Completed Programmes

"Academic Dialogues" Guest Lecture Series

Parallel
to CAS’ successful guest-lecture programme with prominent international
scholars, in 2006 the Centre launched its Bulgarian guest-lecture
series under the title `Academic Dialogues`. The idea behind the series
that is supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science is
to provide a presentation platform for vanguard and innovative research
communities in Bulgaria working in the social sciences and humanities.
Under the series CAS invites distinguished Bulgarian scholars and
leaders of research groups to present the mission, the history, the
activities and the research results of the group at the monthly
‘Academic Dialogues’ lecture. Besides the presentation of the academic
group, the audience attracted by the series enjoys listening to a
specialised lecture within the group’s area of research and
representative of its methodology, and can participate in the vivid
discussions concluding each event.

EVENTS

May 11, 2006

Assoc. Prof. Boicho Kokinov, director of the Central
and East European Center for Cognitive Science presented the mission
and activities of the Center and gave the lecture `Do we Remember the
Past, or do we Construct it? Is Human Memory an Illusion?`

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June 8, 2006

Prof. Georgi Dimitrov, Assoc. Prof. Svetla
Strashimirova, Valentin Danchev (Association for Social Research and
Applied Research Practices) presented the mission and activities of the
Association. prof. Dimitrov gave the lecture `The Crisis of Bulgarian
Education as a Symptom of the Anachronism of the Contemporary State
Governance`.

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October12, 2006

Prof. Tzotcho Boyadjiev and Prof. Georgi Kapriev
(Institute for Medieval Philosophy and Culture) presented the mission
and activities of the Institute. Prof. Tzotcho Boyadjiev gave the
lecture `Rome – a Faraway City`.

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November 9, 2006

Prof. Alexander Fedotoff presented the history,
publishing activities and programmes of the Centre for Eastern
Languages and Cultures (Sofia University) and gave the lecture: `Daoist
Escapism in the Medieval Korean Poetry`

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