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Alexander Kiossev
Born in 1953 in Sofia. Academic Support to the Project Leader within the Project "Visual Seminar:" responsible for the Resident Fellows Program and for the integrating of the artists in the intellectual community of CAS
 

educational background

2000 - 2001

Senior fellow of Collegium Budapest, Hungary

1998

Habilitation in History of Modern Culture, University of Sofia.

1997

November - December, Specialization at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. France

1990

January - July, post-doctoral specialization at the universities of York and at the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Cardiff (supervisor Prof. Christopher Norris)

1989

PhD. in historical poetics of Bulgarian literature

1974 - 78

Student in Bulgarian philology, Faculty of Slavic Philologies, University of Sofia
 

professional background

Lecturer for History of Modern Culture, department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sofia
 

Teaching background:

2003

Director of the MA. Program "Arts and Cutural Intitutions in the XXth and XXIst century," University of Sofia, Faculty of Philosophy

2002 - 2003

Member of the Board of the Ochrid Summer Scool

2000 - 2002

Academic Director of The Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, tutor of Associate fellows

1998 - 2000

January Regional Director for Eastern Europe of the International Summer School in Theory of Humanities, Santjago de Compostela, Spain

1998 - 1999

Director of the program "Artes Liberales," New Bulgarian University, Sofia

1995 - 1998

Chair of the Department of New Bulgarian Studies, New Bulgarian University

1997

Director of the international Summer University Liminal Europe
 

Research:

2003 - 2005

Convenor of the collective research project Roles, Identities and Hybrids, sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation, host organisation the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia

2003 - 2004

Researcher and group leader in the collective project, Nation Building and the Break Up of the Empire: Balkan Literatures in the Era of Nationalism. Host organisation Bilgi University, Istanbul

since 2003

Head of the fellowship program in the framework of the "Visual Seminar" at the CAS

2000 - 2002

Convenor of the collective project NEXUS: How to think about the Balkans: Culture, Region, Identities," sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation host organisations the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
 

Civic activities:

since 2002

Chair of the board of the Southeast European Academic League (SEAL)

2002

Member of the board of the Ohrid Summer University, Macedonia

2002

Member of the Advisory Board of the Bulgarian Studies electronic network

1998

Curator of the Bulgarian cultural program at the "Leipziger Buchmesse", Germany

1998 - 2001

Member of the Board of the Open Society Foundation, Sofia.

1987 - 1989

Leader of the group Synthesis (interdisciplinary and opposition group of young artist, writers, academics, and students, Sofia)