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. All interested in the topics are cordially welcome.

List of lecturers and their research topics:

13 March / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simeon Evstatiev: Struggles against Innovation in 17th and 18th Century Islam in the Arab Middle East (with a Reference to the Balkans)

20 March / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristina Popova: "The Joy of Service". Biopolitics and Biographies between New York, Sofia and Gorna Dzhumaja in the First Half of the 20th Century

27 March / Dr. Boris Todorov: Royal Saints and the Integration of the Medieval Serbian Space (Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries)

3 April / Dr. Rosen Lutskanov: The Significant Other: Interactions of Philosophy and Abstract Mathematics in the German Academic Milieu (1870-1930)

10 April / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boyan Znepolski: Sociology as a Social Critique: A Question of Legitimacy and of Efficiency

17 April / Prof. Dr. Violeta Decheva: Redirecting National Identification by the Communist Regime in Bulgaria 1944-1950

24 April / Dr. Velislava Petrova: Why Garbage Matters?

8 May / Dr. Petya Slavova: The Soviet Type of Profession and its Local Deviations: a Comparative Study on the Lawyers' Profession in Socialist Bulgaria and the USSR

15 May / Dr. Vesselina Vachkova: The Byzantine Memories of Sofia