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November 2011
Populist Movements in Europe
Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia (HSSF), supported by Trust for Civil Society for CEEIs glad to invite you to series of public lecturers During November/ December 2011 The third lecture will be given by Associate Professor Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po – Paris) Lecture Populist Movements in Europe (Comperative Analyzsis) Ragaru’s doctoral dissertation was devoted to the domestication of post-socialist changes in Bulgaria and the role of political connections and exchanges of favours in this process. She…
Find out more »The Right-s Critiques to the Left-s Usages of People
Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia (HSSF), Supported by Trust for Civil Society for CEE, Is glad to invite you to series of public lecturers, During November/ December 2011 The second lecture will be given by Associate Professor Daniel Smilov (Sofia Univerisity, Department of Political Sciences). Lecture The Right’s Critiques to the Left’s Usages of “People” The last couple of years the Bulgarian public space has known series of civic protests among which were the big strike…
Find out more »Educational Justice
Ongoing Theoretical Seminar „Challenges to Representative Democracy Today”, organized by Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia. Lecture Educational Justice Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Krassimir Stojanov, Bundeswehr University of Munich Moderator: assoc. prof. Boyan Znepolsky HSSF / Sofia University Entrance: free Language: Bulgarian Annotation During the past decade we observe a pluralization of the concept of justice. So nowadays it becomes more and more clear that “justice” in the context of education is not the same as “justice” in the…
Find out more »Отзив за лекцията на Красимир Стоянов
Образователната справедливост: в търсене на институционалните норми В рамките на постоянния теоретичен семинар „Предизвикателства пред представителната демокрация днес?” на Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София, на 14 ноември 2011 г., се изнесе поредната публична лекция. Изборът на тема „Образователна справедливост” изненадва на пръв поглед, по-късно стана разбираемо, че проблемът е особено актуален за немския контекст, дори и в политически план. Лекторът - проф. д-р Красимир Стоянов, е редовен професор по теория и философия на образованието в…
Find out more »October 2011
Down With Democracy! Long Live The People!
Ongoing Theoretical Seminar „Challenges to Representative Democracy Today”, organized by Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia. Lecture Down With Democracy! Long Live The People! Lecturer: assoc. prof. Boyan Znepolsky HSSF / Sofia University Moderator: assoc. prof. Dimitar Vatsov - HSSF / NBU Entrance: free Language: Bulgarian Annotation The lecture aims at presenting some core issues of the contemporary radical political philosophy. The philosophical critics used by radical philosophers do not reduce generally to globalization, neoliberalism or capitalism…
Find out more »August 2011
Резултати от конкурса за есе на ФХСИ 2011
Излязоха резултатите от конкурса за есе, обявен от ФХСИ-София. Всички събрани есета бяха оценени от жури в състав: Елица Станоева (член на редколегията, съставител на бр. 36, докторант по градска история в Техническия Университет Берлин); Мила Минева (член на редколегията на сп. Критика и Хуманизъм, асистент в Катедра Социология, СУ); Тодор Христов (доцент в Катедра Теория на литературата, СУ). Награди бяха присъдени на всеки текст, събрал два или три гласа. Победители в конкурса са: …
Find out more »July 2011
Тройно представяне
Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания – София (ФХСИ) има удоволствието да ви покани на официалната премиера на трите издания, съставени в рамките на първия етап от на изследователския проект "Предизвикателства пред представителната демокрация днес". Ще бъдат представени: "Критика и суверенност", кн. 32, бр. 2/2010 на сп. Критика и хуманизъм "Легалност и (не)легитимност на властта", извънреден брой 2010 на сп. Социологически проблеми "Политиката в пластовете на пространството и времето", кн. 33, бр. 3/2010 на сп. Критика и хуманизъм Изданията ще…
Find out more »June 2011
Reforms in Bulgaria and Illusions of Direct Democracy
Ongoing Theoretical Seminar „Challenges to Representative Democracy Today”, organized by Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia. Lecture Reforms in Bulgaria and Illusions of Direct Democracy Lecturer: prof. Hristo Todorov, Ph.D. (New Bulgarian University) Moderator: assoc. prof. Boyan Znepolsky HSSF / Sofia University Entrance: free Language: Bulgarian Annotation In the beginning of the transition period in Bulgaria, the newly born Bulgarian democratic movement announced two fundamental inquiries: the abolition of the single-party governance of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and…
Find out more »May 2011
Marketing Democracy
Ongoing Theoretical Seminar „Challenges to Representative Democracy Today”, organized by Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia. Lecture Marketing Democracy Lecturer: assoc. prof. Todor Hristov, SU Moderator: assoc. prof. Dimitar Vatsov - HSSF / NBU Entrance: free Language: Bulgarian Annotation The presentation will summarize the findings of a study of the electoral databases that played a crucial role in the 2004 and 2008 United States presidential elections. Electoral databases will be described as a symptom of the emergence…
Find out more »April 2011
Adam Seligman – Ambiguity and the Limits of Notation
Ongoing Theoretical Seminar „Challenges to Representative Democracy Today”, organized by Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia. Lecture Ambiguity and the Limits of Notation Lecturer: Adam Seligman - Boston University, USA Moderator: Dimitar Vatsov - HSSF / NBU Entrance: free Language: English Translation: not available Annotation This lecture explores the ambiguities built into human interaction and posits three common, cultural responses: notation, ritual and shared experience. It further analyses the limits and impossibilities of notation, understood as…
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