София, каквато беше 1944-1989

Author(s): Svetlin Kiradjiev / Language(s): Bulgarian

This book presents the city of Sofia from the second half of the 20th century. This period is marked not only by the end of World War 2 but by the change of political power in Bulgaria. Through this book, the author intends to give more information about moments of the development of the capital, it's it's influence over material and spiritual culture and he relates all of this to the citizens of Sofia in the reviewed decades. Sofia is very old city, although it's citizens don't realize it, but its modernization and geographical growth begun after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. After 1944 Sofia has shown rapid development and population growth - for 300 000 to over 1 million citizens for a period lasting over 40 years. The houses have been replaced by modern buildings, the city districts have been expanded, the city has turned into a center of industry and slowly, but steady, Sofia has turned for average Balkan city to a capital with European influence.

История византийской Таврики по данным нумизматики

Author(s): Mikhail M. Choref / Language(s): Russian

Semiotics, image and narration. 12-th Early Fall School in Semiotics

Author(s): / Language(s): English

It is by now a tradition that the intellectual efforts of the participants at the Early Fall School in Semiotics (EFSS), organized annually by the Southeast Center for Semiotic Studies (SEECSS) at the New Bulgarian University, result in a collection of selected papers. The present volume in English and French is an outcome of the XIIth edition of the EFSS on "Semiotics, Image and Narration", held in 2006 in the town of Sozopol. It is formally divided into two parts, containing texts by 'guest lecturers' from our partner Universities in Finland, Italy and USA, as well as by 'local participants' - professors and students at the New Bulgarian University. From parchments to paper and from print to the internet, "the story of humankind has been written, and will be written upon its virtual walls" (Albertson, 1997). In the new millennium we are ever more surrounded by bulletin boards and computer networks, from advertisement banners to cyberspace. Nowadays humankind learns by watching rather than by reading or being lectured to. In order to be considered literate in the information age, the new literate person needs to be media literate as well as being proficient in literature and arithmetic.

Носталгични пътеки. Есета

Author(s): Sava Slavchev / Language(s): Bulgarian

"Sava Slavchev's essays are balanced, elegant and erudite, completely devoid of unnecessary categorical timelines. Here's what I wrote to the author as soon as I read his book: "This is your form, the enjoyment of freedom in the way you use it is evident. I wanted the end of the essay in the part on literature and culture to be bolder and accusing, even sinister, to gain a place in the mind of the reader. Luckily there is nothing like that! The cultural man is known in the way he protects the culture, and I am a barbarian and realized myself as such while I was reading. But this awareness does not hurt me, no - it inspires me! " - Peter Delchev

Laboratorium Reportażu. Metoda, praktyka, wizja

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The publication documents the theoretical and conceptual grounds of the Report Laboratory founded by the outstanding reporter Mark Miller, operating at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies, the University of Warsaw. It discusses the status of reporting as a journalistic practice and form as well as a journalistic-literary form, the methodology of work of a reporter and a participant of the creative and research workshops. The book highlights the relationships between journalism and fiction literature, film and theater, and the social sciences and humanities research.

Hudebně-literární slovník. Hudební díla inspirovaná slovesným uměním: Čeští skladatelé. II. díl slovníkové trilogie

Author(s): Vladimír Spousta / Language(s): Czech

The second volume of the Musical-Literary Dictionary deals with the Czech composers’ works which relate to literary art in some way. These relations could have the form of inspiration, but they could also be found in the idea, subject, contents or the text of a literary work. The Dictionary includes works of 891 composers reflecting the literary creation of 2203 writers that inspired them. Its contribution to Czech musical lexicographic literature consists in a new approach to the Czech musical production, in the worldwide context as well. In this senseit is new and unique. The Dictionary is intended for specialists, as well as for the general audience interested in music. Music theoreticians and employees of musical archives will appreciate the extensive list of specialist literature.

Nikt nie chce umierać

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The experienced and junior research workers who are the authors of the texts collected in this publication discuss different suicidal and self-destructive behaviours and reasons for them. They analyse cultural messages in literature, art and entertainment as well as those present in everyday conversations. The thematic and generational range of the research enriches the existing works on suicides and emphasizes the need and importance of interdisciplinary approach to a complex problem of human self-destruction.

