The international monograph was developed in a research project entitled "Study of the attitudes to entrepreneurial activity of women and young people and their training needs". It is intended for a wide range of readers wishing to become acquainted with the issues of youth and women entrepreneurship.
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The archives took central role in social memory. The researcher who is interested in the political, social and cultural past of women and minorities on the Balkans finds information quite by chance working with different archive fonds of dominated by males and majority state institutions. The existence of such groups is hidden: in the inventory lists they miss because the inventories reflect the activities of the institutions not the subjects. This is the reason the information about women and minorities to be mostly about them not the one coming from them. Most often the proscribed information combines data of different official sources: police, public health, educational, political and cultural institutions. We aim at making visible the past of women and minorities on the Balkans, at systemizing and comparing the fragmentized information about them in the existing institutional and private archive fonds.
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Published by International Academic Seminar for Balkanistic Researches and Specialization at the South-Western University "Neophite Rilsky", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Женски гласове в преводната художествена литература до Втората световна война. Жената като автор, преводач, критик, персонаж
The collection contains articles from the round table dedicated to the women’s writing issues which took place at the end of 2015 at Southwest University “Neofit Rilski”, Bulgaria. The papers are reviewing the woman in different creative roles – as an author, translator, critic, character. They analyze the variability of the perceptions towards women’s writing in the course of different historical periods. In the texts stand out various perspectives of the woman as an object of literature; a righteous virgin/wife, an innocent martyr or an audacious emancipator.
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The conference proceedings contain materials from a conference based on a project titled "Impact of the migration processes on the geopolitics, the economics and the public sphere", held on October 12, 2016 at the Conference Center of "Bachinovo" of SWU "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad 2016. The conference was implemented by a research team from the Faculty of Economics at SWU "N. Rilski "- Blagoevgrad".
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The Digital sources of information in their traditional meaning – radios, televisions, press and new medias (online platforms, websites, digital blogs etc.) in the spatial trajectory of internet, receive a total comprehensiveness and phenomenal effective power at present days. They influence on people’s understanding and behavior, people’s socialization and emotions, their needs and interests. Work on fundamental changes in all social spheres, institutions, communities and organizational structures, in relations within and between them. At the same time digital sources of information reorganize the existing communication spaces, „revolutionize” long-lived models of culture and practices, advantaging the foundation of new socio-cultural conceptions. They cause modern professions and spheres, cross-media realities. This collective monograph is dedicated to topical subject. It includes academicians from three continents with a significant presence of their respective countries – Asia, Africa and Europe. From Bulgaria participate well-known scientist, as well as young researchers from four universities: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, The University of National and World economy, New Bulgarian University, South West University “Nеeofit Rilski” and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Practically all the dimensions and fundamental reflexion of digital sources of information are presented starting from the changes of interpersonal, group and mass communication, through changes of labour, culture, education, politics, health and the emergence of a new sections and professional options/choices. These issues are especially innovative, because in everyday activities individuals are placed under conditions of coherence with others that is achieved with the mediation of digital sources, developing permanently and comprehensively. Every current events in the group of professional community and organization is easy, when it is stimulated from the new media. However, at the same time digitization require knowledge and use of different searching tools, finding and extracting information, as well as its interpretation and foundation of a new meaning. People become founders of a new meaning and this as a matter of a principle is the unique and the creative that change human form into active social subject. Hopefully this collective monograph to be not only scientific reflexion of the postmodern transformation, but also a useful reading mater for students of all educational levels, as well as young researchers.
