Историческите възстановки – динамика, статика, масовка. (Три роли, шест преживявания, един въпрос)

Author(s): Iliya Valev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

In recent years, so-called historical reenactments have become quite popular. Over time were formed groups of its “fans“ as well as critics. Thus, different research views on this phenomenon are a logical fact. By coincidence of life circumstances, I am in a position to allow a specific study of historical reenactments “from within“, because, in addition to being an ethnologist and museum curator, I am also an active historic reconstructor who participates in reenactments. In this study, I am looking through six historical reenactments in which I have directly participated, recreating three types of personalities – an ordinary unmarried young man from pre-industrial Bulgarian society, a clergyman from the Middle Ages and the Revival and a Bulgarian volunteer from the Russo-Turkish Liberation War(1877 – 1878). My target is, based on the “experience“, to look for the parameters of merging the present with the past in historical reenactments. What is the main reason for a modern person like me to look for a merger with a person from a bygone historical period and is it possible to do more than “playing“ in two events happening simultaneously – “once there“ and “here and now“. To answer this question, I use the method of personal history and critical self-reflection, analyzing the personal experience.

Nail, T. (2020). Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion.

Author(s): Didem Yilmaz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (2020), written by Thomas Nail, is an alternative book to approach posthumanism from a philosophical aspect. Its focus on motion correlates posthuman thinking with sociological, political, and philosophical dynamics by applying to Lucretius and continental philosophers. Its philosophical frame allows readers to comprehend posthumanism deeply by applying to ethics. The conceptualization of posthumanism, motion, and ethics is grounded in four fundamental methodologies including historical ontology, close reading, translation, and argumentation. Thus, the abstraction of the book is quite inclusive to envision what philosophical posthumanism is by delving into Lucretius’s philosophy.

Homo (nie do końca) sapiens

Author(s): Robert Piechowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 71/2021

For millennia, philosophers have pondered the question, “Who are we?” It becomes a burning question at an age of scientific and technological civilization and a world full of conveniences, mainly because human life is still not comfortable. Adam Hart takes up the challenge of confronting the evolutionary achievements of the Homo species and the environment it has produced, showing that our life—for fundamental reasons—cannot be the realization of idyllic visions.

Joachim Zdrenka, Złotów 1370–2020. 650-lecie miasta, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2020, ss. 574

Author(s): Błażej Śliwiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2021

Katarzyna Rembacka, Komunista na peryferiach władzy. Historia Leonarda Borkowicza 1912–1989, Warszawa–Szczecin 2020

Author(s): Michał Przeperski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2021

Дисертации

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Defended Ph.D. theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, and art studies

Научни форуми

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2021

60 години българистика в Китай

Author(s): Chen Ying / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Научен колоквиум „Българистиката в дигиталната ера“

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Синтия Вакарелийска на 70 години

Author(s): Iskra Hristova-Shomova,Margaret Dimitrova,Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Катрин Мери Макробърт на 70 години

Author(s): Dilyana Radoslavova,Elissaveta Moussakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Йоханнес Райнхарт на 70 години

Author(s): Iskra Hristova-Shomova,Margaret Dimitrova,Andrej Boyadzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Translations of Patristic Literature in South-Eastern Europe

Author(s): Ivan P. Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium and South-Eastern Europe

Author(s): Elena Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Етнолингвистичен речник на българската народна медицина

Author(s): Iliyana Garavalova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Руската богослужебна книга в българските земи след Кримската война (по материали от архива на Найден Геров) II част

Author(s): Antoaneta Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

The article is a continuation of a study published in 2012 in the journal “Historical Review” under the same title. Here the author summarizes data on Russian liturgical books delivered to the Bulgarian lands at the request and with the assistance of the Russian Vice Consul in Plovdiv Naiden Gerov. The information was found in the archive fund of N. Gerov in the Bulgarian Historical Archive at the National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” (NBCM–BIA) after the publication of the study, published in 2012.

Един документ, свидетелстващ за християнската етика и обществената ангажираност на българите в Oтечеството и в емиграция (Румъния) през 60-те години на XIX век

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

The proposed article pays attention to a document that provides valuable information in two directions. The first one is related to the Christian moral norms typical for the period of the Bulgarian National Revival. The second direction is related to the public self-organization and charity. The mentioned document is a letter (from 1860) sent by the notables of Tarnovo to their fellow countrymen in Ottoman Bulgaria, and in Romania (Bucharest) in order to help financially and morally their fellow-citizen Mihail Vasilev. He was a guild member (a furrier) and a merchant who became very poor in 1860. Probably the reasons for his pauperization were related to the specific economic and financial situation in the Ottoman Empire after the Crimean War (1853–1856). The negative factors caused by the war forced Mihail to leave the urban setting, and settle down in Romania. It is interesting to note that the spirit of Christian ethical norms (goodness, charity, compassion) influences the content of the whole document. The notables of Tarnovo urged their compatriots in the Bulgarian lands, and in Romania to help the needy and his family (a wife and five daughters). There are also some clues about merchants, their profession and wealth; the role of basic moral principles such as honesty. Last but not least, the discussed primary source can give the opportunity to assess the importance of self-organization of Bulgarians to help each other. Their social capital (social/entrepreneurial networks and contacts based on mutual trust) played an important role in such philanthropic activities.

Луи Пастьор (1822 – 1895) – химикът. По повод 200 години от рождението му

Author(s): Nano Stepanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

The article is dedicated to the 200-year anniversary of the great Louis Pasteur and aims to represent his work focusing on his less famous contributions as a chemist. By examining his accomplishments in the historical context of chemistry’s development – isomerism (between Berzelius and Van’t Hoff) and theory of fermentation (between Liebig and Berthelot). Based on his research on optically active substances (mainly tartaric acid and its salts) he distinguishes optical activity caused by crystal structure and molecular asymmetry, hypothesizes that the way atoms are positioned in a molecule is the cause for optical activity, defining a new form of isomerism thus paving the way for stereochemistry. The later scientific achievements of Pasteur are related to him entering the world of microorganisms – fermentation, disproving the theory of spontaneous generation, clarifying the origin and prevention of infectious diseases. It is emphasized that he is a scientist who takes his work out of the laboratory and ‘into the world’: examining the diseases of the silk worm, difficulties in brewing, wine and vinegar production. He communicates with people affected by the problem, exchanges knowledge and experience with them, offers advice, includes them in his search for solutions. Generally describing his work as a physicochemist, biochemist, microbiologist, immunologist and his personality with emphasis on his morality as a scientist. He is a patriot, citizen, humanist and a true benefactor of humanity.

Славянският семинар на университета „Алберт-Лудвиг“ във Фрайбург и българистиката

Author(s): Mladen Vlashki / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Втора международна славистична коференция, посветена на паметта на светите братя Кирил и Методий

Author(s): Svetlana Kornienko / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022