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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.
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 has undertaken a comparative analysis of the various ideological traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity, modernity and temporality, in three “small-culture” European regions: East-Central, Southeastern, and Northern Europe. It has aimed to reconstruct the ways in which different “temporalities” and time horizons produced alternative (national) representations of the past.
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.Call for Applications - Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Scholars
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for its 2011/2012 Advanced Academia Fellowshop Programme for Bulgarians working in the area of social sciences and humanities funded by the America for Bulgaria FoundationCall for Applications - Advanced Academia Fellowships for International Scholars
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2011/2012 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for International Scholars scholars in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences.Regimes of Historicity Annual Colloquium 2010
The colloquium will take place at the mountain resort of Ribaritsa on the northern slopes of the Stara PlaninaBook Launch
On 02 July 2010 (Friday) at 13.00h CAS will host the presentation of the book “Blank Spaces in Bulgarian Cultural Memory “ by Dr. Vesselina Vachkova.Advanced Academia Fellows’ Presentations
On July 8 CAS Fellow Ivan Elenkov will present the status of his research on “Popular Culture in Bulgaria in the Era of Communism”.Advanced Academia Fellows’ Presentations
CAS fellow Hristiyan Atanasov will present his research entitled “Urban life in the Balkans: Population, Social Structure, Poverty and Wealth in Ottoman Sofia, Vidin and Ruschuk (1699-1839)CAS office will be closed between 1 August and 1 September
The office will open on 1 September.