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December 11 (Thursday), 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Bulgarian Reparation Payments after World War I
lecture by Valeri Kolev (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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November 28 (Friday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Groupe du Champ Freudien - Bulgarie, New Bulgarian University and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
The Autism and Its Thearpeutic Pledge: More than Autonomy Or More than A Social Relation
public lecture of Danielle Lakadet-Labro (France)
Danielle Lakadet-Labro is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, a member of The Freudien Cause School and Champ Freudien. She has been working in Bulgaria together with Groupe du Champ Freudien – Bulgarie for more than 10 years. She took part in To Grow Without Parents and The Child and Its Symptoms educational programmes. Her publications translated in Bulgarian can be found in “Meet the Child. The Hospitality Laws Compendium”, Sofia, 2004, and “The Sympoms of Indifference Compendium”, Sofia, 2006, and “The Child and its Symptoms”, Sofia, 2008.
The lecture presents psychoanalytical view point towards treatment of the autism that is to support the autistic person in associating with other people as well as it opposes the idea about autonomy of the austistic person that is detaching him/her from any connetion.
The lecture is the second of four lectures series, which present the contemporary tendencies and development in the Lacanian psychoanalitic school.
Moderator – Vessela Banova
In Bulgarian and French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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November 28 (Friday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The French Institute - Sofia, BECSA, Center for Liberal Strategies, The Embassy of France and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI - Bulgaria present a lecture of the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”:
The European Union – One Territory, Borders and Horizons
public lecture of Michel Foucher, followed by a debate
Michel Foucher is the founder of the European Geopolitical Observatory.
Moderator: Toni Nikolov (editor-in-chief, RFI-Bulgaria)
In French, with simultaneous interpretation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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November 27 (Thursday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Dignity of the Undignified. Sofia’s Urban Plebeians in the 1920s.
lecture by Milena Yakimova (Sofia University St.Kliment Ohridsky)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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November 5 (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Across the History of Balkan Utopias
lecture by Nadia Danova (Institute for Balkan studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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20 October (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, BECSA, Center for Liberal Strategies, The Embassy of France, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI - Bulgaria present a lecture of the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”:
A Common European Tax System – an Utopia Or Future Reality?
public lecture by Prof. Jacques Le Cacheux (France), followed by a discussion Discussant: Georgi Ganev (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia)
Prof. Jacques Lecacheux is a Director of the Department of Studies, of the Centre for economical researches of Science Po (OFSE) and a Professeur at L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Faculty of law, economics and management.
Moderator: Toni Nikolov (editor-in-chief, RFI-Bulgaria)
In French, with simultaneous interpretation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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7 October (Tuesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Bulgarian Legal Metamorphoses – Between Statism and Liberalism. Three Socio-Economic Case Studies: 1878-1944, 1944-1989 and 1989-2006
lecture by Ivo Hristov (Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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October 3 (Friday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Groupe du Champ Freudien - Bulgarie, New Bulgarian University, Ciela Publishing House and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
The Strange Laws that Rule Our Existence
Public lecture of Daniel Roy, France – psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, member of the Freudian Cause School (www.causefreudienne.org), and of the New Lacanian School, Chairman of Groupe du Champ Freudien – Bulgarie
The lecture is the first of four lectures series and launches the book
The Family Complexes by Jacques Lacan
(Translation by Krassimira Tocheva, Assen Tchaouchev and Teodora Pavlova)
For this first publication in Bulgarian of a text of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan his daughter Judith Miller chooses one of his first works named The Family Complexes in Forming of Individual (Les Complexes Familiaux dans la formatuion de l’individu) that has been published in French Encyclopedia in 1938. In this brilliant text Jacques Lacan elucidates the family in the context of modernity and thus he builds the foundations of a thought over psychoanalytical clinic. The text is accompanied by a commentary of Jacques-Alain Miller, psychoanalyst, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (www.wapol.org), Head of the Department in Psychoanalysis of Paris 8 University and publisher of Jacques Lacan’s works.
Moderator – Vessela Banova
The book is published in Bulgarian thanks to Champ Freudien, Ciela Publishing House and Vitosha programme of the French Institute – Sofia.
In Bulgarian and French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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September 29 (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Forgetting Eastern Europe
public lecture by Chris Hann (Germany)
Chris Hann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Athropology, Halle (Germany). He was Professor of Social Anthropology at Kent from 1992 to 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 he was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin. His recent publications include: “Not the Horse We Wanted! Postsocialism, Neoliberalism and Eurasia”, 2006, Münster: LIT; “The Postsocialist Religious Question; Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe”, 2006, Münster: LIT; “The Postsocialist Agrarian Question: Property Relations and the Rural Condition”, 2003, Münster: LIT.
In the framework of the comparative interdisciplinary project “Remembering Communism”, that includs researchers from Bulgaria, Romania, Germany and the US, with project leaders Prof. Maria Todorova, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA and Prof. Stefan Troebst, Leipzig University.
With the financial support of Volkswagen Stiftung.
Interpretation in Bulgarian provided.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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September 26 (Friday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Just an Afterthought: A History of the Memory of Communism
public lecture by Istvan Rev
Istvan Rev is Professor of History and Political Science at the Central European University, Budapest. He is also the Academic Director of the Open Society Archives. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley. Since the early 1980s Rev has published widely on the political, cultural, and architectural history of Hungary and other Eastern bloc countries.
In the framework of the comparative interdisciplinary project “Remembering Communism”, that includes researchers from Bulgaria, Romania, Germany and the US, with project leaders Prof. Maria Todorova, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA and Prof. Stefan Troebst, Leipzig University.
With the financial support of Volkswagen Stiftung.
In English, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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July 14 (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Populism in East Central Europe: a Legacy From State Socialism?
public lecture by Prof. Dieter Segert (University of Vienna), followed by a discussion with the participation of d-r Rumiana Kolarova /Sofia University/ and Prof. Anna Krasteva (New Bulgarian University)
Populist politics has recently emerged as a strong force in East Central Europe. Since the system change in 1989 distrust in institutions especially in parties and parliaments has reinforced itself. A tendency to personalize politics has provided favourable conditions for political populism in these countries. There are signs of these tendencies in other East Europeans societies as well. The reasons of this phenomena are disputed: is that a result of political trends in a globalised world, of general emergence of media democracy, or a legacy of state socialism? The lecture tries to verify or to falsify mainly the last thesis.
Moderator: Prof. Anna Krasteva (New Bulgarian University)
Part of the lecture series “The Crisis in Central Europe”, a joint project of the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Open Society Institute – Sofia and Department “Political Sciences” at NBU.
