Prof. Revalski, Full Member of BAS, guest at the event On the eve of the Independence Day of Bulgaria, a symposium dedicated to the distinguished Bulgarian scientist, politician and public figure Professor Ivan Shishmanov (1862-1928) was held at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. The occasion was the publication of Professor Ivan Shishmanov's lectures "Slavic World", read 100 years ago in the auditoriums of the famous German university and preserved today in the Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The compilers of the impressive edition are Prof. Elisabeth Schore, long-time Dean of the Faculty of Philology and head of the Slavic Seminar at the University of Freiburg, and Prof. Rumyana Koneva from Bulgaria, a scientist of BAS and director of the Bulgarian [...]

Kaloyan Konstantinov, a PhD student at the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre for Thracology at BAS (IBSCT-BAS), has been awarded the prestigious Emerging Leader Award of King's College London. Since 2017, the award has been given in 12 categories to distinguished alumni who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and civic leadership. Kaloyan graduated with a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies in 2018 in London. In 2021, he enrolled in a PhD programme at IBSCT-BAS on Iran-Balkan relations between 1990-2021. He received the award for his work as an independent journalist covering the hot spots and world-changing events - including the war in Ukraine from the front, protests in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Tunisia and more. The jury also noted his work as an international [...]

On 25-27 April 2023, an International Scientific Conference "Constantine of Preslav’s Uchitel’noe Evangelie and the South Slavonic Homiletic Texts (IX-XIII century): Philological and Interdisciplinary Aspects" was held in Sofia. The scientific forum was organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences within the project "The Vocabulary of Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe evangelie ('Didactic Gospel'): Old Bulgarian-Greek and Greek-Old Bulgarian Word Indices", funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund (contract No. KP-06-H50/2). Partner in the event was the Regional History Museum - Sofia. Thirty-five distinguished scientists from Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, as well as some young researchers from Bulgaria, Austria and Croatia, participated with papers. Plenary lectures were given by [...]

  The Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center at BAS, part of the consortium of the Center of Excellence "Heritage BG", and the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad are organizing an international  competition "Traces of Cyril and Methodius' work around the world".  This joint initiative is part of the celebrations in 2023 on the occasion of the 1160th anniversary of the Slavonic script and aims to promote the work of Cyril and Methodius among Bulgarian migrant communities on all continents, to enrich the knowledge of students from Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad, to develop their talents and encourage their research interests. There are 3 categories - a research project, an essay or short story on the topic "In their footsteps" and a drawing on the topic "Bulgarian alphabets". The [...]