Research division
Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity
Institutes and Academic Specialized Units
Mario Ivanov
Scientific secretary of division 8. Cultural-historical heritage and national identity
mivanov@cu.bas.bg
National Archaeological Institute with Museum
The research in this division is aimed at studying, preserving and popularizing the Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage as part of the common European cultural tradition and history.
The main spheres of research in the humanities are: Bulgarian studies, Balkan history, Thracology, Cyrillo-Methodian Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Historiography, Medievalism, Musicology, Dramatic Art, Fine Arts, Screen Arts, Architecture, Ethnology, Folklore, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology , Museology and others.
Information technologies, electronic publishing and digitization of bulk information of the cultural, historical and scientific heritage are implemented, and digital repositories are created to systematize the samples of this heritage and to make effective access to them.
Planned, rescue and emergency archaeological researches and field studies are carried out, and active participation is taken in the preparation to realize national infrastructure projects – highways, gas pipelines, oil pipelines, coal and mineral mining as well as in projects related to the organization of cultural tourism.
Analyses of phenomena related to ancient, medieval, traditional, new, contemporary and modern culture in the context of its specific role in building national, Balkan and European identities in a globalizing world are made.
News
The National Archaeological Institute at the age of 100
Honorary plaque of BAS - gold for the National Archaeological Institute with Museum A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Archaeological Institute of BAS was held in the Central Hall of the National [...]
Premiere of the book “Unity Makes Strength. Bulgarian recipients of Belgian national orders in the 21st century”
Premiere of the book “Unity Makes Strength. Bulgarian recipients of Belgian National Orders in the 21st Century” (Tendril Publishing House) took place in the Regional History Museum – Sofia on 13 July. Its author is [...]
Four new books on Bulgarian-Ukrainian cultural relations
Four books on Bulgarian-Ukrainian cultural relations were presented at BAS by the Institute of Literature and the Embassy of Ukraine in Bulgaria. The comparative collection “Bulgaria and Ukraine – Culture at the Turning Points (XIX-XIX)”, [...]
The embroidered animated film “Marmalade” has been selected for two international festivals
The embroidered animated film “Marmalade” directed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radostina Neikova from the Institute of Art Studies of BAS has been selected in the official programme of one of the most prestigious world festivals [...]
Dictionary of new words in the Bulgarian language (from the first two decades of the XXI century)
The Dictionary of New Words in the Bulgarian Language (from the First Two Decades of the 21st Century) has been published (Sofia, Nauka i Izkustvo Publishing House, 2021). The dictionary is the work of a [...]
Stream through time: 8000 years of history presented at the National Archaeological Museum
On 26 May 2021, Wednesday, the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) opened the exhibition “Stream Through Time: Rescue Archaeological Excavations along the Extension of the Gas [...]
Icarus Award for Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rumyana Nikolova from the Institute of Art Studies
The book by Assoc. Rumyana Nikolova "Functioning Mode of the Bulgarian theatre in the period 1944-1989", "P. Venedikov" Publishing House 2020, was awarded the ICARUS for 2021 for a critical text by the Theatre Historians, [...]
The National Ethnographic Museum presents a new exhibition “From the edges of embroidery”
The exhibition can be visited until the end of July 2021 The National Ethnographic Museum presents its new exhibition "From the edges of embroidery", located in three halls on the first floor of the Prince's [...]
200 years since the birth of Georgi Stoykov Rakovski
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great revolutionary Georgi Stoykov Rakovski with a poster exhibition which is arranged in the central foyer of BAS. The exposition [...]
Ancient genomes shed new light on the earliest Europeans and their relationships with Neandertals
An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. By comparing their genomes to the [...]
International Scientific Conference “The Balkans in International Relations: From Late Antiquity to the Age of Globalization”
International online scientific conference “X Drinov Readings” on “The Balkans in International Relations: From Late Antiquity to the Age of Globalization” will be held on 30 and 31 March 2021. The organizer of this forum [...]
The first “Fish Primer” is shown by the Central Library of BAS
21 March marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr. Petar Beron Three of the Revival editions of the "Fish Primer" by Dr. Petar Beron are stored in the Central Library of BAS (CL-BAS). [...]
125 years since the birth of the composer Academician Petko Staynov
A hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Acad. Petko Staynov will be celebrated in 2021. An initiative committee chaired by Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, has adopted a programme to celebrate [...]
The Bulgarian tradition of decorating with martenitsa
The traditions associated with 1 March mark the transition between winter and spring and date back to the pre-Christian era. The most famous and widespread of them is the decoration with martenitsas of twisted white [...]
2020 – successful and important for Bulgarian archaeology
The National Archaeological Institute with a Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) opened the fourteenth national archaeological exhibition “Bulgarian Archaeology 2020” on 11 February 2021. The opening was attended by the [...]
The exhibition “Bulgarian Archaeology 2020” presents over 350 exhibits from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
The National Archaeological Institute with a Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) is going to present the fourteenth national archaeological exhibition "Bulgarian Archaeology 2020" from 12 February to 2 May 2021. [...]
“Awake Bulgaria” collected messages from all continents
Representatives of IEFSEM – BAS participated, on 17 December, in the last meeting for the year of the Council for Work with Bulgarians Abroad to the Vice President of the Republic of Bulgaria, at which [...]
International Scientific Conference “Between the Worlds: Magic, Miracles and Mysticism”
The International Scientific Conference “Between the Worlds: Magic, Miracles, and Mysticism” (BEW 2020) will be held on 29-31 October 2020 in Sofia with working language English. It is part of the series “Between the Worlds” [...]
The richness of the Balkan church murals from the post-Byzantine period, collected in a bilingual monograph
In its new edition “Roads of Balkan Icon-Painters” the Institute of Art Studies of BAS will show the richness of the Balkan church murals from the post-Byzantine period. The presentation will take place from 17.00 [...]
The Institute of Balkan Studies-BAS presents the exhibition “The City of the Balkans: Spaces, Images, Memory in Postcards” in Kavarna
The exhibition “The City of the Balkans: Spaces, Images, Memory in Postcards” of the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology of BAS was opened on 1 September 2020 in Kavarna. The event was [...]
Rare archeological finds of 8 000 years in the Neolithic settlement of Slatina
A team of archaeologists led by Corresponding Member Vassil Nikolov, Vice-President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences discovered four Early Neolithic graves almost 8 000 years old in the village of Slatina in Sofia. Together with [...]
International Scientific Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria”
On 25 and 26 June 2020, the fourth edition of the International Scientific Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria” took place (CLIB 2020: https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/). The forum was held in a mixed format – in person (in [...]
Digitalization and innovation in the field of cultural heritage
The main activities of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences related to the digitalization of cultural heritage were presented by the Vice-President of BAS, Corresponding Member Vassil Nikolov, at an international video conference on the problems [...]
Gained Independence – Polish and Bulgarian Perspectives in Volume XXXV of the Bulletin of the Institute for Historical Studies
All-focus Volume XXXV of the Bulletin of the Institute for Historical Studies has been published. The collection contains materials from the Polish-Bulgarian scientific conference held in November 2018 at BAS on the topic: [...]