Today and tomorrow Vice President Iliana Yotova will visit Vienna, Republic of Austria, where under her patronage she will the tenth jubilee international conference for students and doctoral students in Bulgarian studies, as well as their lecturers, was held. This was announced by the press office of the president.
The organizer of the largest event, which manages to gather representatives of the Bulgarian lectureships on Bulgarian language and culture abroad, is the Bulgarian Cultural Institute “Dom Wittgenstein“ with the support of the Bulgarian embassy in Austria, BTA pointed out. Participants from 14 countries, including Bulgaria, will present their research, united by the general theme of the conference "Crossroads: introversion and extroversion of Bulgarian culture." European contexts“. 25 universities will be represented – mainly from Europe, but also from distant Japan and India, the press office informed.
The international conference will be held at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute “Wittgenstein House”. The vice president will participate in its opening on Thursday. Emphasis in her speech will be the influence of Bulgaria on the civilizational and cultural development not only of the Slavic, but also of the whole world, the spread of Bulgarian culture in the 21st century, as well as the prospects for modern Bulgarian studies and lectures on Bulgarian language and culture.
Today the vice president will meet with representatives of the five Bulgarian Sunday schools in Austria. Yotova's program includes a visit to the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, where she will talk with its management and with women in leadership positions in various sectors of Austrian and Bulgarian business. The Chamber works very actively with Bulgaria. In the last two years, her focus has been on the development of the Danube region. Emphasis in the activity of the chamber is the promotion of women's participation in business.
Bulgarian studies and Slavic studies have their great future and development in different directions. There is a great hunger to study Bulgarian studies in many foreign universities, and not only in Europe. A good basis for this interest is the developed system of Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad, Vice President Iliana Yotova said at the end of June at the closing of the second session of the International Forum for the Cyrillic Alphabet in the Regional History Museum in Plovdiv. Language. Identity".