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