The recent COVID-19 pandemic did not suffocate public celebrations, it only proved their importance to local communities to overcome crisis. With this in mind, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is organizing the international conference „Local Festivals: Resources, Traditions, Changes”. The event is scheduled to take place on June 5-7 2023 in Varna on the Black Sea coast.
A call for papers is open to scholars, university professors and experts from diverse disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities to present their research on the topic. The format of the conference will be hybrid: online and in person, the working languages are English and Bulgarian. The deadline to send abstracts is 2nd of March and the complete texts are due by 18 May 2023. Further details can be found here (scroll down for English).