Invitation from the Bulgarian Society for Eighteen-Century Studies for participation in the conference HAIDUKS AND REVOLUTIONARIES – FACTS AND FICTIONS FROM PAST AND PRESENT TIMES 28-29 March 2025 New Conference Hall Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” The present call is inviting all members of our society and researchers in humanities, interested in the topic, to…
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Bulgarian Society for Eighteen-Century Studies PROGRESS AND STEREOTYPES IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY 29–30 March 2024 New Conference Hall Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Progress in all its forms and appearances – social reforms, ideas- has always been approached with suspicion and ambiguous attitudes. Optimism, admiration and enthusiasm naturally clash with distrust, stereotypes and…
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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 MoreAdelina Strandgeva Europe and the mobility of its cultural boundаry Summary As the social and cultural relations between Europe and Bulgaria during the latter’s period of National Revival became more complicated, the process of circumscribing mental borders around the modern world was increasingly augmented. The article studies the emphasis on the distinguishing features of…
Read MoreThe old Garment of New Time Summary The two aspects of modernity – the doctrinal and the experimental, the metaphysical and the scientific outline various patterns. If in a doctrinaire plan the curve returns to its starting point, to omega in the experimental it has traveled far forward. Thus, the myth of modernity keeps…
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