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The Journal “Linguistic World” (“Orbis linguarum”) is a periodical of the Philology Faculty of the South-Western University “Neophyte Rilsky” (SWU) which gains a wide audience. Fields of research: Linguistics, Methodology of Teaching, Comparative Studies, Linguistic-Cultural Studies, Literature Criticism, Book Reviews. By its regular editions and the wide range of Philology research the Journal gradually attracted many scholars and readers. In the Editing Board prominent scientists from Germany, USA, China, Serbia, Russia, Bulgaria and Albania were included. Researchers not only from the SWU but from other Bulgarian Universities contribute for the Journal. The “Linguistic World” provides a forum for discussions of the achievements of young researchers; the best of the student presentations on the National Student Conference which is held on 11th of May - the celebration day of the Saints Cyril and Metodij – are published. Prominent foreign researchers regularly publish in the Journal. The Editing Board considers proposals for reviewing scientific books. Editors Editorial Board Prof. David Ingram (USA), prof. Sergej Birjukov. (Germany), prof Vasilka Radeva (Bulgaria), porf. Liu Dzybaj (China), prof. Dimityr Belo (Albania), doc. Vanja Stanishich (Srbia), prof. Grigorij Venediktov (Russia) Editors prof. Ilieva, prof. Pencheva, Prof. C. Rakyovsky, prof. Stoilov, prof. Trendafilov, prof. Kostova- Panayotova, Chief Editor Prof. Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova
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Economics & Management is a double-blind referred academic journal. It is intended to extend the scientific knowledge in the fields of Economics and Scientific Management. The journal focuses on empirically oriented research papers but does not exclude high-quality review articles, methodological and theoretical contributions from all fields of contemporary economics. The journal acclaims papers on wide ranges of countries or business organizations, as well as topics relevant outside a single country.
The journal has been published since 2005. Initially published as a school magazine, the journal obtained national popularity soon after its first issues. For last few years the journal has sustainably raised its attractiveness for researchers from all Balkan countries, Russia and Germany.
Now, the journal is issued two times a year and publishes articles in English and Bulgarian language.
Сборник в чест на 80-годишнината на проф. д-р Иван Кочев
Conference Proceedings “Linguistics: History, Challenges, Perspectives” (2015) are dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Prof. Dr. Ivan Kochev. The papers which are part of the Proceedings are close to Prof. Kochev’s diverse research interests. There are several sections – the first contains the plenary reports of Prof. Emilia Pernishka; Prof. Lilia Ilieva (1774), Prof. Antony Stoilov and Prof. Anna Choleva-Dimitrova. Their papers cover different linguistic topics, especially related to South-Slavic and Balkan linguistics. The second section is named “Dialectology. History of language. Word Formation” and it comprises 13 papers written by 15 researchers. The next section is called “Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics. Foreign Languages” and contains 13 papers as well. Authors are from different countries and their work includes various languages. The forth part of the Proceedings “Lexicology and Lexicography of Bulgarian language” incorporates papers of 10 researchers from Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Albania, dealing with some problems of modern and historical lexicology/ lexicography in Slavic and Balkan context. The fifth section, named “Stylistics and Pragmatics. Language and Communication”, explores the so-called communicative approaches and methods to languages. It includes 10 papers from 13 Bulgarian and foreign linguists. The next part “Grammar of Contemporary Bulgarian Language” includes texts devoted to Bulgarian morphology and syntax. The last section is called “Interactive Teaching Methods” and it concerns some pedagogical issues.
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The academic forum “Literature of the Recent Past (1944-1989)”, organized by the Faculty of Philology at the South West University, combined the efforts of literary theorists of several generations to reflect on that part of Bulgaria’s recent past which has already turned into history. However, this history has not been completed yet in a comprehensive and objective manner. The aim of the forum was to create the proper discourse in which the history of literary theory writing will be attributed a multifaceted pluralistic ring. The project was a part of the attempt to reveal the Bulgarian literary history not only from the point of view “the history of generals”, but from the perspective of cultural identity manifestations on a national scale.
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International Politics Journal is an academic, peer-reviewed and open access edition of the Faculty of Law and History of the South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad. It was created by Prof. Milan Milanov, PhD in 2004, initially published in paper form, and from 2013 onwards it has been issued electronically as well.
Currently, International Politics Journal follows a policy of publishing two editions per annum.
The journal has been developed as a national, even cross-border scientific forum, addressing global and regional issues that aim at the permanent expansion of scientific knowledge in the field of political and legal science. The journal’s purpose is to publish high-quality scientific articles combining empirical and theoretical research, covering International Law (Public and Private), Politics, Administration, European Union Law, International Relations, European Integration, Human Rights and Security.
