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The Eleventh Conference of the Bulgarian Studies Association
Bulgaria: Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism
Library of Congress,
Washington DC, June 9-10, 2022.
The Bulgarian Studies Association announces its 11th conference centered around the theme “30 Years After the Fall of Communism.” Scholars from Bulgarian, European and US institutions will assess the current situation of Bulgaria and Bulgarian Studies from a variety of perspectives with panels on History and Politics; Literature and Libraries; Language and Culture; Nation and Society.
The Bulgarian Studies Association and the Library of Congress invite you to attend the two-day hybrid conference taking place in person at the Library of Congress and virtually via Zoom. In-person attendees will also have the opportunity to enjoy a display of Bulgarian items from the Library’s collections and a tour of the magnificent Jefferson Building located across the street from the US Capitol Building.
Location: Montpelier Room of the Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540. Closest Metro: Capitol South (Blue, Orange, Silver lines) and Union Station (Red line). The Madison Building opens to the public at 8:30 am.
The program is below. For more information about the conference, please contact:
The Program:
Thursday, 9 June 2022
9.00-9.45 am EST – Opening remarks
10.00 – 11.30 am EST – Panel 1, History and Politics
Meto Koloski, Manhattanville College, “Bulgaria’s Post-Communist Constitution. Protection of Ethnic,
Cultural, Linguistic and Religious Minorities”
Elena Fotiadou, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, “A Never Ending Tug of War. The Greek-Bulgarian
National Claims over Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace (1878-1913)”
Ben DeDominicis, Catholic Univ. of Korea, “Democracy in the European Union: The Social Identity
Dynamics of the Europeanization of Bulgaria”
Markus Wien, American Univ. in Bulgaria, “The Constitution of T?rnovo and the Bulgarian Monarchy”
11.45 am – 1.15 pm EST – Panel 2, Literature and Libraries
Angela Cannon, Library of Congress, “Todor Plochev and the Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection at the Library of Congress”
Stefka Tzanova, York College CUNY, “Bulgarian Libraries After the Fall of Communism – A Tale of
Resilience and Growth”
Daniela Asenova, Univ. of Uppsala, “Seeing with different eyes: Bulgarian Literature According to
Swedish students”
Friday, 10 June 2022
9.00 – 10.30 am EST – Panel 3, Language and Culture
Ronelle Alexander, Berkeley Univ., “Bulgarian dialects in the Balkan framework”
Angelina Ilieva, Univ. of Chicago, “A Post-Structuralist Longing for Divine Language (and what that
has to do with masculinity): Georgi Gospodinov’s Natural Novel (1999)”
Iskra Dobreva, independent scholar, “The month names from the Norovskiy Psalter”
Daria White, Liberty Univ., “The Cultural restoration of the Self after Communist Rule and Trauma”
10.45 am – 12.15 pm EST – Panel 4, Nation and Society
Diliana Ivanova and Liam Zieske, Field Museum Chicago, “Bulgarians in the Chicago Metro Area”
Daniel Kesi?, IOS Regensburg, “Infrastructure and National Space Construction in Bulgaria. The Case Study of the unfinished Railroad Project Sofia-Kjustendil-Skopje and its Importance for
Bulgaria’s “unfinished” National Integration”
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Brooklyn College CUNY, “Bulgarian Wounds and Post-communist
Traumas: The Vision of Georgi Gospodinov’s “Empath””