Workshop for Young Researchers

Media Coverage and Exploitation on the War Memory by Tourism Industry

27.04 - 30.04.2013 at University of Blagoevgrad (Including Visits to the Places of War Memory)

P R O G R A M

27th of April 2013 Chairperson: Kristina Popova, SWU “Neofit Rilsky”, Blagoevgrad Moderator: Nurie Muratova 17:00 – Kristina Popova Traveling, Studying and Loving the Fatherland: Places of the Russian-Ottoman War in the Student Excursions in Bulgaria 1878 – 1912 17:30 – Nurie Muratova Memorials of the Russian-Ottoman War in the Tourist Movement in Socialist Bulgaria after 1944 18:00 - 18:30 – Discussion Moderator: Anastasia Pashova 18:30 - 19:00 – Division in working groups: Questions and tasks for the observation of the Places of War Memory in Pleven, Veliko Tirnovo, Gabrovo, Shipka and Plovdiv.

28th of April 2013 8:00 – Leaving Blagoevgrad for visiting Pleven Memorials Visit of the “Pleven Battles Panorama” and the Military History Museum in Pleven 15:00 – Visits of the War Memory Places in Tirnovo: “General Josif Gurko” Street, First Bulgarian Parliament Building and others. 18:00 – 18:30 – Discussion: Presented/Not Presented Places of Memory Moderator: Milena Angelova

29th of April 2013 11:00 – Visit of the „Rozhdestvo Christovo” Church, the “National Park-Museum” and Liberty Memorial, Shipka. 16:00 – Visit of the Liberty Hill, Alexander II Memorial in Plovdiv and the “The Mother of General Skobelev” Memorial Discussion: Places of Memory/Tourist Places

30th of April 2013 10:00 - Final Discussion