The Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria are organizing an international scholarly conference “Bulgarian Civil Society against the Holocaust during the Second World War”. The program includes reports by specialists on the topic from Israel, Austria, Romania, France, Slovenia and Bulgaria.

The conference will be held in Sofia on May 26 and 27, 2023. The event is part of the National Program to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War and the Sofia Municipality Calendar of Cultural Events.

The official opening of the conference will take place on 26th of May 2023 at 10:00 in the hall of Serdika Ancient Cultural and Communication Complex, Largo area.

The event is organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture.

PROGRAMME

On May 19, 2023, in the "Ivan Evstr. Geshov" Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) an international conference "Historical Bulgarian Studies outside Bulgaria: State-of-the-art and Perspectives" will be held. This is the latest scholarly forum organized by the Bulgarian Studies Council at the BAS and is dedicated to the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian Alphabet, Education and Culture, and of Slavic Literature. Co-organizers are the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Tracology and the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences under the National Scientific Programme "Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad". 23 scholars from Bulgaria and abroad will take part in the conference. Their reports and speeches will address the state-of-the-art of historical Bulgarian studies in 14 countries in Europe and Asia.

PROGRAMME

The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to the next meeting of the "Unknown Balkans" Discussion Club, which will be held on May 22, 2023. Assoc. Prof. Ivo Topalilov, PhD and Assoc. Prof. Zlatomira Gerdzhikova, PhD will discuss the topic "Christianity - religion, politics and society in Late Antiquity".

The event will be held on May 22, 2023 at 16:00 at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 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".

The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) is pleased to invite you to the public lecture of Assist. Prof. Samuil Kamburov, PhD (IBSCT-BAS) entitled "Data on cold weapons in written sources (6th - 9th centuries)".

The event will be held on May 17, 2023 (Wednesday) at 17h00 in the building of the IBSCT-BAS (Moskovska Street No. 45) and online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86513444853

We look forward to your attendance!

This lecture is organized under the project "Going Through War: The Medieval Military Experience in the Balkans and Its Social Implications", funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund, contract No. KП-06-М70-3/15.12.2022.

On May 11 and 12, 2023, in the Ivan Ev. Geshov Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the First National Trachology Conference "Geopolitics and Society in Ancient Thrace" was held. The event was organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Trachology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The conference was attended by 40 scholars from 13 scientific and cultural institutions (IBSCT-BAS, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", South-West University "Neofit Rilski", National Science Club - UNESCO, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, University of Veliko Turnovo St. St. Cyril and Methodius, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Regional Archaeological Museum - Plovdiv, Trident Technical College, Regional History Museum - Yambol,Regional History Museum - Sliven, Institute of Solid State Physics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, History Museum - Perushtitsa). They presented reports or posters on various topics from prehistory to the late antique era in the Bulgarian lands in two main areas - political development of the Thracian states and development of Thracian society and culture.

A side event of the conference was the opening of the exhibition "The pedestrian...and his companions. 90 years since the birth of Prof. Alexander Fol", dedicated to the founder of the Institute of Tracology, today Centre of Tracology "Prof. Alexander Fol". The exhibition was prepared by Assoc. Prof. Kalin Stoev, PhD and PhD student Eli Filipova with the courtesy of Prof. Valeria Fol, Dr. habil. and the support of INFRAMAT. The exhibition will be on display in the lobby of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (15 November Street No. 1) until May 24, 2023.

Read more ...

User Rating: 5 / 5

On May 13, 2023, the photo documentary exhibition "The Heart of Bulgaria. Masterpieces from the Rila Monastery" was presented at the Péter Melius Juhász Library in the second largest Hungarian city - Debrecen. The exhibition was prepared by a team of the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with the blessing of the Abbot of the Rila Monastery and the courtesy of the State Cultural Institute to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria. The event was organized in cooperation with the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Budapest and was part of the official program to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bulgarian Minority Self-Government in Debrecen.

At the opening of the exhibition, greetings were given by His Excellency Hristo Polendakov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to Hungary, Mr. Plamen Peykov, Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Budapest, Mr. Simeon Varga, Advocate of the Bulgarian Minority Community in the Hungarian Parliament and Mr. Dancho Musev, Chairman of the Bulgarian republican self-government in Hungary. In their speech, along with congratulating the attendees, they emphasized the fact that the exhibition is shown Debrecen a few days after its presentation at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the inclusion of the Rila Monastery in the UNESCO World Heritage List .

