Bulgarian National Science Fund Balkan Ethnology Department

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Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with

Ethnographic Museum –

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

SOFIA, MOSKOVSKA 6A

October 30-31, 2017

Organization committee:

Prof. DSc. Rachko Popov

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mila Maeva

Assist. Prof. Magdalena Slavkova, PhD

Assist. Prof. Yelis Erolova, PhD

PROGRAMME

30 October2017 (Monday)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „BETWEEN THE WORLDS: PEOPLE, SPACES AND RITUALS” IEFSEM-BAS, Sofia, 6a Moskovska str.

Time Hall 19

08.45-09.15

Registration

09.15-09.30

Welcome address

09.30-10.00

Keynote Speech:

„To go or to stay: a sending country perspective”

Prof. Dr. Vesselin Mintchev Economic Research Institute at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

10.00-10.15

Coffee Break

Time Hall 19 Mirror Hall

Session I

10.15-12.00

Panel 1

LOCAL AND GLOBAL CULTURES Moderator: Albena Gueorgieva

Panel 2

BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY

Moderator: Veselka Toncheva

10.15-10.30

Where are you a local of? About rituals

and spatiality of multilocal people here,

there and in-between

Cédric Duchêne-Lacroix

Communal celebrations in the local

environment. Traditions and modernity

Valentina Vaseva

10.30-10.45

Is the primary care in Poland betwixt

between the local and global

medical discourse? The ethnographic

study of the cracks, the local and

global and the new and old in

Polish primary care

Hubert Wierciński

The house-building

practices of Bulgarians.

Traditions and innovations in

comparative prospect:

the Metropole – Colonies

Alexandr Prigarin

10.45-11.00

The disease is never as visible

as pimple on your forehead

(About the choice between traditional,

alternative and conventional medicine)

Violeta Kotseva

Adoption from Foster-care in Bulgaria -

latest legal ideas analyzed through

some recently collected empirical data

Elya Tsaneva, Hristinka Basheva

11.00-11.15

Emotions in motion. How music and

ritual could shape consciousness –

case of Warsaw rave party

Robert Statkiewicz

Who bad-mouthed hemp? The

contemporary village in eastern Serbia

between tradition and the media

Svetlana Ćirković

PROGRAMME

30 October2017 (Monday)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „BETWEEN THE WORLDS: PEOPLE, SPACES AND RITUALS” IEFSEM-BAS, Sofia, 6a Moskovska str.

Time Hall 19 Mirror Hall

Session I

Panel 1

LOCAL AND GLOBAL CULTURES

Moderator: Albena Gueorgieva

Panel 2

BETWEEN

TRADITION AND MODERNITY Moderator: Veselka Toncheva

11.15-11.30

Invasion and immersion: the experience

of reconstructing the "other world" in the

classical museum space using artifacts of

the culture of folk carnivals from the

Russian Ethnographic Museum Elena Dyakova

The Fight-the-dragon

motif in the song

The Retrieval of

Knez Lazar s Head -

mythology, history, national idea

(Bulgarian-Serbian parallels)

Tsvetelina Dimitrova

11.30-12.00

Discussion

Discussion

12.00-13.30

Lunch Break

Session II

13.30-15.15

Panel 1

THE ENTANGLED HISTORY: MEMORIES AND IDENTITIES Moderator: Irina Sedakova

Panel 2

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AND SPIRITUAL SPACES

Moderator: Vihra Baeva

13.30-13.45

Binding the present with

the distant past

Evgenia Troeva

The time of wooden Gods

Mare Kõiva, Andres Kuperjanov

13.45-14.00

Collectivism vs. individualism:

the marginalization of the

person during the

Communist regime

Petya Bankova

Memory and rituality in a changing

religious landscape. Orthodox –

Muslim interactions in the region of

Pole, East Albania

Ivaylo Markov

14.00-14.15

Memory culture, identity dynamics and

arriving in the changing society.

