex-Soviet space...
The project seeks to place the current anti-liberal and anti-democratic backlash in Eastern Europe, arguably manifesting the all-European socio-political and ideological crisis in its most acute form, into a comparative historical perspective. It raises fundamental questions concerning the intellectual contribution and responsibility of those local and international actors (scholars, experts, think-tanks, NGOs, public intellectuals, etc.)...
In the beginning of October the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia marks the formal start of its regular academic activities for the the forthcoming academic year - 2020 / 2021.
He will focus on the broad outline of the project, dealing in particular with the general question of why and how aesthetics could have emerged as a medicine for the mind and what role it was supposed to play in the preservation of health.
Dr. Alexander Popov will present his research proposal on the topic: Narrating AI. Speculating through Science and Fiction on the Future of Machine and Human Intelligence on 22 October, 2020 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved tremendous successes, such as driving automobiles in urban environments, and beating the best human players...
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 23rd of October we will convene the first meeting of the series: The Rise of Socialist Property and the Rescue of Civil Legislation in Bulgaria, Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Stoyan Stavru
