THE FOURTH INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION “MIRABILIA: EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS” WAS HELD
The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference with International Participation “MIRABILIA: EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS” was held on 10 and 11 September 2024 at the Institute of Art Studies, 1504 Sofia, 21 Krakra Str., in partnership with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum; the Institute for Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology “Prof. Alexander Fol”; and the Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The focus was on research from different points of view, methodology and different scientific tools of the relationship mirabilia – emotions, feelings, and passions, reflected in the concept of the wonderful. The cultural categories “miracles” and “myths” with an emphasis on their spatiotemporal parameters were interpreted in their dynamic relationships and functional characteristics concerning areas such as religion and mythology, cinema and theatre, literature and language, and politics during different historical periods.
Thirty-five scholars from authoritative scientific units and universities in the country and abroad took part: the Institute of Art Studies, the Institute of History Research, the Institute of History Research, the Institute for Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology “Prof. Alexander Fol” at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Department of Classical Philology at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, the Department of Theory and History of Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies and New Bulgarian University, foreign scholars from Greece, Canada, Ukraine, and China. Online participation in the conference was provided.
Three interdisciplinary conferences were held in 2014, 2018 and 2021, respectively titled Mirabilia: Miracles and Monsters; Mirabilia: Wonderful and Magical; and Mirabilia: Times, Spaces, Myths. The purpose of the scientific topic Mirabilia was to provoke and encourage academic debate on a not-very-familiar cultural landscape and to find in it a wide range of meanings and key answers to questions that have not been asked before. This conference marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of the MIRABILIA project in 2014.
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