American Research Center in Sofia
Fall 2015 Schedule
Sept. 15:
Paulina Andonova (independent scholar and Gipson Fellow 2015)
Voynuk or Askeri? The Transformation of The Voynuks’ Landholdings into Askeri Chiftliks in the Context of the Ottoman Socio-Economic History
Sept. 16
Margarit Damyanov (National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, BAS and Gipson
Fellow 2015)
A Sanctuary of Demeter (?) in Apollonia Pontica: The Site and The Pottery
Sept. 17-20
CONFERENCE: Sandanski and Its Territory during Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages:
Current Trends in Archaeological Research. Organized by the American Research Center in Sofia and Archaeological Museum in Sandanski
Oct. 6
Mina Megalla (independent scholar)
Introduction to the Teachings of the Desert Fathers in the Balkans
Oct. 7
Daniela Koleva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)
St. St. Cyril and Methodius: From Christian Sanctity to (Trans) National Memory
Oct. 13
Rossitsa Gradeva (American University in Bulgaria),
Late Antique Buildings in Ottoman Sofia
Oct. 16
Milena Benovska (New Bulgarian University)
The Modernization in Southeastern Europe (19th-21st c.)
Oct. 19
Evelina Kelbecheva (American University in Bulgaria)
TOPOI of Memory in Bulgaria
Nov. 3
Ivan Hristov (Institute for Literature – BAS and ARCS SE European Fellow)
The Concept of Time and Identity in the Bulgarian Literary Modernism
Nov. 5
Valentina Nedelcheva (Sofia University and ARCS SE European Fellow)
Migration and Identity Dynamics – The “New-Old” Bulgarians
Nov. 10
Christopher Mielke (Central European University and ARCS Pre-doctoral Fellow)
Bulgarian princess and Bosnian Queen Dorothy: her time as a hostage at the Hungarian court
Nov. 11
Zlatina Bogdanova (Inst. Ethnology and Folklore Studies – BAS and ARCS SE European
Fellow)
Cultural Heritage Management in Local Strategies of Cultural and Religious Tourism
Nov. 12
Oana Stefan (University of Pittsburgh)
Tourism and Dictatorship: Building Leisure Spaces on the Romanian Black Sea Coast and the Spanish Costa del Sol, 1960s-1970s
Nov. 19 Public reports on Site preservation and museum projects funded by ARCS in 2014-2015
*** Public lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted ***
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