The Institute of Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with the support of the Ministry of Culture and in institutional partnership with the State Cultural Institute to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Gallery organized an international conference on "Cultural Diplomacy and the Balkans: achievements and challenges in the present time". It took place on 23 October 2024 in the Panorama Hall of the National Gallery - Kvadrat 500. The event was realized within the framework of the project "Cultural Diplomacy in the Balkans in the 20th and 21st Centuries: achievements, challenges and the way forward ", funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria. The [...]

The solemn meeting of the University Senate: Prof. Ivan Biliarsky, Prof. Susana Reboreda Morillo (Universidad de la Rioja, Fac. de Historia), Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova, Prof. Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova. Three Bulgarian scientists were awarded with the Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal by the University of Lodz, Poland on 14 October. These are Prof. Mariyana Tsibranska, DSc (Institute of Bulgarian Language, BAS), Prof. Ivan Biliarsky, DSc (Institute of Historical Studies, BAS) and Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova, DSc (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"). The awards were presented at a ceremony at the University of Lodz where the Rector's insignia were given. The ceremony was also attended by the Bulgarian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland, Margarita Ganeva. The award is a recognition for both the scientists and the institutions where they [...]

  The exhibition "The Literary Heritage in the Library of the Bulgarian Exarchate in Istanbul" has been opened today at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The exposition presents the activities of the Central Library of BAS in the period September 2024-September 2025 under the "Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad" NSP. The exhibition was opened by the Director of the Central Library of BAS, Dr. Silviya Naydenova, who noted that thanks to an agreement between the library and the Bulgarian Exarchate in Istanbul, an inventory of the books in the Exarchate library had been made. The collection of books available to the Bulgarian Exarchate in Istanbul is remarkable and rich, said Dr. Silviya Naydenova, adding that the oldest book found by the researchers dated [...]

The exhibition “Fake (f)or Real? A History of Forgeries and Falsifications", a project of the European Parliament implemented by the House of European History in Brussels, is visiting the National Ethnographic Museum of BAS until 20 October 2024. Vice President Iliana Iotova opened the exhibition which presented examples of forgeries from the European Middle Ages to the present day. "This exhibition is not addressed to the past, it is extremely topical nowadays because we have not yet found the ways to fight fake news, disinformation, lies, how to distinguish the truth from half-truths," the Vice President said in her address and thanked the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and its director, Prof. Vladimir Penchev, [...]