In English, with interpretation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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July 1 (Tuesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA), The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Embassy of France, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI - Bulgaria present a lecture of the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”:
The Priorities of the French Presidentship of European Union
public lecture of His Excellency the Ambassador of the Republic of France in Bulgaria Mr. Etienne de Poncins, followed by a discussion.
The lecture coincides symbolically with the date when France takes the responsibility to be the President of European Council of EU- 1st of July.
Моderator: Тоny Nikolov (editor-in-chief, RFI - Bulgaria)
In French, with simultaneous interpretation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 18 (Wednesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The EU in the World: Civil Power or Global Power?
public lecture by Christian Franck (Head of the Institut d’Etudes Européennes de l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), followed by a debate.
In French, no interpretation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 10 (Tuesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies (CLS): ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Reflexions on a Conjecture: What Would Monetary Policy Have Been in the Absence of a Currency Board Arrangement in Bulgaria?
lecture by Kalin Hristov (Bulgarian National Bank)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 2 (Monday) 2008, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies (CLS): ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Occupational Structure of England (1755-1881)
lecture by Leigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge, UK)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In English, no interpretation provided.
Free entrance
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May 14 (Wednesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies (CLS), Communitas Foundation, Open Society Institute – Sofia and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Russia Today
lecture by Rouslan Hestanov
For the today’s state of democracy in Russia, seen through the history of power party “Unified Russia”/Edinnaya Rasseia” in the context of establishing of half-multiple party system in Russia.
Rouslan Hestanov is a PhD in University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and deputy editor-in-chief of “Russia Reporter” magazine.
Part of the lecture series “The Crisis in Central Europe”, a joint project of the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Open Society Institute – Sofia.
In Russian, interpretation in Bulgarian provided.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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May 14 (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies (CLS): ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Names of the April Uprising (1876)
lecture by Albena Hranova (University in Plovdiv)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 12 (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA), The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Embassy of France, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI - Bulgaria present a lecture of the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”:
Are European Elections Second-Rate Elections?
public lecture by and discussion with Olivier Costa (Institut d'études européennes de l'Université libre de Brugge, Professor in Collège d'Europe (Bruges) and Université Libre of Bruxelles)
A year before the coming elections for MEP this lecture rises the question why the citizens of EU member states underestimate the elections of their representatives in EP – something that is obvious if we look at the elections turnout in most of EU member states.
Моderator: Тоny Nikolov (editor-in-chief, RFI - Bulgaria)
In French, with simultaneous interpretation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 12 (Monday) 2008, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
The Association of Sociology Students at Sofia University (ASSSU) presents:
New Forms of Human Rights and Civil Activity in the 21st Century
The so-called human rights are first of all civil rights, which means that they are neither universal, nor firm or everlasting. Their formulation is subject to a constant redefinition and renegotiation between the active members of the civil society.
With the participation of: Barbara Duden (Hanover University, Germany); Dimitry Kochenov (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Holland); Ivan Krastev (Center for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria); Miglena Todorova and Rastko Mocnik (Ljubljana University, Slovenia), along with 50 young people from Central and Eastern Europe to discuss these issues.
In English, with simultaneous interpretation in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 30 (Wednesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Sigmund Freud University (Vienna) and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Social Dimensions of Psychoanalysis: Politics, Culture, Education, Society
public lecture by Prof. Alfred Pritz
Moderator: Dr. David Ieroham, M.D.
How and to what extent does psychoanalysis reflect the contemporary social realities? Is there space in Bulgaria for psychoanalysis, psychoanalysts and psychotherapy?
Psychoanalysis has its own reading in various cultural, political and social processes. In most cases it does not coincide with the readings theoreticians and analysts interpreting those processes for the public domain do. The nature of psychoanalytical approach relates to unconscious processes. Often its reading of those processes has its own style and senses that all other approaches lack. That reading is not obligatory but it is not a secondary one either. Psychoanalytical approach creates new meanings and opportunities for orientation in the present and deserves to get its position amongst other approaches exploring social realities.
In English, with interpretation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 22 (Tuesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies (CLS), Communitas Foundation, Open Society Institute – Sofia and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
After Putin - Putin?
public lecture by Irina Yassina (Russia)
Irina Yassina is an economist by education and a journalist by vocation. She is a deputy president of the Liberal Mission Fund and a program director of the Open Russia Fund (established by Mikhail Hodorkovsky) till its compulsive closing by Russian authorities in 2006.
In her lecture Yassina offers her reading of Russia’s political situation one month after the presidential “elections”.
Part of the lecture series “The Crisis in Central Europe”, a joint project of the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Open Society Institute – Sofia.
In Russian, with interpretation in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 15 (Tuesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Center for Liberal Strategies (CLS): ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Inflation Stabilization Efforts in Argentina: The Working of a Currency Board lecture by Alfredo Canavese (Universidad Torcuato di Tella; CONICET, Buenos Aires)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (Center for Liberal Strategies) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In English, no interpretation provided.
Free entrance
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April 9 (Wednesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Fosil Energy Crisis and the Alternative of Renewable Sources
public lecture by Tomi Engel (International Solar Energy Society, German Section Head of Working Group on Solar Mobility, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie).
In English, no interpretation in Bulgarian provided.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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March 31 (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Seeing in the Dark: Night Vision Systems and Applications
public lecture by Dr. Alexander Toet, Senior Researcher, TNO Defense, Safety and Security - The Netherlands
Night vision devices provide the ability to see and manoeuvre during periods of reduced visibility. The lecturer presents the new colour mapping procedures, and discusses the results of some preliminary observer experiments.
The visit of Dr. Alexander Toet is part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info).
The web site of Digital Spaces has been nominated as the best e-Content example from Bulgaria for the (World Summit Award Global Contest in the e-Inclusion category.
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL and the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
With translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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March 26 (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies (CLS): ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents
On the History of Social Movements in Central and south Eastern Europe: Women’s Movements and Feminisms in ХIХ-ХХ century
lecture by Krasimira Daskalova (Sofia University)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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March 21 (Friday) 2008, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Open Society Institute-Sofia and The Red House Center for culture and debate present the seventh lecture of "Crisis in Central Europe" cycle:
Post-Accession Slovakia: Cohabitation of Populists and Liberal Democracy
public lecture by Grigorij Meseynikov (Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Slovakia)
One of the main points of the lecture is the extent of the impact of populist parties on the state of society and the democratic institutions in Slovakia. In the period prior to country’s NATO and EU membership, it was only the active resistance on the part of Slovakia’s pro-democratic civil society, which has kept the country from subverting the liberal-democratic political order there. Thanks to Slovakia’s full-fledged EU membership, the system of democratic institutions is now much more consolidated; the populists do not openly question democratic rules and their immediate participation in government does not threaten to undermine the liberal democratic regime.
