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Thursday, 23 February 2012

The conquest of an important even holy town is well-known historical event and it generates grate number of interpretations in different texts. They bear different meanings but the textual corpus not only survives but even expands and governs the thinking of different communities - states...Readmore...

The Bulgarian National Revival represents one of the many national movements in Europe in the 19th century. According to the well-known definition by Ernest Gellner, nationalists adhere to "the political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent.Read more...

National emotions most often distort/ignore or shift reality officially in school books. Europe as both a historical block region and EU a supra national organization occasionally confused Turkey's self-assertion. The coverage of some significant historical events, namely... Readmore...

Conferences organised in the framework of the projects.

Sites of memory

The Use of Emotions: Glimpses from the Bulgarian Texts, 18th-mid-19th century

Nadia Danova

This paper does not aim at analyzing the Bulgarian literary production of the 18th and 19th centuries in its entirety. Its goal is rather to examine an essential aspect of the activity of Bulgarian intellectuals, which has remained largely overlooked in Bulgarian historiography. The study presents the results of an empirical research

Sites of memory: debates and myths

Nikolay Aretov

The emotional content of national identity is linked to the representation of key events and figures from the past and even from nowadays . Attitude towards them is manifested in different types of texts (historical, journalistic, literary, and private) that are invariably associated with certain emotions or even generate them. In the last ten years, more or less spontaneously erupted several significant public debates associated with identity and sites of memory, charged with emotions.

Hellenism and the making of Modern Greece

Antonis Liakos (Athens)

Learning to be Greeks through the appropriation of historical time, language identity and space symbolism

I awoke with this marble head in my hands
which exhausts my elbows and I do not know where to
set it down.
It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the
dream.
Our lives joined thus and it will be difficult to part
them.
George Seferis, Mythical Story

Identity is:

	Innate characteristic of each person
	Ideological structure
	formed in the family
	formed in school
	is result of free will
	All of this or specific combination of some of these elements.