Under the title Virtual Premieres, we publish recordings of book presentations organised within the framework of the Auditorium FF initiative.
The first presentation of a book was dedicated to the study by Galina Valcheva-Dimitrova, PhD’s monograph Models of Remembering Childhood (Bulgarian Prose between the 1920s and the 1980s). Nadezhda Stoyanova, PhD and Vladimir Ignatov, PhD talked about the text.
More information about the premiere and about Galina Valcheva-Dimitrova, PhD can be found in the news about the event.
A recording is available below:
The second premiere was that of Alexander Hristov’s book of poetry To the First Shadow (2021). Prof. Dimitar Mihaylov, PhD talked about the book. The host of the event was Nikolay Genov. More information about the presentation can be found in the news.
A recording is available below:
A conversation about Teodora Lalova’s debut poetry book In Such Afternoons (Ars and Scribens Publishing) in Auditorium FF.
Within the framework of the Auditorium FF initiative, the Philological Forum presented the collections Knowledge and Transhumanitarian R/Evolution and Science Fiction and the Future. These were published under the project Pragmatism and Imagination: Futuristic Directions in Bulgarian Science Fiction in the 20th and 21st Centuries funded by the Scientific Research Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science (KP-06-M30/2 of 13 December 2018) and run by the Institute for Literature with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
On 27 October 2021, a meeting was held to discuss Konstantin Konstantinov’s book ‘Bird over Fires’ (2nd edition, Koralov & Co. Publishing, 2020). More than seven decades after the writer’s notebook detailing the tragic 1944 appeared, Prof. Antoaneta Alipieva, Prof. Nikolay Chernokozhev and the compiler – Dr. Vladimir Ignatov – outlined the place of this work in K. Konstantinov’s creative journey, its messages and the reasons why it is still relevant today. The event was hosted by Daniela Konakchiyska, philologist, student and teacher. Students from the 9th French Language School Alphonse de Lamartine in Sofia and guests took part in the event.
On 18 January 2023, the New Conference Hall of Sofia University ‘St Kilment Ohridski’ hosted a presentation of Maria Ruseva, PhD’s book The Poetics of the Road in Bulgarian Literature of the 1920s and 1930s. Prof. Tatyana Ichevska, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Boyko Penchev, PhD and Senior Asst. Prof. Nadezhda Stoyanova, PhD took part. The host of the event was Senior Asst. Prof. Kristiyan Yanev, PhD.