American Research Center in Sofia - Spring 2013 Program

All lectures begin at 5:30 unless otherwise noted

Feb. 12 Prof. Liliana Simeonova (Institute for Balkan Studies / Center of Thracology, BAS), Reception of Classical Art in Ottoman Constantinople

And – inauguration of photographic exhibition by AGORA Platform Association

Feb. 13 Dr. Mario Ivanov (National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, BAS), Overview of the Excavations at the Central Metro Station in Sofia: Roman and Early Medieval Serdica

Feb. 19 Prof. Petia Georgieva (New Bulgarian University), A history and assessment of current Bulgarian political parties

Feb 20 Reports by 2012 FADS – Bulgarian Scholarships for Advanced Doctoral Students  (3:00 p.m.)

Feb. 21 Prof. Momchil Metodiev (Institute for Studies of the Recent Past), Patriarchal Elections under Communist Rule

Feb. 26 Dr. Elena Marushiakova and Dr. Vesselin Popov (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, BAS), Roma Museums and Exhibits: breakthroughs for socially meaningful museums

March 5 Prof. Daniela Koleva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”), Post-Communist memory cultures: labor camp in Belene in public and private memories

March 6 EUGENE SCHUYLER LECTURE: Prof. Dennis Hupchick (Wilkes University, USA) James F. Clarke: Pioneer of Bulgarian Historical Studies in the United States.

THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE AULA MAGNA OF BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

March 12 Dr. Maria Gurova (National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, BAS), Prehistoric flint assemblages from Bulgaria: raw material and diagnostic features in a diachronic perspective

March 13 Dr. Scott Pike (Willamette University) Gleaming white marble: archaeometric source analysis of marble from ancient Greek monuments

March 14-15 Conference: Public Art in the Balkans from the Roman Empire to Yesterday: intention, interpretation, controversy  (in collaboration with Institute of Balkan Studies/ Center of Thracology, BAS), 9:30-17:00

March 21 Ms. Maria Russeva (Institute of Art Studies, BAS), The Requiem in the 20th Century as a War Memorial

April 2 Dr. Katya Melamed (National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, BAS), Current Research on the Early Middle Ages in the Rhodope Mountains

April 3 Prof. Simeon Evstatiev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”), The Spread of Revivalism in 17th and 18th c. Islam: Middle Eastern Trajectories

April 4 Prof. Markus Wien (American University in Bulgaria), Nation Building in the 20th Century

April 9 Dr. Svetoslav Ribolov (Sofia Univeristy), The Eastern Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire (prejudices, tolerance and experience)

April 10 Prof. Olga Palagia (University of Athens), Life at court and afterlife: wall-paintings from ancient Macedonian tombs. The lecture will take place at the Lecture Hall of National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, BAS, 1 Atanas Burov Square. (11:00 a.m.)

April 11 Prof. Pierangelo Castagneto (American University in Bulgaria), Hostilities against malaria. The Rockefeller Foundation in Bulgaria 

April 23/24 ARCS Fellows Lectures I and II (7 presentations), 4:00 p.m.