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We’re pleased to announce that the CAS Library’s online catalogue is now live. This new digital resource allows for easier...

Fifteen awardees will spend two weeks at interdisciplinary writing residency in Bulgaria hosted by ACLS and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.

CAS, in partnership with NEC, held the second SUS workshop on 7-8 March 2025.

The Centre for Advanced Study will be going on winter break between 20 December 2024 and 5 January 2025.

The Memorandum is a four-year extension of the existing programme implemented by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia to support young Bulgarian scientists and scientists from the Bulgarian diaspora.

Under the Advanced Academia Platform CAS Sofia offers a number of opportunities for postdoctoral researchers from the social sciences and the humanities for the 2025/2026 academic year.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for its Gerda Henkel Fellowship for fundamental historical research in the field of social sciences and humanities.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia together with New Europe College Bucharest announce a Call for Application for the "Social Relevance of the Humanities" fellowship programme.

Advanced Academia platform offers opportunity for Senior Bulgarian scholars to apply for 5-month research fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2025/2026.

9-month fellowships for Bulgarian scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2025/2026.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for the 2025/2026 RE-LINK Advanced Academia Fellowship Programme for fundamental research in the field of the humanities and social sciences for Bulgarian scholars residing abroad.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia is announcing a Call for Applications for the "Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship" programme for the Academic year 2025/2026.

Every year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries, including Bulgaria.

After the final session of the CAS Academic Advisory Council on the 21th of June and series of interviews conducted the...

Deadline 30 October 2024.
From June 5-20, 2025, the American University in Bulgaria will host the two-week residency convened by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.

Awardees will conduct research and writing at interdisciplinary residency in Bulgaria hosted by the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad

The EnvHistUA Research Group is pleased to announce the call for papers for the conference “Between the Local and the Global: Unpacking Environmental History of Ukraine” to be held on 25-26 September 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Application deadline: 15 May 2024.

The first conference under the Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS) program is organized by our partner institution, New Europe College Bucharest, and will be held in Bucharest on the 14th of March, within its premises. It will be in hybrid form and will bring together representatives of the founders of SUS – CAS and NEC institutes, as well as the other parties, involved in the making of the program - University of Sankt Gallen, and our donor VolkswagenStfiftung, our Ukrainian fellows and their colleagues, Dr. Katherine Younger, Research Director: Ukraine in European Dialogue at The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), and the special guests of the event – prominent Ukrainian authors Andrey Kurkov and Andriy Lyubka.

Under the Advanced Academia Platform CAS Sofia offers a number of opportunities for postdoctoral researchers from the social sciences and the humanities for the 2024/2025 academic year.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for its 2024/2025 in-residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for fundamental research in the field of social sciences and humanities.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia together wtih New Europe College Bucharest announce a Call for Application for the "Social Relevance of the Humanities" fellowship programme.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for its Gerda Henkel Fellowship for fundamental historical research in the field of social sciences and humanities.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia is announcing a Call for Applications for the "Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship" programme for the Academic year 2024/2025.

Advanced Academia platform offers opportunity for Senior Bulgarian scholars to apply for 5-month research fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2024/2025.

9-month fellowships for Bulgarian scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2024/2025.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for the 2023/2024 RE-LINK Advanced Academia Fellowship Programme for fundamental research in the field of the humanities and social sciences for Bulgarian scholars residing abroad.

Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries.

Deadline 2 November 2023.
From June 13-29, 2024, the American University in Bulgaria will host the two-week residency convened by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.

After the final session of the CAS Academic Advisory Council on the 24th of June and series of interviews conducted next week CAS granted its fellowships for 2023/2024 to the following scholars:

We invite applications for two Postdoctoral Fellow positions, one in Budapest and one in Sofia, within the project "Overcoming the Aggressor. Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations."

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS Sofia) and the New Europe College (NEC Bucharest) announce a Call for Applications for their joint programme to support scholars from the regions affected by Russia's war against Ukraine.

Under the Advanced Academia Platform CAS offers number of opportunities for postdoctoral researchers from the social sciences and the humanities for 2023-2024 academic year.

For fundamental research in the field of the humanities and social sciences for Bulgarian scholars residing abroad.

Advanced Academia platform offers opportunity for Senior Bulgarian scholars to apply for 5-months research fellowship at CAS for 2023/2024.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its GERDA HENKEL Fellowship for fundamental historical research in the field the social sciences and the humanities.

The ‘Social Relevance of the Humanities’ (RevHum) fellowship program, proposed jointly by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the New Europe...

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2023/2024 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for fundamental research in the fields of the humanities and
the social sciences.