Part of "Crisis in Central Europe" cycle of lectures - a bilateral projecy of The Red House Center for culture and debate and Open Society Institute-Sofia.
In English, with interpretation in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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March 19 (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Center for Liberal Strategies (CLS): ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Images of Bulgaria in British Commercial Discourses before 1914
lecture by Mika Suonpaa (University of Hull, UK)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (Center for Liberal Strategies) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In English, no interpretation provided.
Free entrance
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March 13 (Thursday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Belgrade, Pristina, Ankara: Does the EU Have a Strategy for South Eastern Europe?
public lecture by Gerald Knaus (European Stability Initiative)
Ever since the dramatic events in Kosovo in 1999, the European Union sees the EU membership trajectory for the Balkan countries as a tool for stabilisation of the region. The “EU membership promise” has been perceived as an instrument of excercising soft power over a region that includes Turkey as well. With recent developments across the Balkans, is the EU soft power fading away?
Gerald Knaus is the founder and chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), a Berlin-based think tank (www.esiweb.org)
In English, no translation in Bulgarian provided.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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March 4 (Tuesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Horror, not Honour: Politics of Memory in Poland
public lecture by Irena Grudzinska Gross (Poland)
The post-1989 changes in Eastern Europe, and especially those after the EU accession, caused an almost unbearable tension between the need to maintain national and personal continuity on the one hand and the necessity to open old (physical and mental) borders and concepts of national history on the other. Hence the growth of nationalism, which is kind of an alergic reaction to the post-sovereignity national existence within the European Union. An example of that reaction are the discussions about the past and its meaning that are now raging in Poland.
Part of "Crisis in Central Europe" cycle of lectures - a joint project of Center for Culture and Debate The Red House and Open Society Institute-Sofia.
In English, with interpretation in Bulgarian.
Entrance: 2/1 BGN
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27 February (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Socialist Entrepreneur in Bulgaria, 1950s-1970s
public lecture by Ivan Tchalakov (Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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13 February (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
School Hygiene in Bulgaria in the Early XX c.: Cultural Representations, Professional Roles and Practices
a lecture by Gergana Mircheva (Sofia University)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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11 February (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red Hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA), The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Embassy of France, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the following, eleventh lecture of the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”
How the Daily Routine Europe Has Been Build? Beyond the Coulisses of Brussels
public lecture and discussion with Jean Quatremer - a very well-known journalist, covering EU for the “Liberation” newspaper
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI - Bulgaria
In French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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February 11 (Monday) 2008, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
“Polish Politics: Democratic Deficit and Party System Institutionalization”
public lecture by prof. Radosław Markowski (Poland)
In his lecture Professor Markowski outlines the central features and peculiar developments of the party system in Poland with a special focus on the recent, post - EU accession period. He looks for the sources of the fluidity and the lack of ‘systemness’ of the Polish party system in the post-communist transition period of the country and offers an explanation for the recent shifts in popularity of the Eurosceptic, radical anti-systemic parties in Poland. The paradoxical situation of the highest in the region voter volatility coupled with the lowest turnout at elections is also at the focus. Yet it is the alarming trend in Polish politics of questioning the very pillars of liberal democracy not primarily by the general population but mainly by the new political elite, which ia at the centre of the public talk of the prominent Polish political scientist.
Part of "Crisis in Central Europe" cycle of lectures - a bilateral projecy of Center for culture and debate The Red House and Open Society Institute-Sofia.
Free entrance
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February 9 (Saturday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Web, Advertisement and Shop Usability
public lecture by Mr Michael Schiessl, Managing Partner, eye square GMBH, Germany
Michael Schiessl built up the sector of ad-effectiveness research at eye square. He develops new tools for the investigation of the processes of advertisement reception (print and tv). He integrated physiological and behavioural methods like skin response and zapping behaviour and developed the analysis of perception modes in our tool Visualizer for attention analysis.The visit of Michael Schiessl is a collaborative project with Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, which is part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info)
The web site of Digital Spaces has been nominated as the best e-Content example from Bulgaria for the (World Summit Award Global Contest in the e-Inclusion category.
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL and the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
With translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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January 29 (Tuesday) 2008, 7.00 p.m
Red hall
Attentive Technology Today
lecture by Dr Stavri Nikolov - Director and Head of Research - Attentive Displays Ltd, UK
Attentive Displays are (software and hardware) display systems that monitor, sense and process viewer attention and behaviour with the purpose of dynamically modifying and tuning the information content they present to the cognitive resources of the viewer and his needs, and allowing real - time interaction with this content. To achieve this, attentive displays typically sense non-verbal cues such as presence, proximity, body orientation, gestures and eye gaze of the viewer. In particular, eye fixations have been shown to correlate well with the locus of attention.
Part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info).
The web site of Digital Spaces has been nominated as the best e-Content example from Bulgaria for the World Summit Award Global Contest in the e-Inclusion category.
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL and the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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January 28 (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red Hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI - Bulgaria present within the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”:
Neighbourhood policy
public lecture and a discussion with Erwan Lannon, professor in international law and EU institutions - Collège d’Europe.
Erwan Lannon is an expert in EU’s Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies.
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI - Bulgaria
In French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 23 (Wednesday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Money against the Canon: one of the instruments of the Bulgarians’ struggle against the Patriarchate of Constantinople during the 1860ies
lecture by Vera Boneva (Shumen University “Constantin Preslavsky”)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 17 (Thursday) 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Nationalism in the Ideology and Culture of Late Socialism (1970s-80s)
public lecture by ass prof. Ivan Elenkov, Sofia University
This lecture addresses the role of nationalism in late Bulgarian socialism by analyzing two events that were central to the socialist state and society at the time: the 1981celebration of 1300 years of Bulgarian statehood, and the changes in the ideological interpretations of the Bulgarian past in relation to the so-called “Re-birth Process” in the mid-1980s.
Part of the lecture series “Nationalism Today: Are the Balkan Nationalisms Different?”
Supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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January 10 (Thursday) 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Gulliver hall
Postcommunist Transitions: Nationalism in Contemporary Eastern Europe
public lecture by Dr. Anna Mirkova
The postcommunist transitions in Eastern Europe were characterized by social, economic, and cultural dislocation.In most countries, the transitions were colored by ethnic tensions.In some, like former Yugoslavia for instance, tensions culminated in wars and mass murders reminiscent of the interwar and WWII periods.How can we explain the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia?
Part of the lecture series “Nationalism Today: Are the Balkan Nationalisms Different?”
Supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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January 3 (Thursday) 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Gulliver hall
Contemporary Challenges to the Nation - state: Migration and Multiculturalism
public lecture by Dr. Anna Mirkova
In the globalized world, many expected that nationalisms would die out. This does not happen however. Why is it so? Where is the border line between the positive and negative nationalism? How does the love for one's country turn into hatred towards The Other? What impact do processes of economic and cultural globalization have on the professed homogeneity of the nation-state? How do the contemporary European nation-states respond to demands for pluralism by their diverse populations? Is pluralist national citizenship a viable concept?
Part of the lecture series “Nationalism Today: Are the Balkan Nationalisms Different?”
Supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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December 20 (Thursday) 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Gulliver hall
The 'Re-birth' Process in Bulgaria
public lecture by Dr. Mihail Gruev and Dr. Alexey Kalionski
Dr. Gruev and Dr. Kalionski will talk about the policies and attitudes toward minorities in Bulgaria, with special reference to the so-called "re-birth" process.
Part of the lecture series “Nationalism Today: Are the Balkan Nationalisms Different?”
Supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
Tickets: 2/1 lv.
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December 18 (Tuesday) 2007, 4.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Nationality Conflicts, Border Effects and Asymmetric Integration: Evidence from the Habsburg Customs Union
lecture by Max-Stephan Schulze (Department of Economic History,
London School of Economics & Political Science).
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In English.
Free entrance
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December 12 (Wednesday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
3-D Graphics for the Entertainment Industry
public lecture by Vladislav Dunev, Rapan LLC (USA) and Gabriel Dobrev - CIO of
Haemimont Games
In this lecture Vladislav Dunev will uncover the secrets of computer games creation – from pre-production to the importance of artistic style, graphic design, to the dramaturgy and the profile of the personages. Gabriel Dobrev will tackle with the topic of mass market product - a work of a man or a team that is used or otherwise consumed by tens of thousands up to billions of people or more.Which was the first mass market product? How much of your daily life is spent with mass market products? What makes one popular? How to design one? We explore the design of mass market products and try to ask the right questions and nail down the correct answers.
Part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info)
The web site of Digital Spaces has been nominated as the best e-Content example from Bulgaria for the (World Summit Award Global Contest in the e-Inclusion category.
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL and the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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December 12 (Wednesday) 2007, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Chimneys Amidst the Vineyards. Crush Industrialization of Agrarian Societies: the Case of the Balkans
lecture by Ekaterina Nikova (Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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December 10 (Monday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Center for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
Should the Enlargement of the EU Continue?
public lecture and discussion with Sylvie Goulard, president of the “Mouvement europeen France” amd Chetin Kazak - deputy in Bulgarian parliament and ex - observer in European Parliament.
Moderator: Toni Nikolov (editor-in-chief, RFI -Bulgaria)
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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December 3 (Monday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The Future of Reading – Optimistic and Pessimistic Scenarios
lecture by Alexander Kiossev, Sofia University
In an era when new media and communications emerge, the lecture tackles with the "Fall of Gouthenberg galaxy". The ambiguous opinions for the actual situation of publishing, various reading strategies and the reading awareness, comprehensions and motivations are to be discussed. The core issue of this lecture is the general attitude of reading towards democracy and individual authonomy.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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November 16 (Friday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Center for Liberal Strategies and the Department of Political Science of Sofia University present:
European-American Vistas – With a Touch of Irony
public lecture by Prof. Wolf Lepenies
Wolf Lepenies is professor of sociology at Free University, Berlin and senior researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin. His book „Culture as Seduction in Germany’s History” inspired a fierce debate in German society and brought several awards to the author, including the Piece Price of the German Association of Booksellers. Prof. Lepenies is one of the most respected German intellectuals, author of several scientific works, outstanding opinion leader, who both with his writings and with his actions, prooves the interdependence between moral and science. He affirms the figure of the “active intellectual” as a model of civic daring and concern for the wellbeing of society.
In English, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian
Free entrance
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November 14 (Wednesday) 2007, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: „The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History” Seminar presents:
Money and Prices in Vidin during the 18th Century
lecture by Hristian Atanasov (National Archives)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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November 9 (Friday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Impact of the EU upon ‘Domestic Democracy’ in its Member - States
public lecture by Philippe Schmitter, European University Institute, Florence and Central European University, Budapest
Philippe Schmitter is professor of political science in the European University Institute, Florence and the Central European University, Budapest. A world famous name, a political scientist that has transformed the understanding of a series of political phenomena like the European corporatist model of interest representation, transition from authoritarian rules in South Europe, Latin America and the post-communist countries and the problems of the consolidation of the democratic political regimes there, as well as of the emerging Euro-polity. Professor Schmitter talks about the often-neglected impact of EU on the “practice of
democracy” in its member-states.
Part of the lecture series “The Crisis in Central Europe”, a joint project of the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and
Open Society Institute – Sofia.
In English, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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November 8 (Thursday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Digital Photography
public lecture by Boriss Missirkov and Petar Abadjiev
Digital photos are all around us. Millions of them are being captured every day by mobile phones, portable cameras, digital SLR cameras, etc. Digital photography offers numerous
new opportunities. With this lecture given by leading Bulgarian photographers that make active use of new digital technology, we would like to offer a unique view of how digital photography has changed our lives. Followed by a discussion, moderated by Ivo Hadjimishev. Part of The Red Houseâs Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info) a year-long monthly lectures and interactive sessions cycle and an exhibition that bring together leading researchers and developers in computer innovations. The programme aims at presenting cutting edge interactive technologies to the intellectually curious Bulgarian audience. For more information: www.digitalspaces.info
Digital Spaces has been nominated as the best e-Content example from Bulgaria for the (World Summit Award Global Contest) in the e-Inclusion category (see Bulgarian WSA site for more information)
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL and with the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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November 5 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
The New European Treaty and the EU Institutional Reform: What Are the Perspectives for Development until 2010?
public lecture by Philippe Herzog, former MEP and professor in University, president of the Association Confrontations Europe, member of the Council for Analyses to the Prime-Minister. More information on http://www.philippeherzog.org
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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October 29 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
European Union and the World Economical Governance
public lecture by Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of Bruegel
With the participation of: Svetla Kostadinova, Executive Director of the Institute for Market Economy
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI, Bulgaria
In the recent 20 years Europe has gone through a difficult way - the European Union has grown from 12 to 27 member states, created its own internal market and settled a common currency - the euro. This inner transformation caused essential outside changes.
In French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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October 24 (Wednesday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Communal Capitalism. Reflections on Bulgarian Economic Past
public lecture by Roumen Avramov
Roumen Avramov (1953) is an economist and historian of economic life, author of numerous studies, including The Economic 20th Century of Bulgaria. He works at the Centre for Liberal Strategies. Previously he was with the Economic Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, deputy-chair of the Agency for Economic Programming and Development, member of the Governing Board of the Bulgarian National Bank.
