Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Lecture by Veneta Ivanova (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences) with the topic "Occult Communism: Culture, Science and Spirituality in Late Socialist Bulgaria"

Lecture Series 2022-2023

On Wednesday 10th of May 2023, 8.30 pm, at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH (Melissinou and Nikiforou Foka 130, Rethymno), Veneta Ivanova will speak with the topic of " Occult Communism: Culture, Science and Spirituality in Late Socialist Bulgaria".

Veneta Ivanova is a Research Fellow at the “Unit for Balkan, Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies” of the Research Centre for Modern History at Panteion University for Social and Political Sciences, Athens. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of William & Mary (2018–2019) and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2017–2018). She is a historian of Eastern and Southeastern Europe who obtained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research centers on the interplay between socialism, occultism, religion, science, and utopia in twentieth-century Europe. Together with Augusta Dimou and Theodora Dragostinova, she is the co-editor of collective volume Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region (2023, De Gruyter Oldenbourg).

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Lecture by Dr Lora Gerd, Foreign correspondent of the CéSoR (Centre d' études en sciences sociales et religieux) at EHESS, Paris, with the topic of “Russian support for the church institutions of Greece: tradition, ideology and politics in the 19th century”

ERCLecture Series 2022-2023

Lecture by Dr Lora Gerd, Foreign correspondent of the CéSoR (Centre d' études en sciences sociales et religieux) at EHESS, Paris, with the topic of “Russian support for the church institutions of Greece: tradition, ideology and politics in the 19th century”

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