Assoc. Prof. Nadya Filipova, Ph.D., is the newly elected director of the Institute for Historical Studies. Assoc. Prof. Nadia Filipova’s research focuses on Bulgarian foreign policy, the Arab world, international relations, and minority issues. She teaches in the bachelor’s and master’s programs of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and participates in the training of young scholars, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers at the Institute of Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The primary objective of the Management and Development Program of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for the period 2026–2029 is to consolidate the leading position of this unit of BAS in the following areas: Conducting high-quality fundamental and [...]

p The winners of a student competition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the April Uprising were announced today at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences by Vasil Vasilev, chairman of the All-Bulgarian “Vasil Levski” Committee. Children from Bulgarian schools abroad participated with 24 projects on the topic “The Coverage of the April Uprising in the Press of the Country Where You Live.” The initiative was carried out as part of the Ministry of Education and Science’s program “The Untold Stories of Bulgarians.” The event was attended by Deputy Minister of Education and Science Natalia Mihalevska, the Vice-President of BAS Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov, and Corr. Memb. Atanas Semov. First place was awarded to the project by the “Young Revivalists” club from Spain in which the students [...]

The “New Art” module of the international academic conference “Art Readings 2026,” held at the Institute of Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from April 23 to 25, ended. Young and established scholars from Bulgaria and abroad presented their research in the fields of cinema, theater, music, and visual arts focusing on various aspects of this year’s theme, “Chronos and Topos.” The forum’s rich program was structured into 14 thematic panels which also included scholarly interpretations related to photography, animation, social media, dance, artificial intelligence, fashion, and architecture. In the presentations and accompanying discussions, time was examined as linear, spiral, and cyclical; mythological, cosmological, and historical, while the concept of topos was interpreted both in its meaning as a specific space (sacred [...]

A commemorative academic session marking the 150th anniversary of the April Uprisin, featuring scholars from the Institute for Historical Studies at BAS was held today at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.” Representatives of the historical community joined forces to organize an academic discussion in two sessions dedicated to this landmark anniversary. “Initiated jointly by some of the oldest institutions in modern Bulgaria, this session undoubtedly demonstrates the enduring memory and deep reverence for the immortal feat of the Bulgarians who, sharing the modern European spiritual and social values of the 19th century, selflessly declared their aspiration to build their own Bulgarian state,” said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadya Filipova, Director of the Institute for Historical Studies of BAS. “Distinguished Bulgarians, including members of the Bulgarian Learned [...]