Edebiyat, Kültür ve Sanatta Şiddet Temsilleri Konferans Bildiriler Kitabı 2021

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish,English

In his foreword to World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002, Nelson Mandela states that “the twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence”. Now we are nearly at the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, but violence still permeates in our lives at various levels. Various forms of violence occurring at levels of interpersonal, self-directed, collective, state, warfare, child and youth violence, intimate partner violence, environmental violence, and animal violence lay bare the complexity and pervasiveness of the phenomenon, yet it also brings along the necessity to discuss violence from multiple perspectives. Nelson Mandela Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’nün 2002 yılında yayınladığı Şiddet ve Sağlık Hakkında Dünya Raporu’nun önsözünde “yirminci yüzyılın şiddetle mimlenen bir yüzyıl olarak hatırlanacağını” söyler. Bizler, neredeyse yirmi birinci yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinin sonlarını yaşamaktayız, ancak şiddet hayatımıza hala çeşitli düzeylerde nüfuz ediyor. Kişilerarası, öze yöneltilen, kolektif, devlet, savaş, çocuk ve genç şiddeti, yakın eş şiddeti, çevresel şiddet ve hayvan şiddeti gibi çeşitli düzlemlerde vuku bulan şiddet biçimleri olgunun karmaşıklığını ve yaygınlığını açıkça ortaya koymakla beraber şiddet kavramının farklı açılardan tartışılması gerekliliğini de ortaya koymaktadır

Hermeneutica muzicală.

Author(s): Lilia Graneţkaia / Language(s): Romanian

Hermeneutica muzicală este un suport didactic pentru cursul universitar Didactica disciplinelor artistice (ciclu II Masterat), elaborat in cadrul proiectului Ştiinţific: „Modelul de integralizare teoretico-metodologică a domeniilor educaţiei artistice din perspectiva formării inteligenţei spirituale a personalităţii”.

Krystiana Robb-Narbutt: "Cień dotyka mnie. Wiersze i proza"

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Krystiana Robb-Narbutt is one of the most inspiring and at the same time least known Polish-Jewish artists and poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. She created prints, installations and objects, as well as miniature prose and poems. She exhibited them at Kordegarda and Zachęta, among other venues. In March 1968, she was sentenced to prison for participating in protests and distributing leaflets. The subjects of her work were biography and imagination. The book contains all of Robb-Narbutt’s poems and prose deciphered from manuscripts, as well as their critical consideration. They are supplemented by the voices of literary and art critics as well as friends of the artist.

PREȚUL AURULUI / LE PRIX DE L’OR

Author(s): Mihaela Michailov,Eugen Jebeleanu / Language(s): Romanian,French

The Price of Gold is an emotional play-testimony about the coming of age of a child who grew up dreaming of becoming a sports dance champion. A child for whom the bodies of the dancers he watched represented both rigor, discipline, freedom and courage. "The Price of Gold" is a vulnerable confession in which memories from the dance hall, from trainings and camps become a subjective map of detachment from formative moments. Remembrance is a transformative act, which gives fragility the power to move forward.

TOTUL E FOARTE NORMAL

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian

The project "EVERYTHING IS VERY NORMAL - DIALOGUE WITHOUT TABOOS." is organized by the Replika Cultural Association and co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration - AFCN.

Godło Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Author(s): Krzysztof Mordyński / Language(s): Polish

This richly illustrated publication presents the history and symbolism of the emblem of the University of Warsaw. In the first part the author describes the circumstances of establishing the emblem in 1817, the ideological content expressed by the symbols considered at the time, the reasons for choosing the White Eagle as a key element of the emblem, its relations to the University seals and new signs of University identity existing after the abolition of the original emblem. The second part contains a study of an unrecognized sphragistic system of the University. The third part is a catalogue of seal matrices preserved in the University Museum.

Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Stories

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Turkish science fiction dates back to the early years of the twentieth century and serious development has been seen ever since. The writers, who escaped from the darkness of the First World War and took refuge in utopian science fiction, added the excitement created by science and technology to their texts over time. Turkish writers, who followed the science fiction works from the West and made efforts for the development of this genre, produced very qualified works that could compete with their contemporaries at some points. However, due to some historical, social, and economic problems, it was not possible for these works to meet readers in the West. In this anthology, the works of Turkish science fiction writers are brought together for the first time in English. Contemporary science fiction writers have written short stories for this anthology. Hence, the resulting diversity of stories represents a contribution to science fiction literature. An important feature of the anthology is that it includes examples showing how science and technology are perceived philosophically by authors outside of Europe and America. Since literature is an indispensable resource to investigate the equivalent of science fiction, which was born with modernism, in “post-modern” societies. This anthology of Turkish science fiction will be an important Non-Western SF source for both science fiction readers and researchers.

