The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the French Institute in Sofia organize an international conference Impact et réception de la culture française dans les Balkans (XIXe – XXe siècles) / French culture in the Balkans (19th - 20th centuries) - interrelations and reception. The event will be held on October 6 and 7, 2022 in Slaveykov Hall, French Institute in Bulgaria (Slaveykov Square No. 3, Sofia 1000) and at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Tracology (Moskovska Street No. 45, Sofia 1000).
The programme is organized aroung the following main topics:
- Ottoman Reforms and French Diplomacy in the Balkans: World War I and the establishment of the French Institute in Sofia (1922)
- Selected pages of diplomatic and cultural history
- Diplomatic missions and francophone education
- Memoirs, memories
- The adventures of French literature in Bulgaria