ARCS Spring 2013 Fellows will present their research in two days:

April 23, 2013, 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Andriy Fomin (Rutgers University) Prodigia, Signs and Dreams in Historiography: The Example of Dio Cassius

Stefan Peychev (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Public building and urban spaces in Ottoman Serdica

Adrian Popan (University of Texas, Austin) Cults of personality of State leaders: causes and structural conditions in Totalitarian societies

April 24, 2013, 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Roy Kimmey (Central European University, Budapest) Secularization in the post-Socialist context: The Bulgarian Constitution of 1991

Elena Popan (University of Texas, Austin) Stereotypes attached to minority groups in post-Communist societies: the case of Roma

Elana Resnick (University of Michigan) Old objects, fragile life: waste and escape in Bulgaria

Nadezhda Savova (Princeton University) Food and cultural tourism in Bulgaria’s tangible places of intangible heritage