Fiction in the Archives: the selection of facts and documents in scientific research 27 March 2023 г. New Conference Hall Sofia University “S. Kliment Ohridski” We invite the members of the Bulgarian society for eighteen-century studies to send proposals for this topic, which concerns the level of credibility of use of sources materials containing facts…
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PAPER REVOLUTIONS – MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED VOLUMES AS IDEOLOGIGAL TOOLS PAPER REVOLUTIONS – MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED VOLUMES AS IDEOLOGIGAL TOOLS 15 NOVEMBER 2021 New Conference Sofia University “St.Kliment Ohridski” This year the annual conference continues the topic of the previous one about the eventful nature of the book, but this time the emphasis is placed…
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Dr. Dragana Grbic from the University of Cologne will give a lecture at the The Seminar for 18th c. at Sofia University and the Bulgarian Society for Study of the 18th c. The lecture will present convergences and dividing lines between Dositej Obradovic’s manifesto of Serbian Enlightenment “Letter to Haralampie” and the cornerstone articles on…
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Anna Ohanjanyan (Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts “Matenadaran”, Yerevan, Armenia, Pontica Magna program fellow at the NEC) will present a public lecture: Debating Confessions: Armenian Polemical Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century The early eighteenth century marked for the Armenians the apogee of the confessional age. In the two-fold geopolitical settings under the rule of…
Read MoreNikolay Aretov Quest of the Legend: Paths to Aglikina Polyana National mythology purposefully forges narration about heroes. Those who fight for national independence have important place among them. This narration highlights and sacralizes some places, connected with important events, with battlefields, graves, etc. One such important place is Aglikina Polyana, situated in the…
Read MoreDessislava 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…
Read MoreAnna 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…
Read MoreLarry 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…
Read MoreSanya 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…
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