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SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN CENTER FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES

Director: Assoc. Prof. Kristian Bankov, Ph.D.
Building 1, room 110, tel.: +359 2 8110 171
 
The idea of establishment of South-East European Center for Semiotic Studies was originated at a conference of the International Association of Semiotic Studies and at the International Congress of the Balkan Association of Semiotic Societies by Prof. Roland Pozner (at that time Chair of the International Association of Semiotic Studies) and was expressed in his letter to the Chair of the Balkan Association Prof. Bogdan Bogdanov. The final decision on the establishment of the Center was discussed and adopted in May 1998 at a meeting of the Balkan Association.
The aims of the Center are:
  • to develop the educational and theoretical branches of Semiotics
  • to consolidate the Semiotics’ methodological approaches in the sphere of education and research
  • to raise the education in Semiotics to a modern level
  • to stimulate and develop multi- and interdisciplinary studies with implementation in the semiotic approach towards cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media, etc.
  • to maintain high academic level of student training
  • to explore opportunities for international activities of the students in Semiotics – research work, participation in summer schools, conferences, seminars, etc.
 
The main international event of the Center is the annual International Early Fall School of Semiotics. Since 2006 the team at the Center for Semiotics will initiate the development and promotion of a Spring School of Semiotics. The first School will take place in May 2006 at NBU with the participation of guest-lecturers from the country and abroad.

The Center has concluded bilateral agreements for exchange of students and teachers within the framework of the Socrates/Erasmus program with ten universities and maintains contacts with the Aristotle University – Thessalonica, Greece, the University of Helsinki, Finland, the University of Bloomington and the University “Saint Thomas” in Huston, USA.

The programs, developed by the South-East European Center for Semiotic Studies, are: bachelor program “Language and Literature” (jointly with department “New Bulgarian Studies”); master programs "Advertising and Lifestyles", “Semiotics, Linguistics, Communication”, “Gender Studies”, “Hebrew Studies”; doctoral program “Semiotics”.