Institute of History

Institute of History

at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint History Commission

Hungarian-Bulgarian Joint History Commission

in cooperation with

  Speciality of Hungarian Studies

                  Hungarian Cultural Institute

      at the Faculty of Classical and New Philologies

                    Sofia

  Sofia University of St Kliment Ohridski

 

Bulgarian-Hungarian Scholarly Forum

16-18 May 2007  

Conference

Nations and Minorities in Central and South-East Europe. Identity Issues

Round table

Problems of the Hungarian and Bulgarian Historiography
in the Context of the European Integration

Seminar

Genealogy and Phaleristics in the World without Borders

Youth Forum

Tradition and Innovation within Hungarian Studies in Bulgaria

16 May 2007, Wednesday

 

Seminar

Genealogy and Phaleristics in the World without Borders

Place: Institute of History, Small Meeting Hall

17:30 – 18:15            PANDULA Attila (Budapest University)
Knights of Balkan Origin in the Military Order of Maria Theresa

18:15 – 18:45            ZAPRJANOVA, Antoaneta (Institute of History, BAS)
Genealogy and Phaleristics within Our Common European Home

18:45 – 19:30            Discussion

 

17 May 2007, Thursday  

 

Conference

Nations and Minorities in Central and South-East Europe. Identity Issues

Place: Sofia University, Rectorat, Meeting Hall 1

9:30 – 9:45                Оpening

First Part: Identity Issues

Chair: Valery Stoyanov

9:45 – 10:00              SZARKA László (Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities, HAS) Ethnic Space and Identity Changes in the 20th-Century Towns of the Carpathian Basin

10:00 – 10:15            NJAGULOV, Blagovest (Institute of History, BAS)
Dynamics of the Identity among the Bulgarian Communities Abroad 

10:15 – 10:30            ZAPRJANOVA, Antoaneta (Institute of History, BAS)
Family Memory – Constant of Identity

10:30 – 10:45            HRISTOVA, Marina (Institute of History, BAS)
Identity in the Bulgarian Genealogical Diaspora

 

10:45 – 11:00            LESNICHKOVA, Liljana (Sofia University)
Language and Identity

11:00 – 11:15            Coffee break

Chair: Attila Pók

11:15 – 11:30            MARKOVA, Indra (Sofia University)
About Some Hungarian Names of Religious Communities and Nations and Their Bulgarian Equivalences  

11:30 – 11:45            RESS Imre (Institute of History, HAS)
Identity Changes of Croatians in Western Hungary in the 19th-20th C.

11:45 – 12:00            SERES Attila (Institute of History, HAS)
Identity Changes of the Hungarians in Moldavia in the 18th –20th C.

12:00 – 12:15            VEKOV, Mancho (Institute of History, BAS)
The Bulgarian Cuisine as an Agent for the Consolidation
of the Bulgarian Settlers in Russia, 18th-20th C.

12:15 – 13:00            Discussion

13:00 – 14:00            Lunchtime

Second Part: Migrations and Ethnic Changes in the Balkan-Carpathian Region

Chair: Attila Seres

14:00 – 14:15            MOLNÁR Monika (Budapest University)
Migrations in the Borderlands of the Ottoman and the Habsburg Empires at the End of the 17th C.  and the Beginning of the 18th C.

14:15 – 14:30            BÚR Márta (Institute of Balkan Studies, BAS)
Balkan Immigrants in Hungary in the 18th – 19th C. According to Their Religious, Ethnic and National Manifestations

14:30 – 14:45            PEYKOVSKA, Penka (Institute of History, BAS)
Hungarian Emigration to Bulgaria at the Turn of the 19th C. as Reflected in the Bulgarian Population Censuses

14:45 – 15:00            HORNJÁK Árpád (Pécs University)
Migrations in Délvidék (Vojvodina) in the First Half of the 20th C.

