{"id":1301,"date":"2024-03-15T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2025-03-15T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:59:08","slug":"progress-and-stereotypes-in-the-18th-and-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/?p=1301&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"PROGRESS AND STEREOTYPES IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bulgarian Society for Eighteen-Century Studies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PROGRESS AND STEREOTYPES IN THE 18<sup>TH<\/sup> AND 19<sup>TH<\/sup> CENTURY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>2<\/em><em>9<\/em><em>&#8211;<\/em><em>30<\/em> <em>March<\/em><em> 202<\/em><em>4<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>New Conference Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Progress in all its forms and appearances \u2013 social reforms, ideas- has always been approached with suspicion and ambiguous attitudes. Optimism, admiration and enthusiasm naturally clash with distrust, stereotypes and even fear.<\/p>\n<p>Confrontation with the foreign style of life and thinking can mobilize conservative standpoints and can evoke complex parallels, contradictions and counteracts in the cultural history of 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> c. in Europe and the Balkans. Similar phenomena can be traces in particular in the Bulgarian culture in its ambivalent attitude to European ideas and Modernity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the present call for participation we offer the following thematic areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimism and suspicion: dubious attitude to novelty;<\/li>\n<li>European ideas and local usage<\/li>\n<li>Advancement and conservatism<\/li>\n<li>Gender and stereotypes<\/li>\n<li>Inventions and technical appliances<\/li>\n<li>Material objects and their daily usefulness<\/li>\n<li>Consumption and capital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We expect your resumes until<strong> 20 March 2024 <\/strong>at the following email:<strong> bulgc18@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian Society for Eighteen-Century Studies PROGRESS AND STEREOTYPES IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY 29&#8211;30 March 2024 New Conference Hall Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d Progress in all its forms and appearances \u2013 social reforms, ideas- has always been approached with suspicion and ambiguous attitudes. Optimism, admiration and enthusiasm naturally clash with distrust, stereotypes and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulgc18.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}