9-months fellowships for Bulgarian scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2023-2024.

We are pleased to announce the newly opened call for applications to the 2023 Spring School “Archaeological Heritage Preservation and Cultural Heritage Discourses”.

Applications now open / Deadline 1 December, 2022. ACLS and CAS will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria in the summers 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Тhe Centre for Advanced Study will launch the eleventh cycle of the Public Lecture Series within its Advanced Academia programs.

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Bulgarian Scholars and Artists for the Academic Year 2023/2024 Each year the Swiss Confederation awards...

After the final session of the CAS Academic Advisory Council on the 17th of June and series of interviews conducted next...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2022/2023 RE-LINK ADVANCED ACADEMIA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR BULGARIAN RESEARCH DIASPORA ACTIVE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE...

The ‘Social Relevance of the Humanities’ (RevHum) fellowship program, proposed jointly by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the New Europe...

9-months fellowships for Bulgarian scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2022-2023.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its GERDA HENKEL Fellowship for fundamental historical research in the field the social sciences and the humanities.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2022/2023 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for fundamental research in the fields of the humanities and
the social sciences.

Advanced Academia platform offers opportunity for Senior Bulgarian scholars to apply for 5-months research fellowship at CAS for 2022/2023.

We invite you to apply for participation in an exploratory workshop on Informal practices in Southeast Europe – Examples and...

We are pleased to announce the newly opened call for applications to the Spring School “Local archaeologies and their interdisciplinary practices” to be held at the New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, 9-15 May 2022.

It is with deep sadness that we inform you about the passing of our colleague Violeta Kuzmanova.

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After a really competitive selection the CAS Academic Advisory Council approved for support within the 2021-2022 academic year the following scholars and their research projects:

for Bulgarian Scholars and Artists for the Academic Year 2022/2023

The book aims at a readership of both economists and historians. Beyond the well-known Weberian thesis concerning the role of Protestantism in the development of capitalism, monastic economies are studied to assess their impact on the religious patterns of economic behavior.

The new selection round and CAS Fellowship Calls for the next academic year 2022 / 2023 will be announced in Autumn 2021.

In the latest CAS Newsletter you can find a talk with Dr Nilay Kilinç, CAS Fellow of Gerda Henkel Fellowship Programme on OMNICULTURALISM as a way to
reconsider the understanding of social integration.

First Spring School:
THE IMPACT OF THE POLITICAL ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
19-24 April, 2021

Opening Conference:
LOOKING AT THINGS IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SEARCH OF VIABLE FUTURES
17-18 April 2021

[Deadline expired on 31 March, 2021] ]Up to nine month in-residence research fellowship offered jointly by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the New Europe College Bucharest. Deadline for applications: 31 March, 2021.

[Deadline expired on 31 March, 2021] The five-months in-residence fellowships are granted under the framework of the CAS Advanced Academia programme and supports PhD holders from the following countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Belarus, China , Kasakhstan...

[Deadline expired on 31 March, 2021] Advanced Academia programme offers opportunity for Senior Bulgarian scholars to apply for 5-months research fellowship at CAS for 2021/2022.

[Deadline expired on 31 March, 2021] 9-months fellowships for Bulgarian scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2021-2022.

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2021/2022 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for International Scholars in the field of the humanities and the social sciences.

3-months fellowships for Bulgarian scholars residing abroad.

Institutes for Advanced Study and the current pandemic – Potentials and capacities for the European Research Area

After a really competitive selection the CAS Academic Advisory Council approved for support within the 2020-2021 academic year the following scholars and their research projects:

for Bulgarian Scholars and Artists for the Academic Year 2021/2022

The project seeks to enroll three to five Junior Fellows for the period from March 2021 till March 2022. They should be late-stage PhD Students, Post-docs or Junior faculty from the fields of the human and social sciences, especially history, political science, economy, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Pilot phase project of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, 2019-2022, supported by the Centre for Culture and Governance in Europe, University of St. Gallen.

Advanced Academia programme offers opportunity for Senior Bulgarian scholars to apply for 5-months research fellowship at CAS for 2020/2021.

The five-months in-residence fellowships are granted under the framework of the CAS Advanced Academia programme and supports PhD holders from the following countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Belarus, China , Kasakhstan...

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2020/2021 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for International Scholars in the field of the humanities and the social sciences.

3-months fellowships for Bulgarian scholars residing abroad.

9-months fellowships for Bulgarian scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for 2020-2021.

A Spring School in the framework of the international research programme "The Construction of Knowledge in Archaeology and Art History in Southeastern Europe", Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia. 6-11 April 2020