Events

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)"

Abdulhamit Kırmızı (Gerda Henkel Fellow, Oct '22 – Feb '23) will talk about his research at CAS "An Empire of Officials: Christians in the Ottoman Bureaucracy" on 2 February 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Slavka Karakusheva.

(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, 15 February 2023 we are pleased to announce the lecture by Assoc. Prof. Martin Ivanov, who will present on the topic "Towards an Ever Fuller Satisfaction of the Needs of the Workers": Is the Standard of Living in Communist Bulgaria Improving?

Viacheslav Grekov (Möllgaard Non-Residence Fellow, Oct '22 – Feb '23) will talk about his research at CAS: Interpretation of the “Rus” Concept in the Ukrainian and Russian Historiography in the Russian Empire (1805–1917) on 16 February 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Martin Valkov. Abstract: The "Rus" concepts and the history of Rus are...

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 The discussion series will continue with a lecture by Prof. Pencho Penchev on: "On the Harm of...

(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 March 2023 we are pleased to announce the lecture by Dr. Valentin Kalinov, who will present on the topic "Between Repression and Resistance - A Look at the History of Psychoanalysis in Totalitarian Bulgaria (1947-1989)."

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 The discussion series will continue with a lecture by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Todorov on: "The Sheepherder...

(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, 15 March 2023 we are pleased to announce the lecture by Dr. Elitsa Stanoeva, who will present on the topic "Policies of professionalization versus policies of memory: architects and the destruction of architectural heritage".

Dr. Federico Brusadelli (Advanced Academia Fellow, Feb – July ‘23) will talk about his research at CAS: Intellectuals in Republican China and the Reception of Ancient Greek Political Concepts, 1911-1929 on 16 March, 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30 h. Moderated by Luka Nakhutsrishvili. Abstract: After the humiliating defeat with Japan in 1895, the élites of the...

Peter Dobrev (MON Fellow, Oct ’22 – Jul ’23) will talk about the progress of his research at CAS: The Fight against the Kulaks in Bulgaria – the Fate of the Large Landowners in Dobrudja after 1944 on 23 March, 2023 (Thursday) at 16:30h. Moderated by Daehwan Kim.