15:00 – 15:15            STOJANOVA, Vanya (Institute of History, BAS)
Wars and Ethnodemographic Processes in Thrace in the First Half
of the 20th C.

15:15 – 15:30            Coffee break

15:30 – 15.45           DEMETER Gábor (Debrecen University)
Migration and Assimilation in North-Eastern Hungary and Partium in the 18th–20th C.

15:45 – 16:00            JOBBÁGY István (Selye János University)
Ethnic Changes in Slovakia between 1921 and 1991

 

16:00 – 16:30            Discussion

 

Closed Session
of the Bulgarian-Hungarian / Hungarian-Bulgarian
Joint History Commission

16:30 – 17:30            Further Steps towards Our Bilateral Cooperation in Scholarly Research Work

 

18 May 2007, Friday

 

Conference

Nations and Minorities in Central and South-East Europe. Identity Issues

Place: Sofia University, Rectorat, Meeting Hall 2

Third Part: Nations and Ethnicities Living Together

Chair: Penka Peykovska

9:00 – 9:15                SHTERIONOV, Shtelian (Center for Population Studies, BAS)
Bulgarian Historiography on the Demographic Development of Greeks
in the Bulgarian Lands during the National Revival

9:15 – 9:30                MUCHINOV, Ventsislav (Center for Population Studies, BAS)
Bulgarian Revival Press about the “Other” Ethno-Religious Communities in Upper Thrace in the 1850s-1870s

9:30 – 9:45                KAMENOV, Petar (National History Museum)
Ethnic Integration in Eastern Roumelia in 1878-1879 in the View of Benjamin Kállay

9:45 – 10:00              IFJ. BERTÉNYI Iván (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Hungarian Public Opinion on Romanian Expansion in Transylvania before World War I

10:00 – 10:15            GARDEV, Kostadin (Institute of History, BAS)
Cultural Life and Education of the Bulgarians in Austria until 1944

10:15 – 10:30            MALINOVA, Mariana (Institute of History, BAS)
The Chinese Community in Bulgaria

10:30 – 10:45            Coffee break

10:45 – 11:00            SZONDY György (Sofia University)
One Hungarian Publisher Bulgarian Studies-Orientated Results and Further Projects

11:00 – 11:30            Closing Discussion

Youth Forum for Interdisciplinary Researches

Workshop

Tradition and Innovation within Hungarian Studies in Bulgaria

Place: Sofia University, Rectorat, Meeting Hall 2

Chair: György Szondy

11:30 – 11:40            SOKOLOVA, Hristina (Sofia University)
Hungarian Philology: History and Future Goals in Brief

11:40 – 11:50            GEORGIEVA Ekaterina (Sofia University)
Hungary through the Eyes of the Freshers

11:50 – 12:00            STOJANOVA, Desislava (Sofia University)
Professional Realization of the Graduates in Hungarian Studies

12:00 – 12:30            Discussion

12:30 – 13:30            Lunch

13:30 – 16:00            Sightseeing Sofia Center

Round table

Problems of the Hungarian and Bulgarian Historiography
in the Context of the European Integration

Place: Hungarian Cultural Institute

16:00 – 16:50            PÓK Attila (Institute of History, HAS) Opening Plenary Report
Political System Change and Historiography in Hungary

16:50 – 17:10            MARCHEVA, Iliana (Institute of History, BAS)
Bulgarian Historiography in the Period of Transition at the End of the 20th
and the Beginning of the 21st C.

17:10 – 17:30            GROZDANOVA, Elena (Institute of History, BAS)
Ottoman Studies in Bulgaria during the Past Decade (1997-2007) - Continuity and Innovation

17:30 – 17:40            POPPETROV, Nikolaj ((Institute of History, BAS)
Remarks

17:40 – 18:30            Discussion

18:30                        Participants are invited to a glass of wine at the Hungarian Institute of Culture

 

19 May 2007, Saturday

Excursion to the Rila Monastery (only for the Hungarian participants)