Twenty scholars from the most prestigious scientific institutions will present the latest research in the field of Thracology during the Fourth Readings in Thracology on “ANCIENT THRACIA AND THE THRACIANS: SAID AND OMITTED”, dedicated to Prof. Alexander Fol. The event is organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and will be held this year on 14 and 15 September 2021. The traditional date of the readings is 15 May – the date from which the Institute of Thracology has been functioning as an independent scientific unit of BAS but due to the epidemic situation in the country it was postponed to September. […]

Premiere of the book “Unity Makes Strength. Bulgarian recipients of Belgian National Orders in the 21st Century” (Tendril Publishing House) took place in the Regional History Museum – Sofia on 13 July. Its author is Prof. Dr. Alexandre Kostov from the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences who presented the exhibition. The event was organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium and was attended by representatives of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other institutions, foreign diplomats, scholars and public figures. A welcome speech was given by H.E. Ambassador Frédéric Meurice. […]

The embroidered animated film “Marmalade” directed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radostina Neikova from the Institute of Art Studies of BAS has been selected in the official programme of one of the most prestigious world festivals for animated cinema – the 31st  edition of Animafest Zagreb, World Animation Film Festival (7-12.06.2021) in Croatia. It has also been selected to participate in the oldest and largest children’s film festival – the 61st Zlin Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Czech Republic (9-15.09.2021). […]

The Dictionary of New Words in the Bulgarian Language (from the First Two Decades of the 21st Century) has been published (Sofia, Nauka i Izkustvo Publishing House, 2021). The dictionary is the work of a team of authors from the Institute of Bulgarian Language "Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin”. It is the third part of a series of lexicographical reference books published since 2001, documenting the latest additions to the Bulgarian lexicon. It presents both words that have entered from other languages at the beginning of the new century (such as emoji, vlogger, blockchain) and neologisms formed on Bulgarian soil (such as blogoroman, e-identity). Also included are semantically updated words (such as cloud), new compound names and terminological combinations (such as secure school, digital inequality, circular economy, [...]