On April 12, 2019, there will be a one day discussion seminar ‘Monasticism in Late Antiquity’ starting at 10h00 at Hall 1 of Ancient Cultural-Information Complex Serdica (Largo), affiliated to the Regional History Museum-Sofia.
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We have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture of the Associate Professor at the University of Athens Vangelis Karamanolakis:
Unwanted past. The Security files on citizens and their destruction in Greece at the end of the Cold War (1989).
In 1989, the first and sole Greek government which houses representatives from both Right-wing and Left-wing parties, burned to ashes 17 500 000 dossier files concerning the political loyalty and reliability of citizens. The police have been keeping those files since the Interwar period. The lecture will focus on the interlink between the dossier files with the past Greek Civil War and the resistance of the academically engaged historical community from 1989 to such maltreatment of this important part of the country’s heritage.
This lecture is part of the events’ cycle ‘Each Second Tuesday’ and will take place on the April 9, 2019 at 16h00 at the Institute of Balkan Studies, located at Moskovska Street No. 45.
We have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture of Assistant Professor Ivaylo Nachev, PhD:
‘Sofia at the Beginning of the 20th Century. A tour around the modernising capital’.
This lecture is part of the events’ cycle ‘Each Second Tuesday’ and will take place on March 12, 2019 at 16h15 at the Institute of Balkan Studies, located at Moskovska Street No. 45.
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On March 5, 2019 IBSCT acknowledged with honours 50-years of academic activity of the pronounced academic of the Balkans Prof. Nadya Danova, Dr. habil., Dr. hc at the University of Athens. Among the various guests of the event was the representative of the ‘Greek-Bulgarian Association Aristotle – Cultural Bridge’ Mr. Ioannis Liolios, and other scientists from a variety of institutions.
The event began with a speech of the Director of the IBSCT Prof. Roumiana Preshlenova who presented the multi-spectral activity and scientific contributions, as well as the overall impact of the figure of Prof. Danova for the achievement of a positive collegial atmosphere at the Institute. Assoc. Prof. Yura Konstantinova, who has successfully completed her doctoral studies years ago under the supervision of Prof. Danova, talked about working with her. Marta Metodieva, a current PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Danova, also shared her feelings. Assoc. Prof. Rositsa Gradeva who has worked with Prof. Danova at the Institute for the longest period of time, also participated in the official part of the event. She gave a short speech about the overall contributions of Prof. Danova for the regional studies of the Balkans.
On February 26, 2019 Prof. Roumiana Preshlenova gave a lecture: ‘Vienna as an educational centre for Bulgarians’.
The lecture is part of the application of the National Scholarly Program ‘Cultural historical heritage, national memory and social development’ funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. It opened the Seminar of the Centre for Regional Research and Analyses of the Faculty of History at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Okhridski’.
On February 14, 2019, IBSCT organised the first Balkan Book Fair. We gave away old printed editions published by the Institute and offered new publications for a symbolic price. The event was met with great interest and wishes for a recent new edition.
Dear colleagues and friends,
We have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture of Assist. Prof. Slavcho Kirov, PhD ‘Administrative organisation of the Balkan provinces, 1st-3rd centuries’. It will take place on February 27, 2019 at 17h00 at the Institute of Balkan studies, located on Moskovska Street No. 45. The lecture is part of the project ‘Creation of the Late Antique World on the Balkans’.
The state of the 21st century. The authority and the state at the age of democracy: a crisis?
February 22, 2019 / 18h00 French Institute in Bulgaria
Free admission. The event will be available in French/Bulgarian
'At the age of democracy, are we, as society, faced at ‘a crisis of authority’ or more so, at ‘the end of authority’?' This is an open debate, but for more clarity, we need to differentiate authority from power, from obligations, and even from the reasonable argument. We also need to acknowledge that authority is a strange phenomenon who enhances (augere) power and the conviction in a reasonable argument. Finally, if we take a look at the origin of the forms of authority, we will understand that at the age of democracy, authority may be exactly at its dawn rather at its downfall.
Today a special guest of ours was Prof. Ivo Banac, the distinguished expert on nationalism in the Balkans. He was accompanied by his wife Prof. Andrea Feldman.
The visit of Prof. Banac in Sofia is at the invitation of the Society of Yale University graduates in Bulgaria.
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are pleased to invite you to presentation of the seventh issue of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology "Alexander Fol''s periodical BALKANI 7/2018. The presentation of the edition entitled 'Regional and European in the Balkans: ideas, projects, implementations (19th-20th centuries)' will take place on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 17h00 at the conference room of the IBSCT - BAS, located on Moskovska Street No. 45, Sofia.
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We have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture of the Assoc. Prof. Kamen Dimitrov, PhD ‘The Northwestern Bulgarian lands between the Rivers Timok and Yantra in Late Antiquity’ which will take place on December 11, 2018 at the Institute of Balkan Studies, located on Moskovska Street No. 45. The Lecture is part of the Initiative ‘Each Second Tuesday’ and project ‘Creation of the Late Antique World on the Balkans’.
The area under discussion was incorporated as a border area of the Late Roman Empire (after 395 – East Roman Empire) whose development was in general following a line of centralisation. Imperial foreign policy was focused mainly on protection of borders from external invasions through maintenance of the defensive fort infrastructure at Lower Danube limes and the military units that were stationed there. These forts were also centers and infrastructure for suppliers and trade with barbarians including, mostly through the Danube settlements.
On the website of the 'Ivo Pilar' Institute of Social Studies, Zagreb (Croatia), was published information about the Interdisciplinary conference 'Culture of travelling in the European Southeast', organized by the IBSCT - BAS. The event was held in the period 15-16 November 2018 at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEFSEM - BAS).
- PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK OF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARIYANA STAMOVA, PHD ‘THE ALBANIANS IN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA DURING THE LAST DECADE OF TITO’S YUGOLSAVIA (1981-1991)’ IN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATED IN ALBANIAN
- 'Heritage.BG' consortium makes a public call for associated partners under a project funded by OP 'Science and Education for Smart Growth'
- Scholar from IBSCT was elected corresponding member of the BAS
- Presenting the collective monograph 'The Refugee Crisis and the Balkans (2015-2016)'
- Presenting the collective monograph 'The Refugee Crisis and the Balkans (2015-2016)'