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July 2018
Populism and Propaganda: New Intersections – seminar
Three Lectures by Chantal Mouffe, Ivan Krastev and Mark Galeotti, with Panel Discussions will be presented on the international seminar Populism and Propaganda: New Intersections, on 9th July, 2018, New Conference Hall, Sofia University.
Find out more »March 2018
International seminar: “POPULISM AND PROPAGANDA: The Roots of the Anti-EU and Anti-NATO Social Attitudes Today”
Program* First session: The Populist Pro-Russian Propaganda in Bulgaria Moderator: Prof. Dr. Dimitar Vatsov (HSSF/NBU) 9.40 – 10.00: Opening Prof. Dr. Evgenii Dainov, NBU Colonel Orlin Nikolov, NATO CMDR COE Prof. Dr. Dimitar Vatsov, HSSF/NBU 10.00 – 10.20: “Russian economic footprint and media influence in Bulgaria” – Martin Vladimirov, analyst, Economic program, Center for the Study of Democracy. 10.20 – 10.40: “Anti-EU and anti-NATO propaganda in the Bulgarian media: 2013-2016” - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Milena Iakimova, Human and Social Studies…
Find out more »March 2016
The Protest Movements in the Public Space: Gezi Park in Istanbul
Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia and the Cultural Center of Sofia University are pleased to invite you to the public lecture of Prof. Nilüfer Göle In the frame of the project "Civic Practice for Students and Teachers. Post 2011 protests" funded by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria under the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 (www.ngogrants.bg). Nilüfer Göle is a Professor of Sociology at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Her scientific studies are…
Find out more »February 2016
Education and Migration
Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia is pleased to invite you to the public lecture of Prof. Krassimir Stoyanov The first part of the lecture will be a brief presentation of some of the current educational initiatives in Germany in the case of the coming to the country refugees. After that the lecturer will discuss what challenges face the educational practices in the process of re-actualizing and bringing up to date the notion of education itself in its normative…
Find out more »Europe and the Refugees: Is Europe on the brink of state of exception?
Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia
and
the Cultural Center of Sofia University
are pleased to invite you to the public Lecture of Leonardo Schiocchet
Find out more »November 2015
Second Public Lecture by Vassilis Petsinis
On November 20, 2015 Vassilis Petsinis made second public lecture on Ethnic relations, the EU, and geopolitical implications as guest of Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia in the frame of the project Civic practice for students and teachers. Post 2011 protests, funded by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria under the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 (www.ngogrants.bg), facilitator was Tom June. Petsinis made a comparison between the patterns for managing ethnic relations in Croatia and Estonia within the…
Find out more »First Public Lectures by Vassilis Petsinis
On November 19, 2015 guest-speaker of Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia in the frame of the project Civic practice for students and teachers. Post 2011 protests, funded by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria under the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 (www.ngogrants.bg) was Vassilis Petsinis who spoke on Russophilia as Component of National Populism in Greece, facilitator was Tom June.
Find out more »September 2015
Teacher-citizen: Current Civil Problems in Class, seminar for teachers
From the beginning of 21 century, but with particular intensity after 2011 in the whole world rose civil anxiety and protests. Do they have its place in the educational process and how today's Bulgarian student learns to be a citizen? And how we – teachers and lecturers - reconcile our professional and civic positions?
Find out more »How is Free Speech Being Eroded in Bulgaria?
There is no need to quote the surveys of “Reporters without borders” in order to notice that there is a standing and long-term issue with freedom of speech in Bulgaria. What are the reasons for the censorship and auto-censorship in the media? How are they linked to the form of financing? What are the high and low tides in the interrelationship between media and civic society?
Find out more »April 2015
Presentation – Youth Cultures of Socialism and Postsocialism Lifestyle, Conformism and Rebellion
The premiere of the new issue of Critique and Humanism journal took place on April 7, 2015, in the New Conference Hall of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” organized by HSSF - Sofia with the cooperation of Cultural Centre of SU "St. Kliment Ohridski". Volume 43 dedicated to Youth Cultures of Socialism and Post-socialism: Lifestyles, Conformism and Rebellion (edited by Elitza Stanoeva and Tom Junes) is organized in three rubrics with a total of fifteen papers by Bulgarian and foreign…
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