The lecture is part of the memorial lectures “Dju”, organized by the Centre for Liberal Strategies to commemorate Julia Gurkovska.
The lecture is in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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October 18 (Thursday) 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Gulliver hall
Ethnicity, Nation, Nationalism
public lecture by Dr. Anna Mirkova
In the globalized world, many expected that nationalisms would die out. This does not happen however. Why is it so? Where is the border line between the positive and negative nationalism? How does the love for one's country turn into hatred towards The Other?
Anna Mirkova holds a PhD in Balkan and East European history from the University of Michigan (USA).
Part of the lecture series “Nationalism Today: Are the Balkan Nationalisms Different?”
Supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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October 18 (Thursday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights and Open Society Institute – Sofia present as part of the series of public discussions about the judicial system reform and the protection of human rights in Bulgaria:
Prohibition of Discrimination
debate on the compliance of the Bulgarian law and practice with Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Introduction and presentation of the main issues by Daniela Mihaylova.
Tickets: 1 BGN
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October 12 (Friday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
GPS Systems and Applications: Digital Maps, Digital Cities
public lecture by Rossen Russinov, General Manager, Datecs GIS Center
GPS technology helps to answer many “where is/where are” questions. Putting objects, resources and people on the map in real time gives many exciting possibilities for new kinds of services and businesses and for better living.
Part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info) – a year-long monthly lectures and interactive sessions cycle and an exhibition that bring together leading researchers and developers in computer innovations. The programme aims at presenting cutting edge interactive technologies to the intellectually curious Bulgarian audience. For more information: www.digitalspaces.info
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL
With the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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October 3 (Wednesday) 2007, 11.00 a.m.
Red hall
British Council and the British Embassy invite you to the launch of
Tomorrow’s Politicians Toolkit
presented by Jeremy Hargreaves, Vice Chair of the Liberal Democrats' Federal Policy Committee and
Engaging with the Electorate in the 21st Century
discussion
The toolkit is the result of the British Council’s UK-South East Europe Forum, a two-year regional initiative designed to provide free space for debate and partnership-building between young politicians in South East Europe and the UK. Mr Hargreaves will be presented by the British Council’s director Ian Stewart.
In English.
Entrance: by invitations
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September 26 (Wednesday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Celebrating Diversity
public lecture by the Iranian intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo
Moderator: Ivan Krastev
‘No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive,’ said Mahatma Gandhi. Today, no one is untouched by the impact of diversity in our world. Cultural diversity has become our everyday reality. The world has some 6000 communities and as many distinct languages. Such vast difference naturally leads to diversity of vision, beliefs, values and practice. Progress in mass communication and transport technology in today’s world has enabled us to overcome geographical boundaries and being inter-linked to such an extent that a local carnage in Rwanda or a bomb explosion in Baghdad has an immense impact on an ordinary citizen in Spain, in Japan or in Australia. Therefore, globalization is not just about an extension of market principles or an increase in capital flows. It is also about the cross-border flow of ideas that affect cultural diversity… The question is neither to idealize nor to reject the ‘other’. We must overcome deformations that usually go under the name of ‘Orientalism’ or ‘Occidentalism’, because the celebration of diversity is an antidote to terror wars and culture clashes….
With the support of the Central European University, Budapest and Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
In English with translation into Bulgarian
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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September 26 (Wednesday) 2007, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Anti-Americanism: From Bad Table Manners to Terrorism
рublic lecture by Brendon O'Connor
Moderator: Ivan Krastev
Brendon O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia. He is the author of A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas Have Consequences (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), co-editor with Martin Griffiths of The Rise of anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2006) and editor of the volume series entitled Anti-Americanism (Greenwood, 2007).
Brendon O'Connor's four-volume series on anti-Americanism explore the history and sources of anti-Americanism, provide a case-by-case understanding of anti-Americanism in countries across the globe, and give detailed analysis of anti-Americanism in the post 9/11 world.
With the support of the Central European University, Budapest and Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
In English with Bulgarian translation.
Free entrance
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September 24 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
What Should the EU Energy Policy Be Like?
public lecture by Hughes Belin, French journalist who has been working on energy issues for more than ten years, former communications officer for Eurelectric, Editor in Chief of Europolitics “Energy”
and a debate with Alexander Bojkov (former minister of economy and energy and chief negotiator with the EU) and Nikolay Minkov (Chairman, Infrastructure, Energy & Utilities Committee, Confederation of Employers & Industrialist in Bulgaria “CEIBG” and Managing Partner, Uconomics, Centre of Competence in Infrastructure & Energy, Public Services & Utilities, Affiliated to Economedia and Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt.)
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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September 24 (Monday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Enlightenment vs. Fundamentalism. Whom Belongs the Language of Art?
public lecture by Mikhail Ryklin, with screening of the film “Responsible for everything!” (Anna Alchuck, documentary, Russia, 11 min.), followed by a discussion
In his talk Mikhail Ryklin will describe and analyse the events around the destroyed exhibition “Beware, Religion!” (Moscow, January 2003) in an attempt to foresee what consequences it will have for the future of contemporary culture. Who has the right to interpret artworks? Is one (i.e. the artist) entitled to use the religious (Christian) symbols in his work without paying regard to their ritual role in the church? Should artist take risks defending his language or should he just obey to the law of the strongest (in the most cases the strongest is one, who gets the support of the State, the market etc.)?
Mikhail Ryklin is winner of the 'Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2007'
With the support of Goethe-Institute Bulgaria.
In Russian with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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September 21 (Friday) 2007, 7.00 p. m.
Red hall
The Russian Media Scene: Institutional Decline and Industrial Rise
public lecture by Maria Lipman, editor, Pro et Contra journal, Carnegie Moscow Center
During Putin’s presidency the Kremlin policy has taken mass-audience media under control and radically marginalized those outlets that still pursue relatively independent editorial lines. The Russian media are fully de-institutionalized: they cannot serve as a tool of public accountability, nor can they serve as a channel of feedback between the government and the society. Those media outlets that are still relatively independent make no difference in policy-making, since they are not integrated in a democratic network of checks and balances - for the simple reason that all democratic institutions have been emasculated and reduced to mere facade. In the meantime, as a business, or as an industry the Russian media have flourished, especially in the past couple of years. New media empires are on the rise, but they shun away from political and public-affairs media.
Part of the lecture series “The Crisis in Central Europe”, a joint project of the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Open Society Institute – Sofia.
In Russian with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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September 17 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Interaction of Internet and Mobile Services
public lecture by Mr. Atanas Raykov, Converged Services Manager of Vivatel
This lecture will explore the possibilities and challenges opened by the increased need for interaction between Internet and mobile services. One of the main challenges is delivering
content and services especially tailored for the specifics of the mobile phones’ users.
