The application deadline for the 2012 FADS fellowship program has been extended until January 15, 2012.

Kathleen Weigand, ARCS fellow and graduate student in the Department of Art History at Trinity College, University of Dublin, will lead a seminar on the topic of ‘The Role of Traditional Dress in the Construction of National Identity. Painting in Bulgaria: 1905 – 1935’. The seminar will take place at ARCS, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., 1510 Sofia. The language of discussion will be English. The seminar is open to the public.

Giuseppe Ricci, ARCS fellow and graduate student in the Department of History at Princeton University, will lead a seminar on the topic of ‘Greco-Roman knowledge on the Nomad’. The seminar will take place at ARCS, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., 1510 Sofia. The language of discussion will be English. The seminar is open to the public.

The seminar of Dr. Milena Petkova-Encheva, Sofia University, on the topic of ‘Adapting to the Conquered Land. The kaza of Stara Zagora in the 16th c.’ has been postponed until Spring 2012.

The lectures will present the final results of the projects that received funding in 2010 within the program for the conservation of archaeological sites, conservation and museum enhancement (SPCME) implemented with the support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation.

Professor Naoum Kaytchev, Faculty of History, Sofia University, will lead a seminar on the topic of ‘Between Croatians and Illyrians: Croatian national models and their images on Bulgaria (1800-1850)’. The seminar will take place at ARCS, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., 1510 Sofia. The language of discussion will be English. The seminar is open to the public.

Professor Kostadin Grozev, Faculty of History, Sofia University, will lead a seminar on the topic of ‘10th November 1989: A Historian’s Retrospect in 2011’. The seminar will take place at ARCS, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., 1510 Sofia. The language of discussion will be English. The seminar is open to the public.

Professor Stefka Parveva, Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, will lead a seminar on the subject of ‘Reclamation and Organization of the Agrarian and Social Space in the Central and Southern Balkans under the Ottoman Rule (17th-early 18th c.)’. The seminar will take place at ARCS, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., 1510 Sofia. The language of discussion will be English. The seminar is open to the public.

Professor Markus Wien, Department of History and Civilizations, American University in Bulgaria, will lead a seminar on the subject of ‘The Bulgarian state youth organization Brannik 1942-44. Nation-Building among the youth’. The seminar will take place at ARCS, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., 1510 Sofia. The language of discussion will be English. The seminar is open to the public.

Professor Petia Gueorguieva, Department of Political Sciences, New Bulgarian University, lead a seminar on ‘Democratization, europeanization, and populism in ECE countries after their adhesion into the EU’.