Regional Research

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Category: Regional Research

Aims

- Implementation of modern project-based programs that will boost  the development of high-quality regional research and allow Sofia University to join the group of the best European educational establishments

- Application of innovative models and approaches in social sciences helping reconsider the past, explain the present and analyze and forecast the future

 

- Development of multidisciplinary research projects carried out by well-known Bulgarian and foreign experts

- Application of regional research for the needs of public, commercial and non-governmental sector

- Organization of academic forums and scientific events

- Publication of research results in both Bulgarian and English in cooperation with famous European publishers that would help the promotion of the Bulgarian humanitarian studies around the world.

Team

Associate professor Ivan Purvev, PhD, Head of Program, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

Assistant professor Maria Baramova, PhD, Program Coordinator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Grigor Boykov, PhD, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Senior assistant professor, Ivaylo Lozanov, PhD, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor, Krassimir Rabadjiev, PhD, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Associate professor, Vassilka Tankova, PhD, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hristo Hristozov, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Maria Kiprovska, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anelia Stoyanova, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research projects under implementation in 2016

  1. Seminar in National and Regional History, 15th – 19th century: Project leader: Associate professor: Ivan Parvev
  2. Center for Regional Research and Analysis: designed as a think-tank body the Center will conduct research and analysis to assist planning and implementation policies of different decision-making institutions
  3. Post-graduate seminar, entitled: The Balkan City; Project leader, Professor Biliana Boteva
  4. Social dimensions of Southeast European periphery in XVI-XIX c.: Project leader, Dr. Maria Baramova
  5. Environment and Traditions: Cultural adaptation, economic models and identities; Project leader: Asociate professor Vesselin Tepavicharov
  6. Economic relations of the Ghets’ capital city of Helis: Project leader, Professor Totko Stoianov 

Completed projects

Urban Development of Plovdiv during the period of the Ottoman Domination, XV-XIX c.”

Interdisciplinary research project, entitled “Social Dimensions of the periphery of Southeast Europe, 16th -19th c

Scientific Events in 2016

Research trip “Environment and Traditions”, July-August 2016

Discussion on “The Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire: Terms, Structures and Personalities”

Discussion on “Russian Policy in the Black Sea Region and in the Middle East”, June 2016

Early Career Seminar “International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies “Enlightenment and Peasant Life: Representations, Intellectual Debates, Cultural Conflicts, Socio-economic Transitions”, jointly conducted with Vienna University and the International Society for Research of XVIIIc., 26-30 June 2016

Annual meeting, Hisar, 09-11.12. 2016

Visiting lecturers, invited for the National and Regional History Seminar:

- Prof Dubravka Stoyanovic, University of Belgrade, 19 April 2016

- Prof Milan Ristovic, University of Belgrade, May 2016

- Prof. Hrvoe Petric, University of Zagreb, June 2016

- Prof Konrad Kleving, The Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung – IOS, Regensburg, October, 2016

- Prof. Wolfgang Hoepken, Leipzig University, November 2016

Visiting lecturers, invited for the Seminar “The Balkan City”:

 - Prof Andreas Kultzer, Austrian Academy of Science

Lecturers visiting the Center for Regional Research and Analysis:

- Prof Turan Ilter, Istanbul University, New Conference Hall, 23 May 2016

Traveling seminar The Balkan City, jointly organized with the Athens University: 10-15.05. 2016, Athens

Seminar on “Graves, Tombs, Necropolis in their Settlement Environment in the Eastern Mediterranean – Classical to Hellenistic Period”, Sofia-Kazanluk-Isperih, 9–13 October 2016

Key Publications

Maria Baramova, Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev, Vania Racheva (eds.), Power and Influence in South-Eastern Europe, 16th ­ 19th c., LiT Verlag: Berlin /Munster/ Zurich, 2013

Maria Baramova, Grigor Boykov, Ivan Parvev (eds.), Social Networking in South-Eastern Europe, 16th ­ 19th c, collection of articles produced during workshops’ discussions, 2014

History of Southeast Europe, 16th – 21st c. (vol.1 and vol.2)

Essays in Regional History

Grigor Boykov, Ivaylo Lozanov, Daniela Stoyanova (eds.), Sequel in Regional Research, entitled Cities in South Eastern Thrace: Continuity and Transformation

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