Part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info) – a year-long monthly lectures and interactive sessions cycle and an exhibition that bring together leading researchers and developers in computer innovations. The programme aims at presenting cutting edge interactive technologies to the intellectually curious Bulgarian audience. For more information: www.digitalspaces.info
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL
With the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Entrance: 3/2 BGN
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July 13 (Friday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
E-Government
public lecture of Mr Youri Alkalay, Director of the e-Government Directorate Ministry of State Administration and Administrative Reform
A lecture about the development of the e-Government in Bulgaria and what are the fundamental principles in the Law for Electronic Management in the Republic of Bulgaria and their influence on the legislation and the work of the state administration.
Part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info) – a year-long monthly lectures and interactive sessions cycle and an exhibition that bring together leading researchers and developers in computer innovations. The programme aims at presenting cutting edge interactive technologies to the intellectually curious Bulgarian audience.
For more information: www.digitalspaces.info
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL
With the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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June 25 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
An Apology of Antagonism
public lecture by Sławomir Sierakowski, Poland
In his lecture Sławomir Sierakowski will look for the sources of the crisis in Central Europe in the general trend after the end of the Cold War to perceive and advertise liberal democracy as a non-controversial political ideal with no alternative. The dominant interpretation of this ideal is a consensus-based liberal democracy, on which the wise and rational elites are the only political actors with a right to voice the values and defend the interests of the coherent, non-antagonistic societies, silencing thereby any disagreement and conflict there. This idealized picture is not true to some fundamental facts of political reality, which is by its nature deeply antagonistic and pluralist. The recognition of this fact requires urgent and thorough revision of the currently dominant interpretation of the democratic ideal.
Part of the lecture series “The Crisis in Central Europe”, a joint project of the Red House for Culture and Debate and Open Society Institute – Sofia.
In English, with Bulgarian translation
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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June 12 (Tuesday) 2007, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: “The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Public images of the civil servants in Bulgaria, end of the 19th – early 20th century
a lecture by Galina Goncharova (Sofia University “St Kliment of Ohrid”)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 11 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red Hall
Political Malaise in Central Europe: Causes and Solutions
public lecture by Jirí Pehe, Czech Republic
Jirí Pehe, once Chief Political Advisor to former Czech President Václav Havel, is a political analyst and Director of New York University in Prague. In his lecture he argues that the current political crisis in Central Europe is due both to historical reasons and the rise of populism in the region after EU accession, as well as to a crisis of political leadership, caused by the influence of modern media on politics. Part of the lecture series “The crisis in Central and Eastern Europe”, realised in partnership with Open Society Institute – Sofia.
In English, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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May 30 (Wednesday) 2007, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian
Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Comparative History of the European Peripheries in the 19th Century
lecture by Marta Petrusewicz (Hunter College, City University of New York)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
The lecture is organised jointly with the “Guest Lecturers” program of the Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 29 (Tuesday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Cognitive Robotics: How to Tell a Robot from a Human?
lecture by Ass. Prof. Dr. Maurice Grinberg, New Bulgarian University
This lecture covers recent progress in the attempts to achieve animal and human cognitive performance in robots. Demonstrations with the Aibo robot are performed showing the progress of the NBU team in equipping a robot with an analogy making artificial mind. After the end of the lecture the audience has the opportunity to play with robots.
Part of The Red House’s Digital Spaces programme
(www.digitalspaces.info) – a year-long monthly lectures and interactive sessions cycle and an exhibition that bring together leading researchers and developers in computer innovations. The programme aims at presenting cutting edge interactive technologies to the intellectually curious Bulgarian audience.
For more information: www.digitalspaces.info
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL
With the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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May 21 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Myth of Creative Writing: Can It Be “Taught”?
lecture by Elizabeth Kostova
The author of the international best-selling literary novel “The Historian” speaks on the craft of writing and the ways in which it can be nurtured by the writer and society. She and her publisher, Ciela, as well as an independent board, also announce a new organization that provides opportunities for Bulgarian writers and foster ties among Bulgarian, American, and British literary writers.
In English, with translation into Bulgarian.
Invitations only
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May 17 (Thursday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI –Bulgaria present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
The European Parliament: a Tool for European Democracy
public lecture by Jean-Paul Gauzes, a MEP
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 9 (Wednesday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Europeаn Elections
public lecture by Quentin Peel, followed by a discussion
Quentin Peel is international affairs editor of the Financial Times. He is also an associate editor, responsible for leader and feature writing, and writes a foreign affairs column,
Between The Lines. Quentin has worked at the FT since 1975. Between 1976 and 1994 he served successively as southern Africa correspondent, Africa editor, European Community correspondent and Brussels bureau chief, Moscow correspondent, and chief correspondent in Germany. On his return to London he became foreign editor. He took up his present position in September 1998.
Only a few days after the President Elections in France followed closely by Quientin Peel in connection to his work for Financial Times, in the lecture held in The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, he is going to talk about the choices that Europe is facing in the context of the forthcoming elections for European MPs in Bulgaria.
In English, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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May 7 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Creative Work with Mentally Ill Patients Тhrough Drawings and Other Means of Visual Arts
lecture by Reinhild Gerum, Germany
A presentation about the art-therapeutic practise of the lecturer in a hospital for mental illnesses in Munich, Germany. Reinhild Gerum works with mentally ill people. Since 2000 she has been a lecturer at the NurembergUniversity and since 2001 - at the Munich University. She works with drawings, art objects and installations. In co-operation with Goethe-Institute. Part of the Kunst aus dem Koffer project.
In English, with consecutive translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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May 4 (Friday) 2007, 11.00 a.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Art Networks in Germany. The Female Artists’ Union GEDOK
talk by Teresa Dietrich and Reinhild Gerum, Germany
followed by a tour through the exhibition and an informal discussion with the artists.
In co-operation with Goethe-Institute. Part of the Kunst aus dem Koffer project.
In English.
Free entrance
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April 23 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Mobile Bristol: Authoring Digital Spaces
public lecture by Dr. Kirsten Cater
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK
With this lecture The Red House gives a start of its Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info) – a year-long monthly lectures and interactive sessions cycle and an exhibition that bring together leading researchers and developers in computer innovations. The program aims at presenting cutting edge interactive technologies to the intellectually curious Bulgarian audience.
