"European influences in the modern urban music culture in the Balkans. Bibliographic research" of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the only project in the filed of Humanities that has been selected for funding based on the Bulgarian Science Fund 2019 Competition for financial support for fundamental research projects of junior researchers and postdoctoral fellows. This is an interdisciplinary project featuring representatives of the Institute of the IBSCT-BAS, the National Music School “Lyubomir Pipkov” and the Institute of Musicology at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It will create a bibliographic corpus covering different types and genres of materials and documents on the topic of scholarly research, through collection, digitization, systematization, classification and cataloguing of documents and materials.

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Тhe Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology 'Prof. Alexander Fol' at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the latest book of Prof. Valeria Fol, Dr. habil. "Thracian secret societies".

The event will be held on February 25, 2020 (Tuesday) at 16h00 in the main building of the Institute of Balkan Studies located on Moskovska Street No. 45.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

We are pleased to invite you to the first public event for 2020 organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday - a lecture delivered by Prof. Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva, D.A. The topic of her presentation is "Orphism and the Italian Renaissance". 

The event will be held on February 11, 2020 (Tuesday) at 16h00 in the main building of the Institute of Balkan Studies located on Moskovska Street No. 45.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Dear colleagues and friends,

On February 14, we celebrate three important feasts: the Assumption of St. Cyril Slavic Bulgarian, the feast of St. Trifon Zarezan (old style), celebrated as the Day of the vine grower, and St. Valentine. The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences traditionally celebrates this day organizing Balkan Book Fair. We give away our old printed editions (one publication per person) and offer new editions at reduced price.

The third edition of the traditional Balkan Book Fair will be held on February 14 (Friday) from 15h00 to 17h00 in the main building of the Institute of Balkan Studies, located on Moskovska Street No. 45.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

On January 30 and 31, 2020, Consortium of the National Interdisciplinary Research E-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies for the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, integrated within the European Infrastructures CLARIN-ERIC and DARIAH (CLADA-BG), organized a meeting, which took place at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to present the results of the implementation of Stage 1, as well as to plan activities for the next Stage 2.

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We are pleased to invite you to the first public event for 2020 organised under the project 'LABedia: Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity in the Balkans' - a lecture delivered by Yannis Kaminis, PhD student at the Faculty of Theology at Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski'. The topic of his presentation is 'Christian asceticism without borders. Evagrius Ponticus and his influence on the Christian world'.

The event will be held on January 21, 2020 (Tuesday) at 17h00 at the Institute of Balkan Studies located on Moskovska Street No. 45.

This lecture is organized under the project 'LABedia: Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity in the Balkans', funded by the National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science.

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On December 13, 2019 during the 47th edition of the Sofia International Book Fair the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology 'Prof. Alexander Fol' at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences oragnized presentation of the collective monograph 'Thessaloniki and the Bulgarians: history, memory, present' (compilers and editors: Yura Konstantinova, Nadia Danova and Yordan Zhelev, publisher: Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology–BAS, 2019).

The monograph was officially presented by the Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology Prof. Roumiana Preshlenova, by the reviewer Assoc. Prof. Dobrinka Parusheva, as well as by the project manager Assoc. Prof. Yura Konstantinova.

The event was met with great media interest and was attended by more than 100 people, including representatives of the academic community, descendants of expatriate families and readers, tempted by the past and present of this Aegean seaside city.

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Поредица „Градът на Балканите и отвъд: пространства, образи, памет”
БНР Радио София

Солун - очарователен град, с богата история с участието на доц. д-р Юра Константинова

Загреб не е град-музей, а много жива и активна столица с участието на проф. дин Светлозар Елдъров

Вечният град Истанбул с участието на гл. ас. д-р Калина Пеева

Букурещ - да се "разходим" в няколко минути с доц. д-р Добринка Парушева

Виена - имперско излъчване и люлка на великите музикални майстори с участието на проф. д-р Румяна Прешленова

Красивата Словения - славянски чар и западноевропейска култура с участието на гл. ас. д-р Ивайло Начев

Поредица „Писмото или изкушенията на парадокса” с участието на днк Маргарита Серафимова
Програма „Христо Ботев“ на БНР

Писмото или изкушенията на парадокса - част 1. Присъствие, близост – отсъствие, отдалеченост

Писмото или изкушенията на парадокса - част 2. Женска спонтанност – мъжка премисленост

Писмото или изкушенията на парадокса - част 3. Документ – фикция, реалност – въображение

Писмото или изкушенията на парадокса - част 4. Писмото в информационния свят

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the latest issue 8/2019 of the periodical of the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology 'Prof. Alexander Fol'

BALKANI 8/2019: WEEKDAYS AND HOLIDAYS IN THE BALKANS

The event will be held on December 17, 2019 (Tuesday) at 15h30 at the Institute of Balkan Studies located on Moskovska Street No. 45.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

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Тhe Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology 'Prof. Alexander Fol' at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences oragnize presentation of the collective monograph 'Thessaloniki and the Bulgarians: history, memory, present' (compilers and editors: Yura Konstantinova, Nadia Danova and Yordan Zhelev).

The event will be held on December 13, 2019 (Friday) from 16h00 to 17h00 at the National Palace of Culture (Bulgaria Square No. 1), as part of the 47th edition of the Sofia International Book Fair.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

On December 10, 2019 (Tuesday) at 17h00 at the Institute of Balkan Studies located on Moskovska Street No. 45, there will be a presentation of the book 'Inventory of the documents relating to the economic history of Bulgaria. Part One (1648-1879)' (Publisher: St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library, 2019) by Vera Vasileva (compiler).

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

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On December 10, 2019 (Tuesday) at 16h00 at the Institute of Balkan Studies located on Moskovska Street No. 45, there will be a presentation of the latest book of Prof. Raya Zaimova, Dr. habil., entitled 'Living history or remembrance of a family from Thessaloniki' (Publisher: Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology–BAS, 2019).

We are looking forward to welcoming you!