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The academic forum “Literature of the Recent Past (1944-1989)”, organized by the Faculty of Philology at the South West University, combined the efforts of literary theorists of several generations to reflect on that part of Bulgaria’s recent past which has already turned into history. However, this history has not been completed yet in a comprehensive and objective manner. The aim of the forum was to create the proper discourse in which the history of literary theory writing will be attributed a multifaceted pluralistic ring. The project was a part of the attempt to reveal the Bulgarian literary history not only from the point of view “the history of generals”, but from the perspective of cultural identity manifestations on a national scale.
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The proceedings include MA and PhD students’ research on philological problems presented during the annual academic conference at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”. The submissions were reviewed by the conference board. A national academic committee – specialists in linguistics, literature and translation, selected the best presentations. The published works were double-blind reviewed
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The collection contains materials from the Seminar on the "Initial Researches in Economic History and History of the Socio-Economic Sphere in Southwestern Bulgaria", held on October 15, 2014 in University center "Bachinovo" of South-West University.
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“Law, Politics, Administration” Journal is issued by the Department of “Public Law” of the Law and History Faculty of the South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. It is a periodical edition that is released 4 times a year publishing current research works.
It is an open access journal.
Articles in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish and Russian languages could be submitted.
The publication in the journal is based on two independent blind reviews of any proposed material.
Scholars and practitioners from Bulgaria and abroad having an interest in contemporary law, politics and administration could publish their results in the journal.
The journal also publishes book reviews, information on scientific events, celebrations and so on.
The journal provides a platform for PhD students and students from the faculty and university to offer the scientific audience their studies on current issues from their subject areas.
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“Entrepreneurship” is a scientific journal of the Faculty of Economics at SWU "Neofit Rilski" – Blagoevgrad. It publishes articles on current problems of economics, management and entrepreneurship at global, regional and local level. The journal have a frequency of 2 issues per year. Publications in the scientific journals cover scientific areas corresponding to the scientific and educational issues and profiling majors in the Faculty of Economics – management, marketing, finance, accounting and control, socio- cultural activities, tourism, social policy, infrastructure, entrepreneurship and others.
The “Entrepreneurship” journal is an environment to meet the opinions and estimates of scientists, researchers and experts from academia and business life. The Editorial Boards seeks to maintain a high level of scientific and applied research, while giving the opportunity not only to established and reputable Bulgarian and foreign scholars, but also young researcher and graduate students to publish their ideas. Experts from business practice can also share their views. We believe that the responsible attitude of the authors in the journals will help to meet the modern criteria and requirements.
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The electronic bilingual international journal Postmodernism Problems is an open access journal- a flagship of the Laboratory for Sociological Research and the International academic seminar "Media and Education" at the South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad - Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy.
It publishes academic research on our modern society, also known as society of knowledge, postmodern society, postinformation society or mediatized society.
The ambition of the Journal Editorial Board is to be a permanent analytical focus of significant changes and transformations that accompany all social spheres – science, education, culture, art, politics, media and communications, low, religion, civil sphere, family, etc.
Decisions about publishing in the PMP Journal are based on the recommendations of two independent reviews by reviewers who have high competence in any proposed manuscrpt.
Scholars and practitioners interested in the contemporary problems of society could publish their results in the PMP Journal. They can also publish book reviews, information about academic events and celebrations, science futuristic materials and so on.
The PMP Journal also includes MA and PhD students' materials.