A case history: GDR, Bulgaria and the

FRG

Lilia Uslowa

Islamophobia as a social phenomenon

in Western societies

Hayri A. Emin

14.15-14.30

The memory on a labor-educational

school - experiences and politics

Anelia Kassabova, Tsvetana Manova

The religious songs of

Muslim Roma

Hristo Kyuchukov

PROGRAMME

30 October2017 (Monday)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „BETWEEN THE WORLDS: PEOPLE, SPACES AND RITUALS” IEFSEM-BAS, Sofia, 6a Moskovska str.

Time Hall 19 Mirror Hall

Session II

Panel 1

THE ENTANGLED HISTORY:

MEMORIES AND IDENTITIES Moderator: Irina Sedakova

Panel 2

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AND

SPIRITUAL SPACES Moderator: Vihra Baeva

14.30-14.45

Between the worlds – the Dolno

Dryanovo Thracian sanctuary

Albena Gueorgieva

From the veneration of the Virgin

Mary to the Byzantine folk mantikê:

cultural narratives and religious

symbolism in the Kalinitsa festival in

Asenovgrad

Zlatina Bogdanova

14.45-15.15

Discussion

Discussion

15.15-15.30

Coffee Break

Session ІІІ

15.30-16.45

Panel 1

RITUALS, SACRED SITES AND HOLY PLACES

Moderator: Evgenia Troeva

Panel 2

VIRTUAL WORLDS

Moderator: Petya Bankova

15.30-15.45

The virgin dead in the world of demons

Rachko Popov

Russian and Bulgarian Facebook

communities: between the virtual and

real Ritual Year(s)

Irina Sedakova

15.45-16.00

Between the worlds: beliefs and ritual

practices at saint s graves and relics

Vihra Baeva

Living here, sharing there

Slavka Karakusheva

16.00-16.15

Patterns of forging the national cuisines

in the 18th -21st century (Before

exploring the Bulgarian case)

Stefan Dechev

Zombies, aliens and the slenderman:

supernatural beings

in the contemporary children s lore

Reet Hiiemäe

16.15-16.45

Discussion

Discussion

16.45

End of the 1st Conference Day

17.00-18.00

Cultural Programme:

Plamache Folklore Ensemble, Art Director: Ivaylo Parvanov

Welcome cocktail with Bulgarian traditional foods

PROGRAMME

31 October2017 (Tuesday)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „BETWEEN THE WORLDS: PEOPLE, SPACES AND RITUALS

IEFSEM-BAS, Sofia, 6a Moskovska str.

Time Hall 19

09.00-09.30

Keynote Speech:

„Illusions and delusions of a generation that did not believe

in rituals nor in borders: A personal account” Prof. Juan F. Gamella

University of Granada, Spain

Time Hall 19 Mirror Hall

Session IV

09.30-11.00

Panel 1

LIFE EXPERIENCES

ACROSS BORDERS

Moderator: Plamena Stoyanova

Panel 2

CONSTRUCTION OF HOMELAND:

TRADITION, NATIONAL AND

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Moderator: Anelia Kassabova

09.30-09.45

Brain Drain or Brain Gain? A

Comparative Study of Bulgarian and

Romanian Youth Migration

Kristina Frye

Ukraine to Finland: employment

agencies between employees,

employers and politics

Alexander Ganchev

09.45-10.00

The overlooked side of Romani

migrations –processes, identities,

formations, and potentials

Alexandar Marinov

The Memory construction and

destruction games within the scope of

persianization politics in Iran

Artum Dinç

10.00-10.15

School experience and difficulties for

the children of Roma migrants

Magdalena Slavkova

Why keep protecting the few without

external incentives? Compliance with

minority rights norms after attaining IO

membership in Latvia and Georgia

Neal Suleimanova

10.15-10.30

„All my cousins are in facebook :

Social media, transnational

online spaces and kin networks in

a Korturare Diaspora from Western

Romania

Juan F. Gamella, Francisco J. Ogayar,

Giuseppe Beluschi Fabeni, Vasile

Muntean

Worlds and fears

Kremena Hristova

10.30-11.00

Discussion

Discussion

11.00-11.15

Coffee Break

PROGRAMME

31 October2017 (Tuesday)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „BETWEEN THE WORLDS: PEOPLE, SPACES AND RITUALS

IEFSEM-BAS, Sofia, 6a Moskovska str.

