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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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…
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