This volume comprises nineteen contributions presented at the interdisciplinary conference Bulgarian Studies and Modern Humanities, held in Berlin in October 2024. Organised into five thematically diverse panels, the papers explore the transdisciplinary intersections of these fields with Bulgarian Studies.

Autorentext

Christian Voß is a professor for South Slavic Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. Recent monographs Linguistic boundaries in the Greek-Macedonian contact zone in 20th century (2023) and The Glocalization of Southeast European Literatures in 21st century (2024).

Lyubka Lipcheva-Prandzheva is a professor for Bulgarian Literature at Paisij Hilendarski University in Plovdiv. Recent monographs Being in Translation. Bulgarian Literature in German language 19th-20th century (2010), Classics, Expats and Emigrants. Literary identities and translation (2020).

Inhalt
: - : XXI - - LINGUISTICS - Iliyana Krapova: BULGARIAN AS A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE - Iliyana Krapova, Roumyana Pancheva: THE ROLE OF BULGARIAN SYNTAX IN GENERATIVE LINGUISTIC THEORY - Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan: LINGUISTIC AND ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN THE ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE OF HERITAGE BULGARIAN IN THE UNITED STATES - Penka Stateva: ON THE NATURE OF THE PLURALITY INFERENCE - LITERARY STUDIES - Galin Tihanov: RE-IMAGINING THE RELEVANCE OF BULGARIAN LITERATURE - - : . - Henrike Schmidt: JULIA KRISTEVAS INTERTEXTUALITÄTEN. EIN BEITRAG ZU EINER GLOBALEN BULGARISTIK. ODER: DIE BULGARISTIK IN DEN "WINDEN DER WELTKULTUR" - TRANSLATION AND CULTURAL TRANSFER - - : - ( ) . - Mihaela P. Harper: MAKING BULGARIAN LITERATURE (AS) WORLD LITERATURE - : -

• Alexander Sitzmann: KLEINE SPRACHE, KLEINE LITERATUR? - HISTORY AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES - Diana Mishkova: BULGARIAN HISTORY-WRITING IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT: LEGACIES AND INROADS - : - QUESTIO DIABOLICA - Adelina Angusheva: DISAPPEARING KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMING PRACTICES: MEDIEVAL BULGARIAN LITERATURE FROM BEIJING TO COLUMBUS - "SMALL LANGUAGES" AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Achim Rabus: SMALL (AND NOT-SO-SMALL) SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND AI: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS - Ludmil Duridanov: BRAVE NEW WORLD OF AI ASSISTED HUMANITIES - Vladimir Neumann: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM A LIBRARIAN'S PERSPECTIVE: PROJECTS AND RESOURCES FOR BULGARIAN AND SLAVIC STUDIES AT THE BERLIN STATE LIBRARY - zvetomira Venkova: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CLASSIFYING BULGARIAN GENERATIVE PAPERS - CHRISTIAN VO IM GESPRÄCH MIT GEORGI GOSPODINOV (GEDOLMETSCHT VON MILAN RADEV): WENIGER ERINNERUNG - MEHR VERGANGENHEIT? SCHREIBEN GEGEN DAS DEFIZIT AN ZUKUNFT