Conferences in Bulgaria

October 8-10, 2008, International conference "Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religions, and Cultures", Sofia, at the Institute of Folklore Studies, Chair: Ekaterina Anastasova.
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/2008/bulgar/pics.

30 presentations, incl:

from Estonia:

• Karin Maria Rooleid "A few Aspects of making Bibliographical Indexes in Three Languages (On the Basis of the Present Model for International Bibliography of Ethnology)";
• Triinu Ojamaa - "Eurovision Song Contest in Estonian media: A case Study On Minorities and Majorities"
• Mare Kõiva - "Incantations. Time and Space";
• Marju Torp-Kõivupuu - "Cross-trees in Estonian Landscape";
• Andres Kuperjanov - "Astral Myths in Estonia."

From Bulgarian side:

• Stanoi Stanoev - "Post-socialist Transitions and Scientific paradigms;
• Mila Santova - "Towns, Republics: about some Forms of Reflection in Town milieu. On the material from Bulgaria and Lithuania."
• Vanya Mateeva - "The Blinds - Myths, Cultural Inheritance, Socialisation";
• Ruzha Nejkova - "Together Again - after Eighty Years (On the materials of the Nestinarstvo/Anastenaria);
• Ekaterina Anastasova "The Russian Old Believers in United Europe (On Materials from the balkan and the Baltic Region);
• Vesselina Koleva - "Time measuring and calendars in the Central Rhodopi Mountains",
• Nikolai Sivkov - "Astrosemnatic Markers on the Ritual Bread (On the material from middle Western Bulgaria).