Announcement Double Lecture: Mission Bulgaria
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Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union ANNOUNCEMENT DOUBLE LECTURE: Tuesday March 27th 2018 MISSION BULGARIA Time: 13.30 h. By Prof. Nicolay Ovcharov and Campus Mercator, Building A (Abdisstraat, Gent), Prof. Plamen Pavlov Auditorium A203 (second floor) In the frame of Communication Programme of the The double lecture will deal with the advanced Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Bulgarian Presidency civilizations that evolved in the Bulgarian lands during of the Council of the European Union Prehistory, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The lecture will be complemented by a power point Co-organized with Ghent University (Department presentation, highlighting the most important of Archaeology, Ghent Center for Slavic and East archaeological sites, ancient books and miniatures, European Studies, and the Department of Translation, and will span the period from the Neolithic Interpreting and Communication) (7th millennium BC) through the Chalcolithic (5th millennium BC) and until the fall of the Second The lectures will be delivered in Bulgarian with Bulgarian Empire in the 14th century. simultaneous interpretation in Dutch. ON THE PRESENTERS Prof. Dr. Nikolay Ovcharov, born 1957 in Veliko Prof. Dr Plamen Pavlov is a historian of the Middle Tarnovo, is a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist, Ages, but also a current affairs writer, poet and TV who works mostly for the National Archaeological presenter. Since 1984 he has been teaching History of Institute with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Byzantium and of the Balkan Peoples in the 5th–15th He achieved popularity for discovering Tsar Simeon’s Centuries at the St Cyril and St Methodius University of royal palace in Veliki Preslav, the important medieval Veliko Turnovo. He has participated in various forums Monastery of St John Prodromos, and especially the and events of Bulgarian communities abroad (Ukraine, rock City of Perperikon and the sanctuary of Orpheus Moldova, the Czech Republic, the US, Romania, The near the Village of Tatul in the Eastern Rhodopi Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Western Mountains. He has made archaeological expeditions in Outlands, etc.). Plamen Pavlov is the author or co- Russia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Serbia, Montenegro and author of more than 300 papers, studies, books, the Republic of Macedonia. He has delivered reports textbooks, encyclopaedias, current affairs and poetry. and lectures at dozens of congresses, conferences and symposiums in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Austria, Moldova, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Russia, Georgia, Poland, Malta and Portugal. He has written more than 300 scientific works, including nearly 60 monographs and separate books. Some 70 articles of his have appeared in foreign journals and in foreign languages published in Bulgaria..