The International University Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialization to South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad invites you to take part in the 27th International Round Table
EXPERIMENT, POWER, SOCIETY
The Round table is organized in the frame of the project “Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures. Europe and the Black Sea Region” and will take part on
23.03. – 24.03.2018 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
A few impressions as well as interviews on Radio Blagoevgrad
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23 March (Friday)
Conference hall 114, Corpus I, South-West University
9.00 – 9.30 – Registration of the participants
9.30 – 9.45 Official opening of the ХХVII international round table
10:00– 13:00 Plenary papers
Chairpersons: Kristina Popova, Iliya Nedin
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Eudochia Saharneanu, Moldova State University
Emancipatory practices in the Social Philosophy of the 20th century (Michel Foucault)
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Gergana Popova, Kamen Lozev, South-West University
Michel Foucault: sexuality, power and resistance
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Lazar Koprinarov, South-West University
Risk and recycling or about the archaization in risk society
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Jasmina Mojsieva-Gusheva, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
Jacque Fresco’s “The Venus Project”: Reality or Utopia
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Evelina Kelbecheva, American University in Bulgaria
The experiments of the Soviet propaganda machine with Western intellectuals
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Vladimir Levchev, American University in Bulgaria
The Freemasonry – connection between knowledge and power
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11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
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Nadya Danova, Bulgarian Academy of Science
The “enlighten despotism” as theory and practice
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Petar Vodenicharov, South-West University
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova and the limits of the Russian Enlightenment
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Dragi Gjorgiev, Institute of national history – Skopje
Modernization of the Ottoman state: the spread of the telegraph network across the Macedonian cities in the second half of the XIX century
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Milena Benovska – Sabkova, Ana Luleva, Iliya Nedin, South-West University
Strategies of handling the poverty in Bulgarian village
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Nina Hristova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Russia and the Balkans – power, diplomacy and interaction (1700-1739)
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1 SESSION, CONFERENCE HALL 114
14.00 – 17.30
Chairperson: Petar Vodenicharov
Karl Kaser, University of Graz
Orthodoxy and the invention of photography (2nd half of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century)
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Tuca Nicuso, Balan Dragos, “Ovidius” University of Constanta
Religious education in the contemporary Romanian school
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Nonka Bogomilova, Bulgarian Academy of Science
“Teaching science “ or “teaching religion”: debates and dilemmas in the public schools (European context)
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Mariyana Piskova, South-West University
“Andranik” – one Armenian film of the emigrant Arsho Shahatuni from and out of the time of the mute propaganda films about the South Caucasus (the end of 1920s)
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Katerina Gadzheva, Bulgarian Academy of Science
The role of the photography in the formation process of the rational socialist consumer in the 1960s
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Desislava Georgieva, South-West University
One “confidential” document of the Metropolitan Boris to Exarch
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15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
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Kamen Lozev, South-West University
Plato as a social engineer (the critique of Sir Karl Popper)
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Georgi Gochev, New Bulgarian University
The Children of Medea (the lessons of one social and theatre experiment)
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Galina Goncharova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
The Socialist education of emotions
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Petya Slavova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
The businessmen of the 1960s as holders of hidden power: the case of Georgi Naidenov and the enterprise “Texim – Imekstrakom”
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Svetlin Odadgiev, South-West University
Social engineering in China
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Anton Venev, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Self-managing socialism in Kumanovo district – experiment or reality?
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DISCUSSION
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13.00 – 14.00 – LUNCH BREAK
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2 SESSION, HALL 412
14.00 – 17.30
Chairperson: Stilyan Stoyanov
Magdalena Kostova – Panayotova, South-West University
“Over there where East is West”
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Grigor Grigorov, South-West University
Bay Ganyo – experiments of identity
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Boyka Ilieva, South-West University
Woman in the social engineering of Paolo Mantegatsa (The reception of his ideas in Bulgaria up to the Second World War)
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Ventsislav Bozhinov, Elena Azmanska, South-West University
The literature work and its screened version – experiment, power, society (on the student polls)
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Olya Grigorova, South-West University
The grandfather Dobre from Baylovo and Serafim from the short story of Jordan Jovkov – media and literature interpretations of holiness
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Nikolay Tsenkov, South-West University
Media, propaganda and the new power
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Silviya Petrova, South-West University
The power of false news: the notion of gender in the Bulgarian media context
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15.30 – 16.00 – Coffee break
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Tatyana Stoichkova, National Academy of Arts, Sofia
‘The soft power” of communications or how the European Presidency of Bulgaria in 2018 was branded
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Vladislav Velichkov, New Bulgarian University
National stories in Scopie
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Neli Stoeva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Development of publics – center and periphery. Municipality policies and programs of art and culture. Comparative research
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Angel Tsvetkov, South-West University
”The authorized language” or the power of words
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Bilyana Todorova, South-West University
