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
Two books with collected works of the Council for Bulgarian Studies Abroad were presented at BAS
Two collections were presented by the Council for Bulgarian Studies Abroad at GC of BAS on 11 November 2019 in “Academician Ivan Evstratiev Geshov” Hall in the building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. [...]
The Director-General of UNESCO visited the exhibition of BAS in Paris
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay visited, on 21 October, the photo exhibition of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences which is arranged in the UNESCO premises in Paris and presents the activities of the Academy to the [...]
Forty scientists are discussing the intangible cultural heritage at BAS
Bulgaria is one of the first countries in the world to fulfill the condition of the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the establishment of a National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage. That was highlighted as a [...]
An international research team receives the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant
Assoc. Prof. Anelia Kasabova from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of BAS is part of the interdisciplinary and international research team whose project "Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of [...]
Scientist of BAS was awarded an Italian Order
Corr.-mem. Prof. Alexander Kostov, DSc of the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy (Ordine della Stella d'Italia). The high state distinction is for his [...]
A 7600-year-old grave was discovered in Slatina by archaeologists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Early Neolithic grave, about 7 600 years old, was discovered by a team of archaeologists led by corr.-member Vassil Nikolov, Vice-President of BAS, in Slatina settlement. The find is extremely rare. The forthcoming studies will [...]
Fifth Graders learned about the feasting rituals of lazaruvane with folklorists from IEFSEM – BAS
Scientists from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of BAS introduced pupils from the 4th Primary School “Prof. John Atanasoff” in Sofia to the traditions on Lazar Day’s holiday called “lazaruvane”. [...]
The finds from the necropolis in Trebeništa, near Ohrid, were first gathered in a joint exhibition in Skopje
The exhibition “100 years of Trebeništa” was opened on 14 March 2019 at the National Institute of the Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia in Skopje. It was co-organized by the National Archaeological Institute with Museum [...]
Presentation of the book “Thracian Antiquity: Technological and Genetic Studies, History and Intangible Heritage“
On February 15th 2018 at 11:00 in the Great Hall of BAS, the head of the general academic project “Thracians”- Corresponding Member Vasil Nikolov will present the book “Thracian Antiquity: Technological and Genetic Research, [...]