23-24.11.2023 Scientific Conference MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: RESEARCH, HERITAGE PROTECTION, SOCIALAZATION

INSTITUTE OF BALKAN STUDIES AND CENTER OF THRACOLOGY

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: RESEARCH, HERITAGE PROTECTION, SOCIALAZATION

November 23-24, 2023

Languagies: Bulgarian, Ukrainian, English.

Culture is the second nature, the sphere of human sense of being. Under the threat of a new world war, culture looks especially fragile.

The picture of modern culture is largely determined by the ideas of modernity and postmodernity era, both through their development and their rethinking, adaptation or denial. Modern culture is a certain set of original cultures that are interacting, and their dialogue goes not only along the present day axis, but along the “past future” axis, as well.

Cultural and intercultural contacts studying, analysis of the modern historical and cultural situation requires consideration of material history as part of the cultural heritage interpretation, as well as the contemplating the modern museum organizations, the researching of individual objects and generalization of the whole museum collections.

The conference is aimed to trace the relationship between social, historical, political and other problems that arise in the modern and contemporary culture, to understand the culture responses. We will deal the questions researched in diachrony and synchrony, an interdisciplinary approach will be considered as well to discuss debatable issues. Key problems, ways and results of studying, protection and socializing the culture will be considered theough contextual, semiotic, valuable aspects.

Scientists and researchers in various cultural fields are welcome to participate in the conference: culturologists, art historians, museologists, historians, archaeologists, theologians, sociologists, literary scholars, etc.

You can send an application for participation until October 23, 2023. In your application you are supposed to state the theme of your report (in Ukrainian- English or Bulgarian-English) and an abstract (up to 300 words) to e-mail: conference.culture2023@balkanstudies.bg

Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their applications by November 1, 2023.

The main focuses of the conference outline the scope, but do not restrict the variety of topics: will be:

• Theoretical and historical aspects of modern and contemporary culture studying;

• East – West: dialogue of cultures and civilizations

• Art in a cultural context;

• Culture, art and war;

• National, regional, local cultures: problems, methods and directions of

  research;

• Cultural dialogue: past, present and future;

• Culturology in the religion culture context;

• Socialization of cultural heritage;

• Cultural heritage protection;

• Personal and social transformation of conceptual sphere as response on

  cultural changes;

• Museification of the cultural environment and interpretation of artifacts.

The online (ZOOM) conference is supposed.

Conference materials will be published in a peer-reviewed edition after double anonymous review.