Historical Science in Chains: The Impact of the Bilateral Agreement Between Skopje and Sofia on Freedom of Academic Work (original) (raw)

SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES AND BULGARIA IN THE 1920s, Facta Universitatis, Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History Vol. 17, No 2, 2018, 149-158.

The topic of the paper is the scientific, cultural and educational cooperation between individuals and institutions of the Kingdom of S.C.S. and Bulgaria during the first postwar decade, the role of the state (government) and political circumstances in making scientific, cultural and educational connections. We will show that there was a very pronounced correlation between political relations and relations, conditionally speaking, on the "non-political" level. " High politics " dictated the dynamics of relations in all other fields. However, linguistic and geographical closeness has made it possible to survive cultural contact, at least to a minimum, regardless of the very unfavorable political environment. The research, based on unpublished and published sources, press, and historiographic literature, represents a scientific contribution to the knowledge of mutual relations, as this topic is not researched in both domestic and Bulgarian historiography.

Science in Central Europe

2018

The aim of the paper is to show the interplay between the power and the science in the context of cultural memory. The focus is on the Cyrillo-Methodian anniversaries in Bulgaria in the communist period, and the object of the analysis is the anniversary of 1969. The context relates to the process of development of new historiography and the functionalization of the nation-centric narrative. The main issue discussed is how the Communist Party, as a political institution, and the Bulgarian Academy of Science, 1 The research is a part of a larger project entitled “The Jubilee Culture: The Usage of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition in the Communist Period in Bulgaria” (no. DFNP-228/26.05.2016), which is financed by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and conducted in the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre.

Science convention "Rijeka and its Citizens in Medical History" 2000-2009 - history of medicine as a component of scientific visibility

Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA, 2011

This paper analyses the form and content of the first ten science conventions "Rijeka and its Citizens in Medical History" ("Rijeka i Riječani u medicinskoj povjesnici") which were held in the period between 2000 and 2009 according to the archive data of the convention organizers Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture. It presents data on the inception of the idea of a science convention, its organisational features (organising committees, presiding committees, convention topics, venue, patrons) and number of participants. A total of 174 presentations whose abstracts were published in individual Convention Collections were given at the ten conventions by 103 different authors from Croatia and neighbouring countries. After the first ten years the entire material was compiled and published with an analytical comment in the anniversary issue Znanstveni skup Rijeka i Riječani u medicinskoj povjesnici 2000-2009 (Scientific Convention Rijeka and ...

THE CHALLENGES OF UNIVERSITIES REGARDING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 1

Buletini Shkencor Reald, 2023

This article aims to examine and analyze the challenges in scientific research in the Western Balkans' universities. The analysis focuses on the identification of the main problems that affect the quality level of scientific research in these universities, bringing into focus the financial difficulties, the low standards of the teaching process, and the lack of cooperation between institutions. Through an up-to-date analysis, the main factors contributing to these challenges are identified. A special attention is paid to the impact of financial conditions on the development of scientific research, as well as the lack of high academic standards. This article while dealing with this topic also includes specific suggestions to improve the situation, including

The relationship between the state and humanistic sciences in Serbia at the beginning of the 21st century: Citation metrics as an attempted murder of Serbian …

Etnoantropološki problemi, Beograd, 2008

In Serbia, the influence of the society on humanistic sciences is mainly perpetrated through state funding of scientific projects. Such funding currently involves valuation of the results of a scientific work by applying citation metrics methods, which are not acknowledged in Europe. Citation metrics in the USA, where it was created, lead to caricature forms of scientific products, composed of several pages of text and a great number of cited (quoted) titles. Citation metrical-citation manic procedure can lead to the limination of the domestic humanistic sciences and the implementation of third rate quoteres, who, along with hollow articles filled with mutually intertwined citations, fulfill requirements, unconsciously(?) set by the authorized Ministry and University.