Category: Conferences

  Dessislava Lilova The geographic maps of the Revival Period: Usage Strategies   The text examines the formation of collective territorial identity in the Bulgarian culture during the Revival period. The process is observed through the prism of the geographic maps, which were used in the Bulgarian schools before the appearance of a sovereign state…

  Anna Alexieva The Mnemonic character in the mid-19th century Bulgarian poetry – Traveling through time   The notion of Mnemonic character in this text is designated to mark the psycho-social characteristics of a certain type of a significant for the poetry of the 40s and the 50s of the 19th century character who, feeling…

Larry Wolff (Boston) The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence Summary   The article compares some texts and cultural phenomena from Eastern Europe or East Central Europe, which would correlate cultural manifestations in the region with the distant trans-Atlantic developments emphasizing the principle and agenda of national independence At 1776 Ignacy…

    Sanya Velkova Self-identification between the East and the West: the Greek characteristics of the Balkan phenomenon at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries Summary   The text treats the issue of “situating” the Greeks’ national self-identification between the understanding of the historical past, belonging to the…

    Albena Vacheva The shrewd way is to arm ourselves with their arms: Bulgarian modern debate about native and non-native art Summary   The article is a theoretical examination of modern Bulgarian vision about West (Europe) as a legitimizing instrument in the debate native/non-native art in Bulgarian cultural context after I World War I.…

    Nikoleta Patova Rejected Europeism Summary   In the process of creation and confirmation of our national self-consciousness, the cultural and historical awareness of the people is characterized by the operation of the mechanism of identification “we – the world”. With institutionalization of the national concepts and ideals, a vacuum is created in the…

    Nikolay Aretov What is Occidentalism and does it have ground at our house? Preliminary theses in search of the literary aspects of the issue Summary   The idea of the Other is crucial part of the own identity. People imagine the Other in different ways, very often he/she is presented as a dangerous…