To engage the broader public with our research findings on urban–rural migration, our team member Dr. Petya Dimitrova presented the photo exhibition “Moving to the Countryside” at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv in early October. The eight posters turn towards internal and international migration from cities to Bulgarian villages. It …
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Members of the Balkan Ethnology Department took part in the sixth edition of the Cultural Seminar “The Unknown” (НЕПОЗНАТИТЕ), held in Plovdiv from 2 to 4 October 2026. This year’s edition marked ten years since the seminar was launched in 2016. It combined academic research, cultural heritage, the arts and many forms of public engagement. …
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 …
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The Balkan Ethnology Department was represented at the international workshop “Decentering Empires: Local Communities and Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Black Sea Region (17th–Early 20th Centuries)”, held on 27–28 August 2026 at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The workshop gathered more than thirty researchers working on the premodern and modern …
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Members of the Balkan Ethnology Department took part in the international conference “Social and Cultural Contacts: Borders, Belonging and Mobility”, held at Gümüşhane University, Türkiye, from 20 to 23 July 2026. The conference was organised jointly by Gümüşhane University and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of …
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From 29 June to 2 July 2026, IEFSEM–BAS hosted “Migration and Multicultural Societies”, an intensive course for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers led by Prof. Paolo Ruspini of Roma Tre University, Italy. The programme combined theory with case studies and ethnographic fieldwork. It covered historical and contemporary migration flows, transnationalism, socio-cultural processes and key challenges …
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An intensive postgraduate course titled “Migration and Multicultural Societies” will take place from 29 June to 2 July 2026 at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. The programme will be led by Dr. Paolo Ruspini, Associate Professor at Roma Tre University (Italy), and …
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International conference ʽBetween the Worlds: Migrants, Margins, and Social Environmentʼ (BEW 2021) Sofia, 1-2 December 2021. The teams of the ‘Between the Worlds’ Conference and the research project ʽCultural Integration and Adaptation of Immigrants in Bulgariaʼ (funded by the Bulgarian Science Fund (DN 20/8 (11.12.2017) are pleased to announce their joint international conference ʽBetween …
E-collection of papers from the International conference ‘Between the Worlds: People, Spaces and Rituals’ is prepared by Balkan Ethnology team, is already published and available here. Please let it be cited: Between the Worlds: People, Spaces and Rituals Between the Worlds: People, Spaces and Rituals. (2019). Slavkova, Magdalena, Maeva, Mila, Erolova, Yelis and Popov, Rachko (Eds.) …
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International Conference: “Between the Worlds: Magic, Miracles and Mysticism” (BEW 2020), Sofia, 29-31 October 2020 Balkan Ethnology Department at Тhe Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM) at the Bulgarian Academy of Science is pleased to announce its forthcoming international conference “Between the Worlds: Magic, Miracles and Mysticism” to be held October 29-31st 2020 in Sofia, …
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