Programme of BSA Annual Conference 2022
BSA Annual Conference ‘2022
Mobility, migration, mobilisation
25 November 2022 г.
Conference Hall 2, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
11.30-17.10 ч.
ZOOM link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87647836505?pwd=alFjeHpTWjF6YVdMYmZwTDk3T2NIQT09
General Assembly BSA
Start: 17.00-18.30 ч.
Program
11.30-13.30
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Svetlana Hristova
Humanistic Sociology and Migrations – One Hundred Years Later. Dr. Michaela Mischeva. UNWE, Department of Economic Sociology [in Bulgarian]
How are refugees expelled from Bulgaria. Rumiana Zheleva, IFS at BAS [in Bulgarian]
Culture and identity in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Svetlozar Kirilov, Sofia University, Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication [in Bulgarian]
Media: an opportunity for cultural dialogue with migration. Angela Georgieva, PhD student, Department of Media and Communication, New Bulgarian University [in Bulgarian]
Challenges, experiences and identity of Bulgarian migrants (Bulgarians in London and returnees). Gergana Kurtakova, PhD student, Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski University, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Department of Applied and Institutional Sociology [in Bulgarian]
Discussion
13.30-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.30
Moderator: Prof. Rumyana Stoilova
Migration and destination choices of Ukrainian refugees: A coincidence or rational decision-making? Prof. Dr. Irena Kogan, Chair of Comparative Sociology, Mannheim University Germany
Social Differences in Attitudes Towards Immigrants. Prof. Dr. Rumiana Stoilova – IFS at BAS, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova – IINCH at BAS/ Paisii Hilendarski University, PhD student Evelina Slavkova – Sociological Agency “Trend” [in Bulgarian]
Experimental replacement of the Bogardus scale with context-sensitive questions in measuring social distances towards refugee groups and ethnic minorities. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexey Pamporov, IFS at BAS [in Bulgarian]
Discussion
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00
Moderator: prof. Petya Kabakchieva
Migrations, compressed modernities and multisituated inequalities,Prof. Dr. Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Research Director at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon, Triangle
Public attitudes and institutional measures to guarantee the rights of refugee and asylum-seeking children. Assistant Dr. Maria Brestnicka, UNWE, Department of Economic Sociology [in Bulgarian]
Discussion
17.00 -18.30
General Assembly BSA
Chair: Alexey Pamporov
Agenda:
- Registration;
- Report on the activities of the BSA Board and financial report for 2022 Prof. Rumiana Stoilova;
- Presentation of a vision of the association’s activities for 2023;
- Other.
Glass of wine
