On March 24, 2023, Bisser Banchev, PhD affiliated with the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was a guest on Euronews Bulgaria. He discussed the arrangement reached in Ohrid on how to implement the agreement signed in February of this year between Serbia and Kosovo.
The full interview is available here.
The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology in cooperation with the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are pleased to invite you to the public lecture of Assoc. Prof. Maria Torteka, PhD SMC in modern museum network of Ukraine: Problems of theory and practice.
The event will be held on March 28, 2023 (Tuesday) at 11:00 online via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81018731023
Meeting ID: 810 1873 1023
We are looking forward to welcoming you!
On March 14, 2023, Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of sciences handed over to the director of the Regional History Museum in Silistra the certificates of the participants in the training of museum specialists, which was successfully held in February. Museum specialists had the opportunity to listen to eight lectures and participate in the subsequent discussions, asking important questions for their scholarly research. The discussion format after each lecture allowed lecturers to enrich their scholarly knowledge with new information provided by the museum specialists.
The training of museum specialists will continue in the upcoming months.
On March 13, 2023, the third meeting of the "Unknown Balkans" Discussion Club was held. The topic was "Medicine and health care in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries". The leading debaters Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Assist. Prof. Ivaylo Nachev, PhD presented the development of medicine and health care in several Balkan countries in the period from the 1870s to the middle of the 20th century. Prof. Stefan Panayotov, D.Sc. from the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and Prof. Georgeta Nazarska, PhD affiliated with the University of Library Science and Information Technology actively participated in the discussion. Students and researchers, interested in the history of medicine in the Balkans also took part.
The Discussion Club is organized by the "Unknown Balkans" project, part of the Building a supreme achievements centre "Heritage BG".
Media appearances of Marian Karagyozov, political analyst affiliated with the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, about the upcoming elections in the Republic of Turkey.
The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Svetoslav Stamov (IBSCT-BAS) Archaeogenetics in history – promises and pitfalls.
The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on March 14, 2023 (Tuesday) at 17:00 online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89489470402
We are looking forward to welcoming you!
This lecture is organized under the project "Ages of history - integration of genetic methods in historical research", funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund, contract No. KП-06-Н70-8/13.12.2022.
We are pleased to invite you to the third meeting of the "Unknown Balkans" Discussion Club, which will be held on March 13, 2023. Prof. Alexandre Kostov, D. Sc., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Assist. Prof. Ivaylo Nachev, PhD will discuss the topic "Medicine and health care in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries".
The event will take place on March 13, 2023 at 16:00 at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at Moskovska Street No. 45. The discussion is open to everyone.
The "Unknown Balkans" Discussion Club is organized under the project Building a supreme achievements centre "Heritage BG".
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The Discussion Club "The Unknown Balkans" is an initiative of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and is implemented as part of the project Building a supreme achievements centre "Heritage BG". For nearly a year, scholars from the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology, together with guests from other academic institutions in the country, will discuss monthly lesser-known or trivial historical processes focused on the Balkans. The events are open to anyone who wants to participate in the discussions and will be held on Moskovska Street No. 45.
Dear colleagues,
The two-volume collection of papers "Ancient Thrace: Myth and Reality. The Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Thracology, Kazanlak, September 3-7, 2017", St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, Vol. 1-2, Sofia, 2022, ISBN 978-954-07-5263-3 has been published.
It contains the papers from the 13th International Congress of Thracology. It is prepared as a joint publication of University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", NAIM-BAS, IBSCT-BAS and Historical Museum "Iskra" - Kazanlak, edited by Petar Delev, Totko Stoyanov, Svetlana Yanakieva, Hristo Popov, Anelia Bozhkova, Maya Vasileva, Yulia Tsvetkova, Margarit Damyanov, Petya Ilieva, Juliy Emilov.
The volumes contain 101 of the reports presented at the congress, which cover various areas of the Thracology Studies, presented for publication by 119 authors from 17 countries.
The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the collective volume "Russia: Balkan Perspectives (19-20 cc.)" edited and compiled by Prof. D.Sc. Yura Konstantinova and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tina Georgieva. The event will be held on March 7, 2023 (Tuesday) 17:00 in Hall No. 1 of the Sofia University Rectorate.
We are looking forward to welcoming you!
The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Prof. Bisser Petrov, Dr. habil. The First Western Paramilitary Operation Against Eastern Europe. The event is organized in pursuance to Art. 19 (19) of the Annex to the Regulations of the Scientific Council of the IBSCT-BAS regarding terms and conditions for acquiring scientific degrees and for holding academic positions.
The lecture will be held on March 7, 2023 (Tuesday) at 15:00 at the IBSCT-BAS (Moskovska Street No. 45).
We are looking forward to welcoming you!
On February 15, 2023, in the Prof. Marin Drinov Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences the book “Identità europea e radici cristiane. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studio, Veliko Tarnovo, 26 maggio 2018” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2021), edited by Kiril Kartaloff, was presented. The prestigious edition is a result of the scholarly conference The Christian Roots of Europe, held in Veliko Tarnovo in 2018 under the patronage of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, the Vatican Apostolic Library, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union, St. John XXIII Foundation - Bergamo, and University of Veliko Turnovo St Cyril and St. Methodius.
Participants were welcomed by Prof. Dr. Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, H. E. Msgr. Luciano Suriani, Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria and North Macedonia and Mr. Arnaud Boberὸ, Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation, on behalf of the Embassy of France and the French Institute in Bulgaria.
The book was presented by the bishop of the Nikopol Diocese, H. Exc. Msgr. Strahil Kavalenov and the President of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences Father Bernard Ardurà, O. Praem.
The event ended with performances by the Academic men's choir "Gusla" under the leadership of its chief conductor Maestro Acad. Valentin Bobévski.