https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619273 Salih Borovin New Bulgarian University [sborovin@nbu.bg] Memories in the Present: The Post-Memory of Assimilationist Policies Toward Muslims in Bulgaria (1960s–1970s) Abstract: This article explores how memories of the assimilationist policies targeting Muslim communities in Bulgaria during the 1960s and 1970s are transmitted across generations. Drawing on the concept of “post-memory,” the research examines the…
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Yelis Erolova
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619147 Yelis Erolova Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEFSEM – BAS) [yeliserolova@gmail.com], ORCID: 0000-0002-3578-9852 The Spontaneous and Forced Assimilation of the Turkish Women in Urban and Rural Environment during the Socialist Period in Bulgaria (Examples from the Svishtov Region) Abstract: During the totalitarian communist regime (1944–1989) in…
Georgeta Nazаrska
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619112 Georgeta Nazаrska University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia [g.nazarska@unibit.bg], ORCID: 0000-0002-6448-3692 Muslim Women under the ‘Care’ of the State Women’s Organizations in Bulgaria (1950s‒1980s) Abstract: The article examines the policies towards ethno-religious communities led by the totalitarian state in communist Bulgaria in the 1950s-1980s. Specifically, the work of the state women’s organizations…
Tamila Davitadze, Nana Mazmishvili
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619077 Tamila Davitadze Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia [tamila.davitadze@bsu.edu.ge] Nana Mazmishvili Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia [nana.mazmishvili@bsu.edu.ge] Religion and Women in Adjara Abstract: The attitude of Islam towards women’s issues is not at all uniform. Two tendencies can be observed in it: the first, reactionary or conservative, which…
Ketevan Svanidze, Shorena Bolkvadze
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619056 Ketevan Svanidze Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia [ketevan.svanidze@bsu.edu.ge] Shorena Bolkvadze Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia [shorena.bolkvadze@gmail.com] Woman and Postcolonial Trauma Abstract: This article explores contemporary Georgian memoir literature as a powerful medium for representing postcolonial trauma through women’s perspectives. Focusing on works from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it examines how personal…
Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Claudia-Florentina Dobre, Vasile Zotic
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15629138 Oana-Ramona Ilovan Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania [oana.ilovan@ubbcluj.ro]; ORCID: 0000-0003-2075-1808 Claudia-Florentina Dobre Institute of History, Bucharest, Romania [cfdobre@gmail.com]; ORCID: 0000-0001-6778-3466 Vasile Zotic Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania [vasile.zotic@ubbcluj.ro]; ORCID: 0000-0002-4489-0637 The Traumascapes of Bărăgan and Siberia: Identity, Place Attachment and Resilience in the Deportees’ Life Stories Abstract: In this article, we examine the relationship between…
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South-West University, Bulgaria, e-mail: peter_acad@yahoo.com Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petar Vodenicharov holds a PhD in General and Comparative Linguistics, with a dissertation titled “The Rhythmic Organization of the Gotse Delchev Dialect” (1994). He began his academic career as an assistant professor (1985), became a senior assistant (1990), and was promoted to associate professor (2001) at South-West…