Център за академични изследвания има удоволствието да ви покани на семинар-дискусия на тема:
”The State of the Art in Communism Studies”
на 12 Май (понеделник) от 15:00-18:00ч.
Семинарът ще се проведе в конферентната зала на Центъра на адрес: ул. „Стефан Караджа”, №7, ет.2. Презентации ще направят проф. Марк Креймър (Харвардски университет), доц. Дaниела Колева (Софийски университет) и д-р Богдан Якоб, стипендиант на Центъра по програма “Advanced Academia”.
NB: Моля, обърнете внимание, че работният език на семинара е английски.
Programme:
* Prof. Mark Kramer: Revisiting the History of the Cold War
* Assoc. Prof. Daniela Koleva: Communism Studies Beyond the Political
* Dr. Bogdan C. Iacob: History of Communism Beyond the Nation
Chairperson: Assoc. Prof. Diana Mishkova
Mark Kramer is Director of Cold War Studies at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Originally trained as a mathematician at Stanford and Harvard Universities, he then studied International Relations at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In addition to teaching at Harvard, he has taught international relations, comparative politics, and statistics as a visiting professor at Yale and Brown Universities and Aarhus University in Denmark. He is the author of many books and academic articles on a wide range of topics. His two latest books, Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1990 (Rowman & Littlefield), and Reassessing History from Two Continents (University of Vienna Press) were published in late 2013.
Daniela Koleva is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Since 2011 Dr Koleva is Vice-Chair of the Domain Committee ISCH, COST Programme (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research). She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK; American University in Bulgaria; University of Regensburg, Germany; University of Jena, Germany; Peter Pazmani Catholic University, Hungary; University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Dr. Koleva has been granted fellowships at the Research Centre (ZRC) at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia (2010); ECASS, University in Essex, Colchester, UK (2009); GWZO, University of Leipzig, Germany (2008), etc.
Bogdan C. Iacob holds a Ph.D. in history from Central European University with a dissertation entitled Stalinism, Historians, and the Nation. History-Production in Communism Romania 1955-1966. He was research fellow at several academic institutions, most recently Imre Kertész Kolleg (Jena). He published numerous articles on the political discourse of the communist regime in Romania, history-writing in Eastern Europe, the relationship between intellectuals and politics in 20th century Romania, and on dealing with the communist past. He is co-editor with Vladimir Tismaneanu of The End and the Beginning. The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History (CEU Press, 2012) and Remembrance, History, and Justice. Dealing With the Past in Democratic Societies (CEU Press, 2014).