What we should not experiment with (linguopragmatic analysis of the attitudes in bg-mamma forums
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Pavel Kreichi, Masarik University, Brno
The language of the Constitution – reflexions of reality or non-realistic desires? On examples from Croatia, Bosna and Herzegovina and Montenegro
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Elena Kreychova – Nadezhda Stilyanova, Masarik University, Brno
Chained or free words and thoughts (linguistic expression of political correctness)
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DISCUSSION
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Presenting new books:
17.45 – Rumen Avramov: Economy of the “Revival process”
18.30 – COCKTAIL
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24 March (Saturday)
1 SESSION, CONFERENCE HALL 114
09.00 – 12.30
Chairpersons: Iliya Nedin
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Milen Ruzhenov Zhurnalov, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Party Building as an Experiment /Attempts to Create a Pomak Party/
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Evgenia Ivanova, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
Lawmaking as experiment
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Adrian Stoicescu, University of Bucharest / Nicolae Iorga, Institute of History
New media as a form of power – Romanian anti-government protests
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Zhorzheta Nazarska, State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia
The female craftsman practical schools – one successful social and state experiment (1890s – 1940s)
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Nurie Muratova, South-West University
Women in science – Sofia Kovalevska
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Petrana Stoykova, South-West University
The feminization of the Bulgarian education
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11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
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Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska, Institute of National History – Skopje
Cultural experiment from 19th century Macedonia (study-case of a library in village Babino)
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Vladimir Janev, Institute of National History – Skopje
The city of Salonika as a center of the European influences and novelties (1850 – 1912)
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Miroslava Georgieva, South-West University
International organizations related to the preservation of the cultural heritage
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Nelly Stoeva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”
Audience development – center and periphery. Arts and culture municipal programs.
Comparative research
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Kristiyan Kovachev, South-West University
The Middle Age and the experiments of the “people’s power”
(1944-1956 г.)
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Valeh Alakbarov, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
The experiment and the birth of the modern science
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Galina Goncharova, Vaniya Elenkova
Generational Patterns of Coping with Life Crisis: Biographical, Social and Institutional Discourses (Presentation of the Project)
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2 SESSION, HALL 412
9.00 – 12.30
Chairpersons: Petar Vodenicharov
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Ulf Schmidt, University of Kent, Canterbury
Secret science: a century of poison warfare and human experiments
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Christian Promitzer, University of Graz
Sanitizing the Balkans – an observation of a European long-term project on its path until the Second World War
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Gergana Popova, South-West University
The images of diseases in the public languages of Bulgarian socialism
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Tsvetana Manova, Aneliya Kasabova , Bulgarian Academy of Science
Knowledge, power, memory. Work and education school “Violeta Jakova”, Vranya stena
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Kristina Popova, South-West University
Sleep therapy in Eastern Europe during the 1950s
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Mila Maeva, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Image of Eastern and Western Europe according to Bulgarians in the UK
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11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
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Ketevan Gigashvili , George Gotsiridze, Arsen Bertlani and Mzia Gigashvili, Telavi State University
Social changes caused by impact of power in the Caucasus in the 19th century
(according to Grigol Orbeliani’s epistolary legacy)
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Anastasiya Pashova, South-West University
Silenced facts in the stories about the first Armenian institute in Russia (1800-1921)
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Petar Parvanov, South-West University
Constructing M.M. Kovalevski as researcher of the common law in Caucasus in the context of the imposition of the Russian influence in the region
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Nekrasov Evgeniy Efimovich, Pyatigorsk State University
Morality, law and artificial intellect: the problems of relationships
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Nino Aroshidze, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
The language standardization in Georgia – fight for and against language
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Milena Angelova, South-West University
“Power, knowledge and construction of identity – ‘Armenian’ Yezidis in Russian and Soviet Kurdology, 19th-20th century
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Marinela Mladenova, South-West University
Language “invasions” and social debates. The problem of purism (Russia between 18th and 21st century). Some parallels and differences
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3 session, Hall 433
14.00 – 17.30
Chairpersons: Milena Angelova, Nurie Muratova
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Alla Kondrasheva, Pyatigorsk State University, and
Tatiana Nevskaya, North Caucasus Federal University, Stavropol
Center and province: a model of interaction with national suburbs in the Russian Empire
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Stavris Parastatov, Pyatigorsk State University
Prospects for the development of the Balkan region in the context of resolving the “Macedonian issue”
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Marine Aroshidze, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
East and West in the course of scientific globalisation
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Ketevan Svanidze, Marine Sioridze, Shota Rustaveli State University
Woman as a stereotypical image of national and cultural identity in the context of literary comparativistics
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Irakli Gorgiladze, Shota Rustaveli State University
Strategic balance in the Black Sea: new vectors
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Marine Sioridze and Ketevan Svanidze, Shota Rustaveli State University
Socio-cultural aspects of feminism in Georgian and European literature
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Tinatin Mshvidobadze, Gori University (Georgia)
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