Bulgarian-Hungarian Conference

 

 

Regions, Borders, Societies and Identities

in Central and South-East Europe

 

 

16-17 May 2012, Sofia

 

 

The scholarly forum is organized within “Central and South-East Europe in the 19th – 21st Centuries.

        Regions, Borders, Societies, identities” Bulgarian-Hungarian joint academic project (2009-2012)

 

Organizers

Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint Academic History Commission

Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Speciality of Hungarian Studies at the Faculty of Classical and New Philologies - St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University

 

Kindly supported by the

Hungarian Embassy in Sofia

Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia

 

Moderators

Dr. Penka Peykovska

Dr. Gábor Demeter

 

 

 

16 May 2012, Wednesday

 

Place: Sofia University, Rectorate, Meeting Hall 1

 

 

 

 9:30-9:45

Îpening

 

Dr. Miklós PÉK, Charge d’Affaire a.i., Embassy of Hungary

 

Prof. DSc. Ilia TODEV, Chief Director of the Institute for Historical Studies, BAS

 

Prof. Imre RESS, Chairman of the Hungarian-Bulgarian Joint History Commission  ,

 

Prof. DSc. Valery STOYANOV, Chairman of the Bulgarian- Hungarian Joint History Commission 

 

 

Chair: Valery Stoyanov

 

 9:45-10:00

DONCHEV, Tosho (Hungarian Cultural Institute - Sofia)

The Bulgarian Community in Hungary - a Brotherly Bridge between Bulgaria and Hungary

 

10:00-10:15

PARVEVA, Stefka (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Land and People in the Ottoman Balkans: Rural Societies during 17th- mid 18th Century

 

10:15-10:30

F. MOLNÁR Mónika (Institute of Literature, HAS)

Borders of the Ottoman Empire. Theoretical Questions, Solutions in Practice (1699-1856)

 

10:30-10:45        

DEMETER Gábor (Institute of History, HAS)

Migration and Assimilation: Some Social and Geographical Aspects of the Repopulation of Nógrád County after Ottoman Rule (1715-1720)

 

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

 

 

Chair: Imre Ress

 

11:00-11:15

BÚR Márta (Institute of Balkan Studies, BAS)

The Apostolic Missionary Krastyu Pejkich (1665-1730)

11:15-11:30

 

HORVÁTH Gergely Krisztián (University of Loránd Eötvös, Budapest)

State Borders, Localities and Peasant Marketing. The Dual Customs Duty and its Exceptions

 

11:30-11:45

CSAPLÁR-DEGOVICS Krisztián (University of Loránd Eötvös, Budapest)

Social Conflicts at the End of 19th Century (Kosova Vilaet)

 

11:45-12:00

KAMENOV, Peter (St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University)

The Outlet on the Aegean Sea in Austria-Hungary’s Balkan Policy in the Last Quarter of the 19th Century

 

12:00-12:15

Discussion

 

12:15-14:00

Lunchtime

 

 

Chair: Penka Peykovska

 

14:00-14:15

STOYCHEVA, Stanislava (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

The Role of Seasonal Labor Migration in the Divorce Patterns of the Bulgarian Population in Macedonia according to Data of the Bulgarian Exarchate (1892-1912)       

 

14:15-14:30         

MANASIEVA, Inna (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Literacy among the Bulgarians of the Russian Empire according to the First National Census of 1897

 

14:30-14:45

STOYCHEVA, St., MARTINOVSKI, D. (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Ethnodemographic Characteristics of a “Closed Region in the First Half of the 20th Century: The Case of Prespa Valley

 

14:45-15:00

PEYKOVSKA, Penka (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)                               

The Budapest Bulgarian Community’s Demographic Changes in the the 20th Century according to the Hungarian Censuses

 

15:00-15:15

STOYANOVA, Vanya (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

National Aspirations and State Borders in Thrace in the 20th Century (the Bulgarian Case)

 

15:15-15:30

Coffee break

 

 

Chair: Lili Lesnichkova

 

 

15:30- 15:45

SIMEONOVA, R., D. ATANASOVA, G. YONCHEVA, D. ILIEVA, Ts. VELICHKOVA (Archives of the BAS)

Felix Kanitz’s Archival Heritage, preserved at the BAS

 

 

15:45-16:00

VETOV Chavdar (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

The Road of Photography from Paris to the Bulgarian Lands. From the daguerreotype invention to the Liberation

 

 

16:00-16:15

LESNICHKOVA, Lili (St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University)

Language Aspects of the Intercultural Communication. (Hungarian-Bulgarian Parallels)

 

 

 

 

 

16:15-16:30

BEDECS László (St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University)

1968 in the Activity of the Hungarian Literary Institutions

 

16:30-16:45

Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

17 May 2012, Thursday

 

 

Chair: Mónika Molnár

 

 

 

 

 9:00-9:15

BÍRÓ László (Institute of History, HAS)

Regionalism and Centralism between the 2 World Wars

 

 

 9:15-9:30

KOLEVA, Maria (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Germany’s Trade Policy towards Hungary and Bulgaria in 1933-34

 

 

 9:30-9:45

HORNYÁK Ápád (Pécs University)

Ethnical and Social Conflicts in Délvidék/Vojvodina during World War II

 

 

 9:45-10:00

NJAGULOV, Blagovest (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Minority Identities under Question: Hidden and Imagined Minorities in South-Eastern and Central Europe

 

 

10:00-10:15

Coffee break

 

 

 

Chair: Iliyana Marcheva

 

 

10:15-10:30

GARDEV, Kostadin (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

From Declaring the War to the Laying the Basis of New Relations between Bulgaria and Hungary after 1944

 

 

10:30-10:45

MARCHEVA, Iliyana (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

The “Iron Curtain” as a Border: the Bulgarian Case

 

 

10:45-11:00

GRIGOROVA, Irina  (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Bringing the West Technology into the Bulgarian Regional Economic Planning in the Years of Communist Rule: the Case of Vratsa

 

 

11:00-11:15

FILIPOVA, Nadya (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS)

Lebanon in the Bulgarian Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s and the Early 1970s

 

 

11:15-11:45

Closing Discussion

 

11:45-12:15

Closed Session of the Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint Academic History Commission

 

 

 

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