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Current Programmes
Negotiating Modernity: History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe
2008-2013
The principal aim of this five-year Project is a synthetic volume on the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. It is not meant to be compartmentalized according to national sub-chapters but based on a diachronic analysis especially sensitive to transnational discursive phenomena, and being equally open to supra-national and sub-national (regional) frameworks, where different national projects were interacting. The project is funded by the European Research Council, programme “Ideas: ERC Starting Grants”.
Advanced Academia Project
2009-2012
This project partakes in the building of an educated society in Bulgaria by stimulating excellent scholarship at the highest international level. It strives to respond to the rising demand for creating a propitious space for free research by talented scholars in Bulgaria and to the increasing awareness that high-quality academic work is a prerequisite for building a knowledge-based public sphere. The project will provide a total of 24 fellowships to young and established Bulgarian scholars between 0ctober 2009 and September 2012.
Modernity and Identity
2009-2011
The "Modernity and Identity" programme for independent research grants is financed by the Bulgarian Fund for Scientific Research and is intended to support young and excellent Bulgarian scholars from the field of the social sciences and the humanities with various thematic, disciplinary and methodological interests.
Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity and Identity, 1900-1945, in East-Central, Southeastern and Northern Europe
2008-2010
The Regimes of Historicity project focuses on the comparative analysis of the various ideological traditions thematising the connection between modernity and historicity – a connection lying at the core of modern identity-narratives in the post-romantic era (1900-1945) - in three “small-state” regions: East-Central, Southeastern, and Northern Europe.
Current Fellows
For the academic 2009 - 2010 year CAS is hosting 20 research fellows from 11 countries in the framework of 3 long-term projects.
All fellows »Publications
We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe
Diana Mishkova - editorPublications » Books
News & Events
New address of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia has a new location: 7, Stefan Karadja Str. Sofia 1000 Bulgaria.Inauguration meeting of "The 30's Club"
The inauguration meeting of "The 30's Club" discussion forum will be held in the conference hall of CAS’ newly-opened office on 3 December 2009, at 17.30h.Book Presentation
On January 5th 2010, at 17.30 p.m. CAS Sofia will host the presentation of the book “Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia” by Dr. Dimiter Bechev, researcher at the Centre for European Studies, St Antony’s College (Oxford)Results from the two latest CAS Fellows selections
The results from the Calls for Applications for the Advanced Academia Independent Fellowships Programme and the Modernity and Identity Programme are now announced...Second meeting of "The 30's Club"
The second meeting of "The 30's Club" discussion forum will be held in the conference hall of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia on 9 February 2010, at 17.00h.