On September 25th 2026, the Balkan Ethnology Department hosted a seminar within the framework of IMPEA, entitled “Public Attitudes and Behaviour towards Communist Heritage in Bulgaria and Europe.” The event was held in a hybrid format at IEFSEM–BAS and online via Zoom.
The guest speaker was Assoc. Prof. Katya Yankova, lecturer in Tourism at the Higher Colleges of Technology – Abu Dhabi. The seminar focused on contemporary attitudes and behaviour towards communist heritage in Bulgaria and other European countries, addressing the ways in which this contested past is perceived, interpreted, and approached in the present.
The seminar provided an opportunity for discussion on the place of communist heritage in contemporary societies and on the different ways in which societies relate to, negotiate, and reinterpret the material and cultural legacies of the socialist past.