This book is about the Russian poetic avant-garde, about the avant-garde poetry that emerged on the brink of two centuries - the 19th and the 20th, and about the avant-garde trends penetrating the 20th century culture with their diverse forms of presence. Within this culture precisely the avant-garde became a curious response to the crisis in art. The road travelled by the avant-garde during the entire twentieth century can be divided into generally two periods. The first is most often called classical or historical period, which loudly proclaims itself among the varieties of futurism. During the period of the 50s -80s an illustrious and strong “other” art became established, which perceived itself not as a “contraculture”, but as “art without treachery”, if we apply V Nekrassov's formula. In its activity the avant-garde art struggles with the exemplariness of literary creation, with being stagnated into relic forms, because the museum is the graveyard of literature, to cite the famous thought from the modernist era. In the violation of rules the avant-garde creators find a productive artistic approach, which represents part of a new convention, a somewhat alternative classic. Avant-garde art resists flicking through it. Effort is needed so that the individual does not sink into complacence. Pre-modeling the world to the paroxyc visions of the grotesque, weird, dreadful, the poetic works in the field of avant-garde reflect the horror and distress of the person, located at an eternal border, but also his will to resist evil. The self accomplishment of the creator is seen as an attempt to cross the borders, an attempt to surpass the limited framework of human existence.
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In 2016 we have celebrated two significant events: a Silver jubilee to mark the 25th year of the establishment of the Faculty of Philological Studies and the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the South West University in Blagoevgrad. Both events are loaded not only with the symbols of the anniversaries but also with the hard work, perseverance, commitment and emotions of a few generations of scholars and researchers, who devoted their time and work to the elevation of the philological and university knowledge in South-west Bulgaria to the highest ranks in the country. The Collection of articles, offered to the readers’ attention, has been named after the National conference with international participation: “The World is the Word and the Word is the World” since our admiration for the words is in the base of our love to philological knowledge. It comprises most of the conference papers, presented in the event, organised as part of the celebrations of the two anniversaries – of the Faculty of Philological Studies and of the South-West University in Blagoevgrad. The event evoked significant interest, which is a clear sign for the fact that philology and our faculty have a great number of loyal friends not only in our country but also abroad. Our conference attracted more than a hundred philologists from over ten countries – Norway, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Poland, Serbia, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, certainly, Bulgaria. Articles by prominent scholars from the major Bulgarian universities – SU ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, PU ‘ Paisii Hilendarski’, BU ‘ Prof. Dr Asen Zlanatarov’ as well as a number of research institutions such as the Bulgarian Language Institute ‘Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin’, the Literature Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies and the Ethnography Museum of BAS, the Institute of Solid-state Physics ‘ Acad. Georgi Nadvakov’ of BAS, the Cyril-Methodius Research Centre of BAS, etc – stand out among the contributions to the Collection. Research papers were presented by scholars from a number of European centres of learning: the University of Oslo, Norway; the University of Eastern Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Macedonia University in Thessaloniki, Greece; Trnava University in Bratislava, Slovakia; Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic, etc. The multiple contributions present a large diversity of research topics coming from nearly all spheres of philological knowledge – from linguistics and the social nature of language, through philosophy, semiotics and the pragmatics of language to the problems of Bulgarian and European literature and literary theory, of folklore, ethnology, ethnography and the preserving of cultural heritage. The order of the papers, published in the proceedings, follows the conference programme so the reader will be able to choose from the following seven topical areas: 1. Linguistics: synchronic and diachronic research; 2. Language and culture. Language and subculture; 3. Sociolinguistics, folkloristics and ethnology; 4. Modern Bulgarian and world literature; 5. Media, communications and manipulation; 6. Translation and interpretation: theory and practice; 7. Methodology and didactics. One of the main purposes of such publications is the “meeting” and exchange of a multitude of scholarly ideas, as well as ideas of how we as philologists and humanity scholars can continue our work in a world set on the fast track and full of challenges, where the pragmatism of thought would often put established models on trial. The proceedings are printed on 537 pages and each text is accompanied by an annotation in English with keywords, for easier orientation in the topic area, and author’s E-mail contacts. Foreign language texts are printed in the original so that their meaning and ideas would not be lost in translation. The editors and authors of the conference proceedings, entitled “The World is the Word and the Word is the World”, hope that the present publication is compatible with modern philological research, matches the pragmatic ideas for the development of philology as a science, as well as satisfies the insatiable thirst for knowledge and explanation of philological issues, phenomena and facts from the world around us.
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