American Research Center in Sofia Spring 2014 Program
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American Research Center in Sofia Spring 2014 Program Feb. 11 Emil Nankov (American Research Center in Sofia) Take That! Inscribed Lead Sling Bullets from Ancient Thrace: Problems of Interpretation Feb. 13 Daniela Koleva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) Whose Memory, Whose City? Changing Urban Memoryscapes and Their Changing Uses Feb. 18 Milena Benovska (New Bulgarian University), Consensus in a local community: the case of Zlatograd Feb. 19 Reports by 2012 FADS – Bulgarian Scholarships for Advanced Doctoral Students (2:00-5:00 p.m.) March 6 Liliana Simeonova (Institute of Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology, BAS) Construction of the Cultural Other: Origins of the Christian Bulgarians' Interest in Islamo-Arab culture, the 1880s through the 1950s March 7 Cris Scarboro (King’s College), Middle Class Socialism and the Revenge of the More March 19 EUGENE SCHUYLER LECTURE – Prof. Carolyn Snively (Gettysberg College, USA), Golemo Gradište at Konjuh, R. Macedonia: Archaeological Excavation at an Anonymous Late Antique City (4:00 p.m. at the National Archaeology Museum - NIAM) March 27 Markus Wien (American University in Bulgaria), Topic TBA April 11-12 ARCS Conference: Bridging the Danube: Roman occupation and interaction along the Middle Danube Valley, 1st-5th c. AD (in Timișoara, Romania: co-sponsored by West University of Timișoara) April 15 Petar Todorov (Institute for National History – Skopje), Governing the late Ottoman City: a Comparative Study of Elites in Skopje and Sofia (end of the 18th century – 1869) April 22 ARCS Fellows Lectures I (5 presentations), 1:00-5:00 p.m. April 23 ARCS Fellows Lectures II (4 presentations), 1:00-5:00 p.m. June 12-13 ARCS Conference: Living after the Fall(?): Past-Present in Southeastern Europe (Cris Scarboro, organizer) All lectures begin at 5:45 unless otherwise noted American Research Center in Sofia 75 Vasil Petleshkov St. www.arcsofia.org .