Conference marks 130 years of liberation movement of Macedonian and Thracian Bulgarians

November 18, Saturday, Art Salon of Radio Varna, 10:00-17:00

Macedonian Cultural and Educational Society “Gotse Delchev” – Varna, Institute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Macedonian Scientific Institute You are invited to a Scientific Conference 130 YEARS OF THE BEGINNING OF THE ORGANIZED LIBERATION MOVEMENT OF THE MACEDONIAN AND THRACIAN BULGARIANS

PROGRAM
10:00 a.m. – Opening. Welcoming speech by Anton Apostolov – chairman of MKPD “Gotse Delchev” – Varna
Musical performance by the People’s Choir “Thrace” at the People’s Community Center “With Thrace in the Heart” – Varna

First part
(Moderator: Prof. Dr. Slavi Slavov)

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Prof. D.Sc. Radoslav Mishev (University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”)
The international conditions and impacts in the creation and strengthening of the Bulgarian national liberation movement in European Turkey 1893–1899.
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Assoc. Dr. Georgi N. Georgiev (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS)
The uprisings of VMORO
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Assoc. Dr. Vanya Stoyanova (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS)
The idea of ​​political autonomy of Macedonia and Odrinsko and the Thracian Bulgarians (until 1903)
11:15 – 11:30 Dr. Georgi Trenchev (Macedonian Scientific Institute)
Creation of VMORO structures by Gotse Delchev during his legal period
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Assoc. Dr. Milen Mihov (Macedonian Scientific Institute)
The ideological crisis in VMORO after 1903
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Prof. Dr. Dimitar Sazdov (University of National and World Economy)
Ferdinand I and the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Odrin Thrace at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Prof. D.Sc. Biser Georgiev (Bishop Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen)
Dr. Vasil Radoslavov’s relations with leaders of the national revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Odrin from the end of the 19th century to the end of the First World War
12:15 – 12:30 p.m. Assoc. Dr. Slavi Slavov (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS)
Varna and the Bulgarian revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Thrace (1893 – 1912)
12:30 – 13:00 Short discussion
13:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

Second part
(Moderator: Prof. Dr. Georgi N. Georgiev)

1:30 p.m. Musical performance by Folk Ensemble “Gotse Delchev” – Varna at the association of the same name
13:40 – 13:55 Assoc. Dr. Zhivko Lefterov (New Bulgarian University)
Advisor, treasurer, proxy: Dr. Dimitar Tochkov and VMORO
13:55 – 14:10 Diana Marinova (Union of Scientists in Bulgaria)
The Bulgarian literary heritage with a focus on Macedonia of the Czech journalist and Bulgarian philologist Vladimir Sis (1912 – 1918)
2:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Assoc. Dr. Stefan Minkov (Bishop Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen)
The end of the First World War, the consensual occupation of Bulgaria and the resumption of the activity of the VMRO
14:25 – 14:40 Assoc. Dr. Alexander Grebenarov (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS)
The national liberation movement of the Macedonian Bulgarians after the First World War – between traditions and the challenges of the new era
14:40 – 14:55 Dr. Fabio Bego (specialist at the Institute of Historical Studies – BAS)
Albanian-Bulgarian relations after the First World War
14:55 – 15:10 Assoc. Dr. Angel Johnev (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS)
The last Bulgarian righteous man from the last composition of the Central Committee of the VMRO
15:10 – 15:25 Dr. Volodya Milachkov (Institute of Historical Studies – BAS)
Dobruja followers of VMORO
15:25 – 15:40 Nikolay Poppetrov (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS)
The historiographical interpretations of the Macedonian-Edrina liberation movement
15:40 – 16:40 Summary discussion
17:00 Closing of the conference