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Kamelia PetkovaInstitute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences[kamelia.petkova@gmail.com] ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3108-3887 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078031 VOICES FROM THE GHETTO: STORIES OF LONELINESS, STIGMA, AND BELONGING IN SIX BULGARIAN CITIES Abstract: This paper examines experiences of loneliness, stigma, and belonging among residents of Roma ghettoized neighborhoods in six Bulgarian cities – Lom, Dobrich, Ruse, Asenovgrad, Kyustendil, and…

Tamila DavitadzeBatumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia[tamila.davitadze@bsu.edu.ge]ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3486-1696Nana MazmishviliBatumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia[nana.mazmishvili@bsu.edu.ge]ORCID ID: 0009-0000-3233-2702 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078007 PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY IN A TOTALITARIAN ENVIRONMENT Abstract: Dystopian novels represent a hyperbole of evil and violence through the psychological portrait of humanity. Authors, while developing the principle of the supremacy of free…

Marija MartinovićPhilosophy and Slavic Studies at Sorbonne University (Paris)CEFRES, UMIFRE 13, UAR 3138 CNRS-MEAE[marija.sorbonne@yahoo.com], ORCID ID: 0009-0007-0389-7617 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18077962 PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIAL BOND IN TITO’S YUGOSLAVIA: ŽIŽEK’S CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGICAL UNITY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF AGAPÈ Abstract: This article written as a philosophical dissertation examines the concept of social bond as a central question…

George GotsiridzeIakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (Georgia)Teaching-Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Humanities (Georgia)[giagotsiridze67@gmail.com], ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8151-2232 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18077931 PAPERS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE STRENGTHENING THE NATIONAL IDENTITY. IN THE ARCHIVES OF GEORGIAN PUBLIC FIGURES Abstract: The article examines the struggle for the consolidation of national identity reflected in the archives of outstanding Georgian public figures of…

Claudia-Florentina Dobre“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest (Romania)[cfdobre@gmail.com], ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6778-3466 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18077879 HEGEMONIC OR MARGINAL PERSPECTIVE!? THE MANY SHADES OF NOSTALGIA IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA Abstract: In Romania, communism was declared, on December 18, 2006, an ‘illegitimate and criminal regime’. From this moment on, the main paradigm of remembering communism in the public space was anticommunism….

Vlad Mitric-CiupeCenter for Historical and Architectural Studies, Bucharest (Romania)[vlad.mitric@adproiect.ro], ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4011-9041 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18127673 PROCEDURALIZING EVIL, PROCEDURALIZING DIGNITY: MEMORY, TRAUMA, AND POST-CONFLICT ETHICS IN A SHARED BIOGRAPHY Abstract: This article analyzes how large-scale violence in Central and Eastern Europe becomes administratively thinkable – and how dignity is later re-instituted – through a shared biography that fuses…

Michaela WolfUniversity of Graz, Austria[michaela.wolf@uni-graz.at] Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18077806 LEBENSSPUREN – TRACES OF LIFE Abstract: The article that follows is Michaela Wolf’s introduction to the volume Visions of Historical Anthropology in Southeastern Europe. Karl Kaser – Continuing the Discussion,[1] a collection she edited as a way of carrying forward Karl Kaser’s scholarly vision and research approaches. Our sincere…

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116588 Emil Antonov, PhD candidate Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Music Therapy [kanas_iuvigi@abv.bg] Traditional Medicinal Rituals from Mexico Coming to Bulgaria: The Trip of Huichol People Abstract: This paper presents in detail the visits of several Mexican Huichol (Wixárika) shamans and…

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116565 Sławomir Łotysz, PhD Professor, Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences [s.lotysz@gmail.com], ORCID: 0000-0003-4426-6401 The Fear of AIDS in Late Socialist Poland[1] Abstract: The emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s, a new deadly disease that attacked the human immune system, caused panic around the world. The fear of…

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17116539 Judit Sándor, PhD Full Professor, Central European University, Vienna – Austria [sandorj@ceu.edu], ORCID: 0000-0003-0134-4414 Mária Éva Földes, PhD Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam – the Netherlands, [foldes@eshpm.eur.nl], [foldese@ceu.edu], ORCID: 0009-0001-9181-1858 Medicalization of Death and Dying in Post-War Hungary and the Netherlands. Taboo and Transparency in Legal Thinking…