Memory Topos: Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Seminar
The Memory Topos: Bulgarian Cultural Heritage seminar was held in Koprivshtitsa on 20 and 21 August 2024 under NSP Bulgarian Studies
In the Renaissance atmosphere of the Stariradev’s House, now a creative home of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a seminar was held, in which members of the project team from the Institute of Art Studies under the National Scientific Programme Bulgarian Studies took part.
The event opened on August 20 at 10:30 with welcome words from the Director of the Institute of Art Studies Prof. Joanna Spassova-Dikova, PhD. She emphasized the opportunities offered by the Programme for the promotion and reinforcement of Bulgarian studies abroad and in particular the important role of research in the field of arts in this field. Then Arch. Popova, PhD, opened a discussion among the participants about the results over the past two years, mainly in the third package of the work programme which focuses on the preservation of cultural memory with modern digital means. The methods and objectives of the project and the planned events in the remaining year were discussed.
The next session of the seminar took the form of a workshop where participants viewed with virtual reality glasses the spaces of a Thracian sanctuary at Sheynovets Peak in the Rhodope Mountains and a 19th-century house from the town of Teteven. The objects are digitally and three-dimensionally reconstructed by Arch. Dimitrina Popova, PhD. This panel of the seminar also included a presentation of her monograph Architectural Heritage in photographs of 19th-century houses. The workshop continued with a drone photoshoot of fragments of the ancient urban structure of Koprivshtitsa by Kamen Tabakov.
The second day of the seminar, August 21, began with a presentation by Prof. Andronika Martonova, PhD. She presented an analysis of documentaries that reflect the cultural ties between Japan and Bulgaria during the socialist era. These are the works 1000 Cranes and Threads from the Rainbow by Hristo Kovachev and the Roots of the Rising Sun, part of the work of the director Valo Radev.
In the next panel Prof. Arch. Stela Tasheva, PhD, introduced the participants in the seminar to the digital lectures she developed together with Arch. Nona Tsekova, PhD. The next presentation by Arch. Albena Zaharieva mainly included the current state of the monastery near the village of Seslavtsi.
In the final part, the participants in the event reported the contributions from the multidisciplinary discussions and a scientific and applied workshop to the Memory Topos: Bulgarian Cultural Heritage project.
The seminar was held within the implementation of a project under the Development and Recognition of Bulgarian Studies Abroad National Scientific Programme (NSP Bulgarian Studies), under Agreement No. D01-205/13.09.2022 signed between the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – Administration, Framework Agreement No. DSD-10/28.10.2022 and Additional Agreement DSD-10-01/14.02.2024 between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Art Studies – BAS.
Poster: Nona Tsekova
Photos: Kamen Tabakov
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