Natural Sciences, Technologies and Social Worlds The present day is considered normal if we start our day on the scales in the bathroom, with a portion of calories in the kitchen, then we go through the minutes and the several kilometers of public transport timetables and finish at home watching TV about the number of...
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) / Vol. IV / Anti-Modernism – Radical Revisions of Collective Identity Edited by Diana Mishkova (Center for Advanced Study Sofia), Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University), and Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University, Budapest) The last volume of the series presents 46 texts under the heading of...
Death under Socialism: Heroics and Post-Heroics Compiled and edited by Daniala Koleva, ISBN 978-954-320-444-1 The way we die reveals the essential qualities of the way we live. Could there be then something like ‘a socialist death’ to correspond to ‘a socialist lifestyle’? Undoubtedly, death is a universal biological fact free from the impact of ideologies,...
This volume represents the outcomes of the collective project “Regimes of Historicity” hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. It a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in Southeastern and Northern Europe, reconstructing the ways in which different “temporalities” produced alternative representations of the past and...
Bulgarian Communism – Debates and Interpretations Edited by Mihail Gruev and Diana Mishkova, ISBN 978-954-320-434-2 This collection compiles research materials that came as a result from a round table discussion titled Bulgarian Communism – Two Decades Later (2011) which was organized by NGOs and representatives of the academic circles in Bulgaria. The research papers are...
The book “Labour, Joy, Leisure and Culture” contains two studies by Prof. Ivan Elenkov that were elaborated during his work under the Advanced Academia Programme. The first study follows the activities of state-run Labour and Joy Unit between 1941 and 1944, and the metamorphoses of its successor in 1945 – Recreation and Culture for the...
The volume under the title “The (Un)Established Rule of Law in Bulgaria” was published in September 2012 as part of the CAS Research Forum series. This volume comes as a result of the CAS Discussion Series “Consolidation/Disintegration of Public Institutions and Political Process”, (2010-2011). The volume is genealogically related to a recently completed CAS international...
Modernism – Representations of National Culture Vol. III/2 Edited by: Vangelis Kechriotis (Boğazici University, Istanbul), Maciej Górny (Warsaw University), and Ahmet Ersoy (Boğazici University, Istanbul) Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. The...
MODERNISM – THE CREATION OF NATION-STATES Vol. III/1 Edited by: Vangelis Kechriotis (Boğazici University, Istanbul), Maciej Górny (Warsaw University), and Ahmet Ersoy (Boğazici University, Istanbul). This is the first part of the third volume, containing 59 texts. This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the “modern” successors of former empires....
The studies collected in this publication come as a result of the CAS seminar series “Childhood under Socialism”, which was organized in the broader framework of the two-year-long Atelier for Biographical Research. The surveys display a variety of views on the topic of the political projects on childhood imposed by the socialist regime in the...
