National emotions most often distort/ignore or shift reality officially in school books...

School textbooks are important indicator showing the stage of development of every society…

What is a homeland, and when does a homeland become a national territory? Have homelands always existed, or are they products of relatively recent historical developments

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.

On the banks of the Danube

Raya Zaïmova

The paper trackes some topoi related and arising from the works of the French poet from the “Pléїade” Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585). The autobiographical elements in one of his elegies provoked the curiosity and the comments of his contemporaries, posing questions for and against the “Danube origin” of the famous Renaissance figure rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the romantics in France.

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.