For more information: www.mobilebristol.com and www.digitalspaces.info
With the general sponsorship of: Vivatel
With the support of Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma group and with the media partnership of ICT Media, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
In English.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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April 2 (Monday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
Constitutional Challenges in front of the European Union After the Enlargement
public lecture by Thierry Chopin, director of studies, Foundation Schuman
and a debate with Ass. Prof. Dr. Julia Zaharieva, Professor in European Law at the Juridical Faculty of Sofia University and President of the Science Council of the European Law Institute - Sofia
Moderator: Toni Nikolov, editor-in-chief, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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March 27 (Tuesday) 2007, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Bulgarian-Japanese Relations and their Impact on Bulgaria’s Economic and Technological Policy: 1960ies-1980ies
lecture by Evgeni Kandilarov (Sofia University)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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March 13 (Tuesday) 2007, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Eating Out: an Attempt of Historical Interpretation (Bulgaria, 1878-1939)
lecture by Raina Gavrilova (Sofia University)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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March 5 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The Bulgarian Photographers Association presents:
Young Slovakian Photography
public lecture by Lucia Benicka (Slovakia) and presentation of The Summer Photographic school in Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovakia).
Lucia Benicka is a curator and research-specialist in the filed of contemporary Slovakian photography, a director at the House of Photography in Liptovsky Mikulas – one of the major institutions of photography in Slovakia. During the last decade the Summer Photographic School has established itself as a unique event in Central and Eastern Europe, where up to 16 workshops of leading artists from Europe and the USA take place every year.
In English.
Free entrance
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March 5 (Monday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
Migration Policies in the European Union
public lecture by Catherine de Wenden
With the participation of: Prof. Anna Krasteva (Department
“Political science”, New Bulgarian University, director of the Centre on Migration Studies)
Catherine de Wenden is a director of studies in CNRS (CERI) and Doctor of political science (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris)
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden is both a political scientist and a lawyer. She has been working for twenty years on various topics related to international migrations. She has also led many field studies and directed collective research on comparative topics, mostly European. She was a consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Council, the European Commission and “external expert” for The UN Refugee Agency.
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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February 20 (Tuesday), 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Demographic Trends and State Policy towards the Family: Bulgaria in the 1930s and 1940s
lecture by Svetlana Baloutsova (New Bulgarian University)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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February 6 (Tuesday), 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Scenes from the Life in a Provincial Town: How “Domesticated” Electricity Changed Everyday Life of Stara Zagora’s Citizens
lecture by Evgenia Ivanova (Museum of History, Stara Zagora)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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February 2 (Thursday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
Territorial Diversities and European Cohesion
public lecture by Michel Delebarre, President of the Committee of the Regions
The lecture talks about the role of the Committee of the Regions in the policy of decentralization of the Lisbon Strategy and the impact of the enlargement on the regional politics in Europe. Michel Delebarre is also well known for his interest in the topic of urban zones as motor of European competitiveness.
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 25 (Thursday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI present within the cycle “Europe - Here and Now”:
Research and Innovation in Europe up to 2010
public lecture by Prof. Gérard Brugal
In this practice-oriented lecture Prof. Gerard Brugal will talk about the specific skills and expertise involved in carrying through Europe-wide scientific research, and the role the European Union plays in supporting such research.
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 15 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Institute for Critical Social Studies presents on the occasion of its 15th anniversary:
Post-democratic Europe: A New Conception or a Side Effect?
lecture by Prof. Rastko Močnik, University of Ljubljana, doctor honoris causa of the University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski", co-chairman of the International Board of Directors of the Institute for Critical Social Studies
In English, with consecutive translation into Bulgarian.
Invitations only
Limited ticket availability upon previous reservation: 2/1 BGN
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November 13 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Images of Desire beyond the Iron Curtain
Story telling by Mila Mineva
“Report” on how the crazes of the consumer Western society enter the everyday life of socialist Bulgaria in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, illustrated with photos and other evidences…
In Bulgarian.
Part of the Scent of Socialism cycle.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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October 26 (Thursday), 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Modernization of Bulgaria and “Modernization” in Bulgaria
lecture by Georgi Dimitrov, Sofia University
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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October 16 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present within “French Perspectives on Europe”:
The Normative Power of the European Union
lecture by Zaki Laidi, Institute for Political Science, Paris
Moderator: Tony Nikolov, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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October 11 (Wednesday), 5.30 p.m.
Red hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
On the Social History of the Balkans during the Wars, 1911-1923
lecture by Ivan Ilchev, Sofia University
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In English.
Free entrance
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September 25 (Monday), 6.30 p.m.
At The French Institute in Sofia,
2, Dyakon Ignatiy Str.
The French Institute – Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present within “French Perspectives on Europe”:
How Will the Enlargement to the East Affect the European Union?
lecture by Jacques Rupnik, National Foundation for Political Sciences (FNSP), Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris
Moderator: Tony Nikolov, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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September 12 (Tuesday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
The Center for Liberal Strategies presents:
Memorial Lecture for Dju (Julia Gurkovska)
Lecturer: Yonko Grozev
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 20 (Tuesday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present within “French Perspectives on Europe”:
Europe and Turkey
lecture by Semih Vaner, Director of the Center for International Studies and Research, Paris, professor at the Institute for Political Science, Paris
Moderator: Tony Nikolov, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 31 (Wednesday), 3.30 p.m.
Red hall
The Romanian Reform Model in the Legal System and the Fight against Corruption
lecture by Monica Macovei, Minister of Justice of Romania
Mrs. Monica Macovei will be introduced by the Minister of European Affairs of Bulgaria Mrs. Meglena Kuneva.
In English, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 12 (Friday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
LIK Publishing House presents:
150th Anniversary of Sigmund Freud Birth and launch of Orlin Todorov’s book The Psychoanalysis: Fragments of an Introduction
The book will be presented by the author.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 9 (Tuesday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present within “French Perspectives on Europe”:
Europe and Antiglobalism
lecture by Eddy Fougier (Institute for Political Science, Paris)
Moderator: Tonny Nikolov, RFI, Bulgaria
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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April 28 (Friday), 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia presents within the Social Science Evenings:
Max Weber and the Charisma of the Scientist
lecture by Isabelle Kalinowski (National Centre for Scientific Research)
With the participation of Ass. Prof. Lilyana Deyanova and Ass. Prof. Boyan Znepolski
(Sociology Department at the Sofia University)
In collaboration with the Social Sciences College, Paris, Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 25 (Tuesday), 7.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall
The Portuguese Revolution of April 25, 1974 – Democracy, Development and the End of the Portuguese Empire
lecture by Delfim Correia da Silva, lecturer of the Camoes Institute at the St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University. Excerpts from short documentaries about the Portuguese Revolution will be screened during the lecture.
In Portuguese, with consecutive traslation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 12 (Wednesday), 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar and The Center for Academic Research present:
Evolution of Ottoman Financial Institutions, 1600-1840
lecture by Sevket Pamuk (The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. President, European Historical Economics Society, Association of European Economic Historians)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Science).
