The International Elias Canetti Society, in cooperation with the Ruse University, (European Studies Department), hosted the national conference 'Society of Knowledge and Civil Society in Bulgaria'. The major goal was to discuss the public development of the Bulgarian state through the prism of two leading concepts: civil society as a corrective and regulator of the More...
‘Between faith and compromise‘ from Dr. Momchil Metodiev was presented in May. The study is about the relationship between the state and the church. Above others, main sources were the archive of the Church issues committee as well as the First department of the communist State Security, documents of the Holy Synod until the More...
Together with artists of the group ‘36 Monkeys‘ from Sofia, eight young artists from Romania and Bulgaria made their first steps in the genre of drama. Stefan Peca from Romania and Jan Deker from Germany supported the drama-workshop. The results from the workshop were performed in public – the young artists presented their texts More...
"The town by the river: The town of the future " was the titel of the seminar, to which the Elias Canetti Society invited, in compliance with the European Union Conference for the Danube Strategy. The seminar was attended by students from different schools and was was headed by Martin Ivanov and Yavor Sedyankov.
For all skateboard fans from Ruse and the region the event of the year: Skater Festival „Collision Course” took place on the 2nd and the 3rd of May for the fourth time in Ruse. Read more...
The Literary Spring Parlour 2010 was opened on the 16th of April as a part of the HALMA-Network meeting. The series of literary events was opened with a literary reading with the Bulgarian writer Kristin Dimitrova. Read more...
In cooperation with Caritas-Ruse a discussion on poverty was organized in April. ‘Zero poverty: act now!‘ is a campaign of Caritas Europe which aimes to end the scandal of poverty.
High-ranking guest: Gerhard Reiweger, ambassador of Austria, attended in the anniversary celebration of the Austrian library in Russe. Professor Penka Angelova, chairman of the International Elias Canetti Society, presented the bearer of the Canetti-Prize Ivayla Aleksandrova. She read some parts of her documentary novel "Hot Red". The Austrian library was opened on the 100th anniversary More...
Antonya Duende, an artist from Germany showed her paintigs within the Spring Literature Days and the HALMA project. The series of pictures is based on the so called Bashka Plate, which was written around year 1100 with texts in the Croatian Glagolic alphabet (the so called angular Glagolic alphabet).
On the 1st of December 2009, the Lisbon treaty came into power. The Elias Canetti Society hosted a discussion on this topic. The participants tried to find answers of the following questions: Why was a new treaty necessary? Will the European Union become more democratic and will it meet the expectations of the European citizens More...
