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Current Programmes
Advanced Academia Project
2009-2014
Through this independent fellowship programme CAS will ensure possibilities for conducting independent research in an international, interdisciplinary environment, without restrictions in the selected areas of study - an approach intended to stimulate excellent scholarship at the highest international level.
Negotiating Modernity: History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe
2008-2013
The Negotiating Modernity Project will map the history of East-Central European political thought from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Paying attention to both the intra- and extra-regional interferences, and breaking the duality of Western “core” and Eastern “periphery”, it is meant to contribute to the emergence of a truly European perspective of intellectual history. The researchers will answer questions about the key components of European political thought, formulated on the basis of a regional and trans-regional comparative analysis.
European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History
2012-2013
A key feature of the project is to go beyond both the usual discussions on the heuristics of historical regions, but also expand the toolkit of conceptual history and not just follow a conceptual itinerary per se, but also contextualize this itinerary in terms of the changing political, cultural and especially disciplinary contexts. On the whole, this would help us “temporalize” our spatial terminology, and in turn, analyze the ways historical change is encapsulated by spatial categories.
Current Fellows
For the academic 2011 - 2012 year CAS is hosting 27 research fellows from 10 countries in the framework of 3 long-term projects.
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Fellow Seminar
Dr.Vesselina Vatchkova will make a presentation on the topic "The Byzantine Memories of Sofia" on 12 January 2012 (Tuesday) at 16.30h at CAS Conference RoomCAS ADVANCED ACADEMIA FELLOWS 2012/2013
FELLOW SELECTION RESULTS (BULGARIAN AND FOREIGN)Fellow Seminar
Dr. Kristina Popova will make a presentation on the topic “The Joy of Service. Biopolitics and Biographies between New York, Sofia and Gorna Dzhumaja in the First Half of the 20th Century” on 19 January 2012 (Tuesday) at 16.30h at CAS Conference RoomCAS Discussion Series: “Existential Socialism”
The fourth seminar of the CAS Discussion Series “Existential Socialism”, titled “Death Under Socialism”, will take place on 24 February 2012 (Friday) at 14:00-17:30h at CAS Conference Room.Advanced Academia Public Lectures
CAS Public Lecture Series will be held every Tuesday (between 13 March and 15 May 2012, except for 1 May) at 18:00h at the American Corner of Sofia City Library on 4A, Slaveykov Square.Workshop: "Conceptual History of European Regions and Boundaries"
Opening session of the collective research project at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.