Sites of memory: Emotions and passions

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Institute for Literature
Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge
Institute for Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology

Joint interdisciplinary project

Emotion content of Bulgarian national identity:
Historical origins and contemporary dimensions

International interdisciplinary conference

Sites of Memory: Emotions and Passions

3-4 November 2011
Sofia

The conference will present the results of the work of the team of scholars and will debate them from different viewpoints. Alternative perspectives towards the same problems will also have the opportunity to be exposed.

Topics
Building national identity and charging it with emotional content
Manifestations of emotions that have to do with (national) identity
- Social dimensions
- Cultural dimentions
Bulgarian national identity and identities of Balkan neighbors. Comparative studies
Sites of Memory. Bulgarian and Balkan cases
Debating national identities. A rational aproaches

We expect your applications and abstracts (about 1000 sighs) before August 1, 1011.
They will be carefully analyzed and selected by the organizers. Shortly after ne conference the papers will be published.

Co-ordinators

Nikolay Aretov This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Pepka Boyadjieva This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Raya Zaimova This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Programme

3-4 November 2011
Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology
45 Moskovska str.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

9.30. Welcome
Raya Kuncheva (Director of the Institute for Literature)
Alexander Kostov (Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology)

Chair: Raya Zaïmova

10.00 - 11.00
Nikolay Aretov. Sites of memory: debates and myths
Kristina Petkova, Pepka Boyadjieva, Galin Gornev. The "emotional energy" of contemporary Bulgarian identity
Discussion

Coffee-break

11.30 – 12.30
Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa (Warsaw). Invented emotions and practical reason. Bulgarian case
Raya Zaimova, Gergana Doncheva. History education and emotions
Discussion

Chair: Pepka Boyadjieva

14.00 – 15.00
Nadya Danova. Once again on the permeability of identities
Maria Litina (Athens). Emotional responses to the Bulgarian Question: the case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Discussion

Coffee-break

15.30 – 16.30
Teodora Karamelska. Religion and national identity – one disappearing bond?
Ewelina Drzewiecka (Warsaw). Judas’ treachery figure of memory. About the role of Christian tradition in Bulgarian culture
Discussion

Wine party

Friday, 4 November 2011

Chair: Nadya Danova

9.30 – 12:00
Radoslava Ilcheva. The dramat(urg)ic passions of Bulgarian Middle ages
Rumyana Damyanova. Anger-sorrow and anger-joy in the emotional picture of Bulgarian national revival
Anna Alexieva. The emotional uses of the past: National revival as Golden Age
Discussion

Chair: Nikolay Aretov

13:00 – 16:00
Evgeniya Ivanova. Sites of Memory: Bulgaria and Serbia
Dimitar Atanasov. Trauma and bravery. Identity narration of Republic of Kosovo
Raymond Detrez (Ghent) The ill-fated library of the Catholic University of Louvain as a site of multilayered memories
Concluding discussion
16.30 End of the conference