On May 1st ARCS organized at Harvard's Center for Government and International Studies a seminar entitled "Bulgaria's Evolution Since 1989: International and Domestic Dimensions."  The seminar was co-sponsored by the American Research Center in Sofia, the Cold War Studies Program, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Kokkalis Program on Central and Southeastern Europe at Harvard University. 

The seminar was directed by Prof. Mark Kramer, Harvard University. Among the participants were:

• Stefan Tafrov, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the UN between 2001 and 2006, and 2012—currently;

• Venelin Ganev, Professor at the Department of Political Science at Miami University of Ohio;

• Nassya Kralevska, journalist and author of Communism versus Democracy: Bulgaria 1944 to 1997)

• Nikolay Valkov, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.

 The event attracted scholars, graduate students, former Fulbright Fellows and Peace Corps volunteers in Bulgaria, as well as general public. A lively discussion followed the presentation of the participants. Ms. Irina Nedeva’s  reportage on the seminar, broadcast on the Bulgarian National Radio, can be recovered here.