Time Hall 19 Mirror Hall

Session V

11.15-12.45

Panel 1

LIFE EXPERIENCES

ACROSS BORDERS 2

Moderator: Elya Tsaneva

Panel 2

CONSTRUCTION OF HOMELAND:

TRADITION, NATIONAL AND

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 2

Moderator: Sofiya Zahova

11.15-11.30

The migratory careers of adult

migrants in the outskirts of Madrid:

between society and community

Elisa Brey

Căluş in Romania between tradition, heritage and national calendar

Lina Gergova

11.30-11.45

(In)tangible meanings of tangible

belongings within mixed families life

Desislava Pileva

Name problem, namecide and

name anomie

Vildane Dinç

11.45-12.00

Between worlds –

magic in immigration

(Bulgarian cases from the UK)

Mila Maeva

Vyshivanka parade and Day of

Vyshivanka: old elements, new practices,

worldwide extension

Tanya Matanova

12.00-12.15

The student brigades in the US –

a new beginning or life experience?

Plamena Stoyanova

Cosplay culture in Estonia

Rahel Laura Vesik

12.15-12.45

Discussion

Discussion

12.45-14.15

Lunch Break

Session VI

14.15-15.45

Panel 1

RE-IMAGING SELF AND

OTHERS

Moderator: Lina Gergova

Panel 2

BORDERS AND BORDERLESSNESS

Moderator: Stefan Dorondel

14.15-14.30

In the footsteps of the medieval

traveler

Desislava Najdenova

(Un)Familiarity, common Identity,

instrumentalized identity. Cross-border

relations between the regions of Petrich,

Republic of Bulgaria and Strumica,

Republic of Macedonia

Petko Hristov, Violeta Periklieva

14.30-14.45

Perception of Ours-Foreign in

Tradition Funeral Ritual of South

Bessarabia Bulgarians

Halyna Stoianova

Between the past and the present,

between here and there,

between us and them

Mina Hristova

PROGRAMME

31 October2017 (Tuesday)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „BETWEEN THE WORLDS: PEOPLE, SPACES AND RITUALS

IEFSEM-BAS, Sofia, 6a Moskovska str.

Time Hall 19 Mirror Hall

Session VI

Panel 1

RE-IMAGING

SELF AND OTHERS

Moderator: Lina Gergova

Panel 2

BORDERS AND BORDERLESSNESS

Moderator: Stefan Dorondel

14.45-15.00

Ours and foreign in Bessarabia:

communicational environment and

commemorative practices

Svetlana V. Koch

Rituals of internal frontiers.

The Csangos in Romania

Stelu Şerban

15.00-15.15

On the other side of Otherness:

literary images of the non-Roma in

works by Romani authors

Sofiya Zahova

Male/female/unisex – traditional views

and contemporary stereotypes

Ina Pachamanova

15.15-15.45

Discussion

Discussion

15.45-16.00

Coffee Break

Time Hall 19

Session VII

16.00-17.30

Panel 1

HOME IN MOTION

Moderator: Anna Krasteva

16.00-16.15

The Egyptians dreaming of a better yesterday

Mihaila Yordanova

16.15-16.30

The ashes of the Balkan route

Andrea Mignogna

16.30-16.45

Life moved from Syria to Turkey

Savaş Çağlayan

16.45-17.00

Refugee pathways between European laws and Bulgarian reality

Albena Nakova, Yelis Erolova

17.00-17.30

Discussion

17.30-17.45

CONFERENCE CLOSING

18.00-18.30

Cultural Programme:

Sveta Paraskeva Academic Choir at National Academy of Arts,

Conductor: Galina Lukanova