The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova, PhD (IBSCT-BAS) “European influences in the modern urban music culture in the Balkans. Bibliographic research”.

The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on February 8, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17h00 in Zoom.

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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 Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Sirakov, PhD "The Thracians and the wine".

The event is organized following the procedure for awarding the academic position of Associated Professor in the field of higher education 3. Social, economic and legal sciences, professional field 3.1. Sociology, anthropology and cultural sciences for Regional History Museum - Sliven. It will be held on February 3, 2022 (Thursday) at 16h00 in Zoom.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

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Young scientists and scholars from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) were awarded in a competition in the field of Natural Sciences and Mathematics as well as in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. The awards are named after famous scientists from the Academy, as well as foreign members of BAS, on the occasion of their anniversaries.

For 2021 the awards are in the names of Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, a foreign member of BAS and Acad. Azarya Polikarov, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of their birth.

Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova, PhD from the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology was awarded for her book “From Constantinople to Ioannina. Everyday life in the Balkans through the eyes of François Pouqueville” (Sofia: IBSCT-BAS, 2020). The monograph is part of the implementation of the National Scientific Program Cultural Heritage, National Memory and Social Development, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science by Decision of the Council of Ministers № 577 of August 17, 2018. The book is available in the digital library of the IBSCT-BAS.

The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Martina Deneva (exhibition designer, PhD student, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) “Museum exhibitions as a bridge between content and audience”.

The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on January 11, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17h00 in Zoom.

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On December 21, 2021 at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology (IBSCT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Bulgarian and English editions of the collective volume "Contemporary Balkans. The Challenges of the 21st century" (Tendril Publishing House). Its compiler is Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The book is dedicated to the challenges facing the Balkans at the beginning of the new decade of 21st century and examines both their development so far and emerging trends in the short and the long term. The book offers a serious academic analysis of the processes taking place in the region in the context of increasingly complicated international relations and transition from one crisis to another. The European integration and enlargement of NATO with their achievements and problems in the European Southeast are also taken into account. The monograph presents the leading trends in the development of each of the countries in the region in domestic and foreign policy, highlighting the main priorities in the field of economy, politics and security, as well as existing problems with potential for conflict and instability. Special attention is paid to the influence of external factors on the region. To this end, the monograph includes three chapters showing the place of the Balkan countries in the changing strategy and behavior of the EU, NATO and Russia.

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The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Prof. Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, PhD (IBSCT-BAS) “Balkan Studies, Diplomacy and Politics. 100 years since the birth of Acad. Nikolai Todorov”.

The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on December 14, 2021 (Tuesday) at 17h00 in Zoom.

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Meeting ID: 949 5358 2249

On December 2, 2021, the volume Montana: a modern city of 130 years (Tendril Publishing House) was presented in the exhibition hall of the Regional History Museum in Montana. Its compiler is Prof. Dr. habil. Alexandre Kostov, Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The book is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the proclamation of the village (Golyama) Kutlovitsa as a town named after the Bulgarian prince Ferdinand. Thus begins a new stage in the history of the place, formed in Antiquity. Its development over the past thirteen decades has undergone major socio-economic and political transformations. Perhaps, the proof of these frequent and profound changes during this period is the change of its name - from Kutlovitsa to Ferdinand (1891) and Mihaylovgrad (1945) to reach today's - Montana (since 1993), reminiscent of the ancient past of this settlement.

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On November 23, 2021 at the Institute of Balkan Studies, in compliance with all anti-epidemic measures, the tenth issue of BALKANS, the scholarly journal of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) was presented. It is dedicated to the round anniversary of his creation. This was suggested by the theme of the issue: '10 years of BALKANS'. The editor-in-chief Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences gave a brief but emotional review of the past 10 years against the background of an attractive retrospective presentation.

Articles selected for the current issue are devoted to significant problems of different periods of the history of the Balkan region. Their authors are prepared by prominent and established scholars of the IBSCT-BAS. The articles of the three prominent scholars who participated as authors in the first issue - Valeria Fol, Maria Todorova and Galya Valtchinova - are also included in the anniversary edition.

One of the missions of this issue is to present in attractive and informative way all the resent aspects of the rich scholarly and social activity of the Institute's team, designed in the separate sections "Balkan Studies Chronicles", "New Books" and "Reviews". This issue also aims at paying a well-deserved tribute to notable personalities in the history of scholarly research in Southeast Europe through the section "Personalia".

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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that the book “Cities in the Balkans: Spaces, Faces, Memories” (Sofia: IBSCT-BAS, 2021, ISBN 978-619-7179-20-0, 358 p.) has been published.

This volume was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under Cultural Heritage, National Memory and Social Development National Research Program approved by DCM No. 577 of 17 August 2018.

The book is available at the IBSCT-BAS (Moskovska Street No. 45).

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The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to present its latest initiative, the podcast "Let's talk about the Balkans".

Our guest in the first episode is Mr. Kiril Valchev, Director General of the Bulgarian News Agency.

To learn when new episodes are released, follow the podcast and get a notification as they become available. "Let's talk about the Balkans" is listed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Listen Notes, Player FM, Podcast Index or RSS Feed.

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The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Stela Stefanova, PhD (IBSCT-BAS) "Roman archaeological heritage in Southwestern Bulgaria as a resource for cultural tourism".

The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on November 9, 2021 (Tuesday) at 17h00 in Zoom.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

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Meeting ID: 949 5358 2249

On the occasion of the Day of the National Revival Leaders, in the centre of Sofia, His Eminence the Bishop of Adrianople Evlogiy, abbot of the Rila Мonastery and Prof. Roumiana Preshlenova, PhD, Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) opened the exhibition The Heart of Bulgaria. Masterpieces from the Rila Monastery. The exhibition is designed by a team of the IBSCT-BAS under the National Research Program Cultural Historical Heritage, National Memory and Social Development, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. The exhibition is organized with the blessing and in cooperation with the Rila Monastery, the National Commission of Bulgaria for UNESCO at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Culture Directorate of Sofia Municipality.

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