Third interdisciplinary conference Mirabilia: times, spaces, myths will be held on 8 and 9 June 2021 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS), Vasil Petleshkov Street No. 75. The event is organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the American Research Center in Sofia. The official opening will be on Tuesday, 8 June at 10:00 at the ARCS.

Participation in the event is also provided via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99851107582

Official languages of the conference ​​are Bulgarian, English, German and French.

Proceedings of the previous two conferences, Mirabilia: Miracles and Monsters (2014) and Mirabilia: Wonderful and Magical (2018) are published in the Studia Balcanica series:
Mirabilia: wonders and monsters. Sofia, 2016 (Studia balkanika 31), (ISSN 978-619-7179-05-7);
Mirabilia: Wonderful and magical. Sofia, 2020, (Studia balkanika 33), (ISSN 978-619-7179-05-7).

Some of the papers were also published in English in two separate books of Études balkaniques LII / 1, 2016, 7-27 (ISSN 0324-1645) and Études balkaniques LV / 1, 2019, 5–23, (ISSN 0324-1645).

Proceedings of the upcoming conference will be published in the Studia Balcanica series in one of the official languages of the event.

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This collective volume is the latest, the 13th edition of a scientific tradition of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology (IBSCT), which is already proud of over 20 years of history. It consists of 21 papers and articles, which were presented during the international scholarly conference under the same name. The event was held on June 17-18, 2019 in Sofia and was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Compilers of the volume that consists of 462 pages and many illustrations are Prof. Dr. habil. Svetlozar Eldarov, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Balcheva, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Irina Ognyanova and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Mindova.

The new Bulgarian-Croatian collective volume contains numerous and various testimonies of the richness of historical ties between the two peoples from the Middle Ages to present day. Its appearance on the Day of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of Slavic literature is timely and deeply symbolic.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the lecture of Prof. Liliana Simeonova, Dr. habil. The God-protected Constantinople. City with special status and limited access, 4th - 12th c.

The event will be held on May 25, 2021 (Tuesday) at 17h30 in Zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81024268754

This scholarly event is organized by the Seminar of the Center for Regional Studies and Analyzes (CRSA) at the Faculty of History of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.

Standpoint of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences regarding submitted for discussion draft of the National Program “Stimulation of the publishing activity of the research staff of the state higher education institutions in Bulgaria in the world databases Scopus and Web of Science"

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The Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Prof. Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva, D.A. "Ancient drama on the stage of the modern Greek theatre (late 19th c. - 1930s)".
The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on May 11, 2021 (Tuesday) at 17h00 in Zoom.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

https://zoom.us/j/94953582249
Meeting ID: 949 5358 2249

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The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences presents the online exhibition 'Georgi S. Rakovski: Bright mind and invincible spirit'. It is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great ideologue of the Bulgarian organized national liberation movement.

The exhibition presents interesting and unknown facts about the life and work of Georgi Rakovski as a publicist, revolutionary, inspirer and leader of the Bulgarian national liberation movement. It leads the audience in his footsteps in Kotel, Constantinople, Brăila, Belgrade, Marseille, Novi Sad, Odessa and Bucharest. Stories and impressions of his contemporaries complement the image of Rakovski as the most far-sighted and cosmopolitan person in the Bulgarian National Revival.

The exhibition is available here (audio and video).

The Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the first public event for 2021 organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday - a lecture delivered by Assist. Prof. Dr. Arch. Adriana Sarbova. The topic of her presentation is "Thracian cult buildings in the context of modern sacred spaces". The event will be held on April 13, 2021 (Tuesday) at 17h00 in Zoom.
We are looking forward to welcoming you!

https://zoom.us/j/94953582249
Meeting ID: 949 5358 2249

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The National Committee for Balkan Studies is pleased to organize the Tenth National Meeting on Balkan Studies on the topic National Liberation Movements in the Balkans. The event will be held on November 2 and 3, 2021 in Sofia. The participation will be in person in case of favorable development of the epidemic situation. The meeting is dedicated to two significant anniversaries - the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great ideologue of the Bulgarian organized national liberation movement, Georgi S. Rakovski, and the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution.

Please submit your application for 20 minutes presentation until May 31, 2021 to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Please write the title of the proposed paper (in Bulgarian and English) and a summary (up to 300 words). Аpproved applications will be announced by June 7, 2021.

No participation fee is required.
Participants are responsible for organizing and paying their travel costs to the venue of the event, as well as the accommodation and the daily allowances.

The papers will be subsequently published in a peer-reviewed volume.

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The Institute of Balkan Studies & Professor Alexander Fol Centre of Thracology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), with the support of the INFRAMAT Project and with the cooperation of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum of BAS, the Regional History of Sofia Museum, the Regional Archaeological Museum in Plovdiv and the Ministry of Culture are pleased to show the exhibition Cinnabar – the Royal Colour in Thracian and Roman Culture in the Bulgarian Lands, 2-16 March 2021, in the Sredets Art Gallery, 17, Alexander Stamboliyski Blvd. in Sofia. Numerous sacral buildings with colour decoration have been examined.

The pigments used for very few of them have been tested. They follow entirely the pattern of the Mediterranean context for decoration of monumental constructions. Cinnabar is extremely precious and is charged with definite meanings and functions that can be revealed more comprehensively only through complex research that is predetermined by its qualities. The exhibition presents some of the most impressive sacral sites of Thracian and Roman culture in the Bulgarian lands, where the use of cinnabar has been documented or tests of the pigments used have been planned.

On February 19, 2021 a virtual scholarly workshop The concept of bilingual word indices to the Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe evangelie ('Didactic Gospel') in the context of historical lexicography will be held. It is organised under the project The Vocabulary of Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe evangelie ('Didactic Gospel'): Old Bulgarian-Greek and Greek-Old Bulgarian Word Indices, funded by the BNSF under the contract KP-06-H50.

Free access to the workshop is available via ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/97785965057

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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that the latest book of Assoc. Prof. Dr. habil. Bisser Petrov Diplomacy and Diversion in the Balkans: British Policy Towards Albania during and after World War II (Sofia: Gutenberg Publishing House, 2020, ISBN 978-619-176-178-4, 306 p.) has been published.

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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that the book of Assist. Prof. Dr. Alexandra Milanova From Constantinople to Ioannina. Everyday Life in the Balkans through the Eyes of François Pouqueville (Sofia: IBSCT-BAS, 2020, ISBN 978-619-7179-16-3, 402 p.) has been published.

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

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