Read more ...

On May 10 to 12, 2023, the Second International Conference of the National E-infrastructure for Bulgarian Linguistic and Cultural Heritage CLaDa.BG Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTaDH-RA) was held in Sofia. Two researchers and a specialist from the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences participated in the event. Assist. Prof. Dr. Ivaylo Nachev together with Prof. Kiril Simov and Dr. Zhivko Angelov (IICT) presented a joint project developed by them on the topic "Streets of Sofia". Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatomira Gerdzhikova presented the online encyclopedia LABedia, and Dr. Stamatia Fotiadou presented an interactive story about the role of the railway in the development of Alexandroupolis (Dedeagach).

Read more ...

The project of the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences "The Vocabulary of Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe evangelie ('Didactic Gospel'): Old Bulgarian-Greek and Greek-Old Bulgarian Word Indices" (Contract No. № КП-06-Н50/2), led by Prof. Lora Taseva, will be presented during Sofia Science Festival.

We are looking forward to seeing you on May 12, 2023 (Friday) from 15h00 to 16h30 at the Bulgarian National Science Fund stand on level 0 in Sofia Tech Park, John Atanasov building.

Prof. Lora Taseva affiliated with the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was a guest in the program "For the words" on the Bulgarian National Radio, Hristo Botev Program.

She presented the activities carried out by the international team of scholars led by her 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 Bulgarian National Science Fund.

As part of the project, an international scholarly conference "Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe Evangelie ('Didactic Gospel') and the South Slavic translations of homiletic texts (9th-13th centuries): Philological and interdisciplinary perspectives" was held in Sofia. Prominent scholars and young researchers from Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic took part in the event.

Prof. Roland Marti from Saarbrücken, honorary doctor of Sofia University and holder of the Order of "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" and Prof. Alessandro Maria Bruni from Ca' Foscari University, Venice.

The full recording of the show is available here.

User Rating: 5 / 5

On May 16, 2023 (Tuesday) at 16h00 in the New Bulgarian University, building I, floor 4, the exhibition Egyptian Cults on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast will be opened. The exhibition is organized by the Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology and the Institute of Balkan Studies and Alexander Fol Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The monuments presented in the exhibition originate from the ancient cities located on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast: Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol), Messambria (Nessebar), Anhialo (Pomorie), Odessos (Varna) and Dionysopolis (Balchik). They are divided into five sections according to their type: AMULETS, EPIGRAPHIC MONUMENTS, TERRACOTTA, BRONZE, NUMISMATICS. They are selected to illustrate the penetration of Egyptian cults into Ancient Thrace. Due to the communicative location of these cities, this penetration first took place here probably as early as the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. The earliest known monuments with Egyptian influence are the amulets found in the Greek colonies of Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol) and Mesambria (Nessebar).

Read more ...

The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) is pleased to invite you to the public lecture of Assist. Prof. Dr. Arch. Aneta Vasileva and Assist. Prof. Dr. Arch. Emilia Kaleva (University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy) New architectural heritage.

The event is organised under the initiative Every Second Tuesday and will be held on May 16, 2023 (Tuesday) at 17:00 at the IBSCT-BAS (Moskovska Street No. 45).

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

On May 9, 2023 at 18h30, the Croatian poets Sanja Lovrenčić and Maja Ručević will be presented at the Literary Club of the Sofia City Library with the participation of the poet Ivan Herceg, who is a guest of the House of Literature and Translation in May. Bulgarian poets will also participate in the event, and two of them - Petar Chuhov and Ivan Hristov - will have their own musical performances.

Sanja Lovrenčić and Maja Ručević are guests of the Conversations of Literature and the Peninsula project of the Institute of Balkan Studies and Prof. Alexander Fol Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the beginning of May 2023. Their visit and events are carried out with the assistance of the European literary network Traduki, IBSCT-BAS, DA Poetry Publishing House and the Sofia City Library.

After their presentation in the Sofia City Library on May 9, 2023 on May 10, 2023 at 16h30, the Croatian poets will be guests of the students and teachers of the Serbian and Croatian language and literature major at the Faculty of Slavic Philology of Sofia University.

Read more ...