Преходът след 1989 г. в съвременната българска литература. Сборник с докладите от едноименната научна кръгла маса, проведена на 5 ноември 2021 г. в СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“

Author(s): Inna Peleva,Ani Burova,Albena Vacheva,Nikolay Papuchiev,Totka Monova,Boris Minkov,Liudmila Mindova,Milena Kirova,Gergina Krasteva,Kamelia Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian

The collection contains the papers from the academic round table “The Post-1989 Transition in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature,” held at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in November 2021.Three decades after the onset of the Transition, the articles collected here explore its dimensions in the mirror of literature. What images of the post-1989 era does literature create? How do the contemporary works interpret the recent socialist past? Does literature participate in the formation of the perceptions and the memory of the transition? The above issues are also examined in a broader interdisciplinary perspective, in relation to the media, theatre, cinema, and cultural anthropology.

Поглед към котленската хумористична народна песен

Author(s): Sofiya Ruseva / Language(s): Bulgarian

The book "Looking at Kotlen's Humorous Folk Song" is a monographic study that traces the characteristics of Kotlen's humorous folk songs - an understudied category of songs, largely spread only in Kotlensko. The song material, the object of the present study, amounts to a total of 58 songs and is the result of various sources - field materials recorded in the period 2001-2010, audio and video recordings, as well as the collections "From the source song flows /authentic Kotlen folk songs/ ", Part I (1993), "Folk Songs from Thrace" (2013) and "Bulgarians - 672 Unpublished Folk Songs from the Kosta Kolev Archive" (2018). The subject of research in the main part of the exhibition are the peculiarities of humorous chants in relation to their functional, metrorhythmic, poetic, form-forming, structural and ladomelodic specificities. The goal is an attempt to clarify the overall appearance of the chants and, if possible, to bring out common features characteristic of humorous song samples. To achieve the objectives of the study, the following research methods were used: observation, interview, description, analysis, synthesis and comparison.

Uroczystości, stroje i insygnia w ceremoniale Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 1816–1939

Author(s): Adam Tyszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

The book is devoted to the customs of the University of Warsaw from its establishment in 1816 until the 20th century. It is the first monograph of this type concerning celebrations and ceremonial paraphernalia of the University. The author shows the role that academic rites played in many spheres of functioning of the University. He supplements his work with reproductions of archival photographs and documents, and numerous colour illustrations presenting the rich world of the university ceremonial. The starting point for the author’s considerations were the traditions of European research centres, such as Bologna, Paris, London and Berlin, as well as the oldest Polish universities in Cracow, Vilnius and Lviv.

The Emblem of the University of Warsaw. The History of the Emblem on the University's Seals in the Collections of the UW Museum

Author(s): Krzysztof Mordyński / Language(s): English

This richly illustrated publication in English presents the history and symbolism of the emblem of the University of Warsaw. In the first part the author describes the circumstances of establishing the emblem in 1817, the ideological content expressed by the symbols considered at the time, the reasons for choosing the White Eagle as a key element of the emblem, its relations to the University seals and new signs of University identity existing after the abolition of the original emblem. The second part contains a study of an unrecognized sphragistic system of the University. The third part is a catalogue of seal matrices preserved in the University Museum.

Uniwersytet Warszawski. Kampus historyczny i jego dzieje

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek,Jerzy Pieszczurykow,Adam Tyszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

The publication is the first comprehensive study of history and historical architecture of Warsaw University buildings located within Krakowskie Przedmieście and Oboźna Streets and the Visitationist Church adjacent to them. This unique urban development was created in the place of the former residence of the Vasa royal dynasty (the 17th century), expanded and transformed into the Warsaw Corps of Cadets (2nd half of the 18th century), and finally into the university campus (the 19th century).The authors talk about the complex history of the Warsaw Alma Mater in several richly illustrated chapters devoted to historic buildings, focusing not only on architecture, but also on the figures of professors and alumni of the University – eminent representatives of Polish science and culture.

Текст и изображение. Т.1. Изображението в текста. Текстът в изображението

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

On September 12, 2023, the First Interdisciplinary Anniversary Conference “Image in the Text, Text in the Image” opened in the Aula of the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov”. Its organizers are: the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov”, the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for the Study of Arts at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the New Bulgarian University. This conference was dedicated to three anniversaries: the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov”, the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute for the Study of Arts at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The initiative for conducting a large-scale and ongoing interdisciplinary inter-institutional project of scientific conferences under the title “Text and Image” belongs to the Department of World Culture.