In English.
Free entrance
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April 10 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia, The Centre for Liberal Strategies and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present within “French Perspectives on Europe”:
Al-Qaeda - Between Facts and Myths
lecture by Gilles Kepel (National Centre for Scientific Research)
Disputant: Ass. Prof. Vladimir Tchukov
Moderator: Tonny Nikolov, RFI
In French, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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April 3 (Monday) 2006, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Czech Experience in European Funds Utilization
Public lecture of Karel Firla, Director of Interel (European Public Affairs and Corporate Communication, s.r.o) www.interel.cz
With the participation of Georgi Ganev, Programme Director, Centre for Liberal Strategies.
In collaboration with the Czech Centre, Sofia.
In Czech, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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March 22 (Wednesday) 2006, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The National Income of Bulgaria, 1892 – 1945: Growth Without Development?
lecture by Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Science)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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March 10 (Friday) 2006, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia presents within the Social Science Evenings:
The Specter of Internationalisation: Cosmology of Modernity?
lecture by Jackie Assayag (National Centre for Scientific Research)
In collaboration with the Social Sciences College, Paris, Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
In French, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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March 8 (Wednesday) 2006, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Legal Framework of the Incentives for the Bulgarian Industry, 1895 – 1928
lecture by Rumiana Parvanova (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Science)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Science). In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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February 22 (Wednesday) 2006, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Market and Modernization. German-Bulgarian Relations 1918 – 1944 and their Conceptual Foundation
a lecture by Markus Wien (European University Institute, Florence)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In English.
Free entrance
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February 8 (Wednesday) 2006, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The “own foreigners” of the Ottoman Empire: Trade and Minorities in Rumelia, 17-18 centuries
a lecture by Svetlana Ivanova (Sofia University)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 18 (Wednesday) 2006, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Economic Vision of the Bulgarian Right, 1920-1944
a lecture by Nikolai Poppetrov
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
The event is in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 14 (Saturday) 2006, 10.00 a.m.
Hall One, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, 15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
The French Institute – Sofia and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Atelier Social Sciences
Internationalization of the Arts in the 20th century
a lecture by Philippe Roussin (National Centre for Scientific Research) in collaboration with Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski
In collaboration with the Social Sciences College, Paris, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The event is in French, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 13 (Friday) 2006, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute – Sofia presents within the Social Science Evenings:
Nationalization of Languages: Literary Debate in Europe in the 1930's
a lecture by Philippe Roussin (National Centre for Scientific Research)
In collaboration with the Social Sciences College, Paris, Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The event is in French, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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December 17 (Saturday) 2005, 10.00 a.m.
Hall One, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, 15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
The French Institute – Sofia and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Atelier Social Sciences
Uninstitutionalized Cultural Practices
a lecture by Emmanuel Pedler (The Social Sciences College, Paris)
In collaboration with the Social Sciences College, Paris, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University and BAS.
The event is in French, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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January 14 (Saturday) 2005, 10.00 a.m.
Hall One, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, 15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
The French Institute – Sofia and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Atelier Social Sciences
Internationalization of the Arts in the 20th century
a lecture by Philippe Roussin (National Centre for Scientific Research) in collaboration with Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski
In collaboration with the Social Sciences College, Paris, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The event is in French, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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December 13 (Tuesday) 2005, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The American Near-East and the Rockefeller Foundations in Bulgaria – Inititives in the Field of Social Care, 1920ies and 1940ies
Milena Angelova (South-Western University, Blagoevgrad)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS), and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, BAS).
The event is in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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December 6 (Tuesday) 2005, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Department of Cultural Studies at Sofia University presents:
Cultural Policy and the Social Context: Some Reflections and Challenges
Public lecture of Dr. Maurice Roche
About the EU cultural policy in social context from a sociological perspective. Key concepts and alternative approaches to their analysis and understanding.
The event is in English.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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December 6 (Tuesday) 2005, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
CLS: ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Social Diagnosis and Social Therapy – Professionalisation of Women’s Social Care in Bulgaria During the 1930ies
Kristina Popova (South-Western University, Blagoevgrad)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS), and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, BAS). The event is in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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November 12 (Saturday) 2005, 10 a.m.
Hall One, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, 15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
The French Institute – Sofia and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Atelier Social Sciences
The Four Parts of the World. Reflections on the Origins of Mondialisation
a lecture by Serge Gruzinski, (The Social Sciences College, Paris)
In collaboration with the the Social Sciences College, Paris, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The event is in French, with simultaneous translation in Bugarian.
Free entrance
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November 11 (Friday) 2005, 6 p.m.
French Institute – Sofia, 2 Diakon Ignatii Str.
The French Institute – Sofia and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Social Science Evenings
16 c. Art Mondialisation
a lecture by Serge Gruzinski, (The Social Sciences College, Paris)
In collaboration with the the Social Sciences College, Paris, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The event is in French, with simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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November 3 (Thursday) 2005, 7.30 p.m.
Red hall
The Centre for Advanced Studies presents:
Joseph Raz on Human Rights
public lecture
Joseph Raz, D. Phil., Oxford, is a graduate of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A professor of philosophy of law, Oxford University and fellow of the Belliol College since 1985. An affiliated professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University, New York. Author of the books. “The Authority of Law” (1979), “The Morality of Freedom” (1986). “Practical Reason and Norms” (1999), “Engaging Reason” (2000), “Value, Respect, and Attachment” (2001). “The Concept of a Legal System” (1980) is his only work, published in Bulgarian.
The event is in English, translation provided.
Free entrance
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September 8 (Thursday), 2005, 5.30 p.m.
Red hall
The Netherlands and Bulgaria on the Road to a Sustainable Social Policy
Public lecture of Mr Henk van Hoof, State Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment of the Netherlands.
Simultaneous transaltion will be available.
Entrance: invititaions only.
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July 13 (Wednesday) 2005, 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
Art Activism
Lecture of John Henry (USA) followed by discussion.
John Henry is the nickname of a representative of the Institute for Applied Autonomy - anonymous collective of artists and engineers who develop technologies in support of a critical dialogue. The members of the collective believe that if captured in the museums, the politically engaged art will never reach its most important audience. What should be done? The socially engaged art should go out on the streets!
The lecture is in English.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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July 5 (Tuesday) 2005, 7.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red Hall
Public lecture of prof. Ilian Mihov:
What is Happening with the Global Economy?
Prof. Ilian Mihov is professor in economics at INSEAD, France. He holds a PhD degree from Princeton University, USA. Prof. Mihov is studying the microeconomic effects of fiscal policy and the impact of state regulation o | |
