The research focuses on the migration, mobility, and culture of minorities in Central Europe and the Balkans. The aim of the research is to study the historical and contemporary diasporas of the minorities there, as well as the related migration and mobility. The other aim is to study how the groups of people in Central Europe and the Balkans, belonging to a culture other than the majority of the society in which they live, exercise their right to preserve and express their own culture, profess and practice their own religion, and use their own language.
Research period: 01/08/2020 – 31/12/2022
Principal investigator: Bódi, Ferenc
Participating researchers: : Ralitsa Savova (University of Pécs, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Political Science Program), Csepeli György (ELTE), Mód László (University of Szeged), Nuno Morgado (Charles University), Szabó Árpád Töhötöm (Babeş-Bolyai University), Filip Škiljan (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies), Damir Josipovič (Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana), Mladena Prelic (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Nikolai Vukov (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Contact: ralitsa.savova@tk.mta.hu
Conferences, lectures.
2022
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
«HUMAN CAPITAL: GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT
9-11 December 2021, Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Lecture of Ralitsa Savova in Russian: “Challenges and Opportunities of the Bulgarian Labor mobility and labor migration”
Video of the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OlbIYnH3E&ab_channel=БазоваякафедраТППРФ
Certificate for attending the conference as a speaker
XI International Scientific and Practical Conference " "Abalkinskiye chteniya"
SECTION 6. INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNAL LABOR MIGRATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
17 May 2021, Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Lecture of Ralitsa Savova in Russian: “MIGRATION TRENDS IN LABOR MOBILITY WITHIN THE EU DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC”
Certificate for attending the conference as a speaker
11th Biennial Conference of the EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH (ECPR) Standing Group on the European Union
8 – 10 June 2022, Luiss University, Rome, Italy
Lecture of Ralitsa Savova: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on labor mobility within the EU https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/62077
Certificate for attending the conference as a speaker
2021
The 8th International Research Conference MECHANISMS FOR FORMATION OF CULTURAL EXCLUSION AND FRONTIER ZONES – 2021, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, October 6-9, 2021
07-10-2021
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Bulgarian Tolstoy colony (1906-1908): Followers of the religious and Ethical DOCTRINE OF LEO TOLSTOY IN THE VILLAGE OF YASNA POLYANA, PRIMORSKO MUNICIPALITY, BULGARIA
06-10-2021
Lecture by Ference Bódi: FORBIDDEN MOURNING. SZOLYVA [СВАЛЯВА] AS A ZONE OF OBLIVION
25-06-2021
Online presentation of the book Courage in Politics, edited by Ferenc Bódi, Andrea Ragusa, Ralitsa Savova. The event is organized by the Filippo Turati Foundation for Historical Studies, Florence, Italy and the Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary
24-06-2021
Journal of Frontier Studies, Vol 6 No 2 (2021), Guest Editor of the entire c
ontent of the journal: Ralitsa Savova
https://jfs.today/index.php/jfs/issue/view/24
22-06-2021
Announcement from the Filippo Turati Foundation for Historical Studies, Florence, Italy on the presentation of the book Courage in Politics, edited by Ferenc Bódi, Andrea Ragusa, Ralitsa Savova
2020
6/8-05-2020
"Time, go!" Time of philosophy and the philosophy of time international conference, 6th-8th May 2020 ,Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Organizers of the conference: Centre for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ralitsa Savova – Chair of Section III "Time, personality and value-1"
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Russian emigration in the ‘Golden Age Twenties’ of the 20th Century: Cultural presence, social and political activities in Bulgaria
7/10-10-2020
“7th International Research Conference Mechanisms for Formation of Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones (CEFZ)-2020”, 7th -10th October, 2020, Herzen State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Organizers of the conference: Centre for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Journal of Frontier Studies, Herzen State University
Ralitsa Savova – Chair of Section 7. AREAS OF CULTURAL EXCLUSION IN THE EASTERN EUROPE
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Economic and political processes and socio-cultural transformation during the pandemic 2020
Lecture by Ferenc Bódi: Ferry countries in Europe - during a transitional period - on the border between East and West
2019
2/5-10-2019
“The 6th International Research Conference MECHANISMS FOR FORMATION OF CULTURAL EXCLUSION AND FRONTIER ZONES and Roundtable Talk “Migrating Eastern Europeans”, 2nd-5th October 2019, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
Organizers of the conference: Centre for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University Institute of Philosophy, Department of Russian Philosophy and Culture
Lecture by Ferenc Bódi: Hungary at the crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Costs of Bulgarian Labour Migration and Labour Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities
2018
01-10-2018
“Permanent Dialogue on Migration” International Conference, 1st October 2018, Mercatorum University, Rome, Italy
Organizers of the conference: EURISPES, Rome, Italy & Institute of Linguistic, Civilizational and Migration Processes (ILCMP) at Russkiy Mir Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Announcement about the event:
At EURISPES website:
Conference Feedback:
At the Institute of Linguistic, Civilizational and Migration Processes (ILCMP) at Russkiy Mir Foundation (literally "Russian World Foundation") website:
In English: https://russkiymir.ru/en/news/246798/
In Russian: https://russkiymir.ru/news/246780/?fbclid=IwAR3qvSWKJvQ_wKDTcDb2_5biDMf62M6LAqV6YlnoTnpokSX6QMfVsa0-ljc
At other Italian media:
22-11-2018
The Heritage of Bulgarian market-gardeners in Eastern Europe conference, 22nd November 2018, Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary
Organizers of the conference:
Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged
Department of Slavic Philology, University of Szeged
Department of Material Culture of the Hungarian Ethnographic Society
Bulgarian Research Institute – Budapest
Announcement and info about the topic of the conference:
http://neprajzihirek.hu/konferenciafelhivas_a_bolgar_kerteszek_oroksege_kelet_europaban
Lecture by Ferenc Bódi: Immigration of Bulgarian market-gardeners to Hungary: Model of the integrated migrant as a probable type of migrant
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: “The Gardeners of Europe”: From labor mobility and migration to economic and social phenomenon. A case study of Bulgarian market-gardeners in Hungary.
Conference Feedback: https://etnoszeged.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/a-bolgar-kerteszek-oroksege-kelet-europaban-2/
2017
08-09-2017
Organizers of the conference: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) Program, Tokyo, Japan
Lecture by Ferenc Bódi and Ralitsa Savova: Aspects of ecological and economic anthropology of a migrant group: a case study of Bulgarian market-gardeners in Hungary
Conference Feedback:
At Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence: https://politikatudomany.tk.hu/hirek/2018/04/publikacio-bodi-ferenc-tanulmanya
At other media: https://euroastra.blog.hu/2017/09/18/mta_fenntarthatosagi_forum_sajat_sorsunk_a_jovo_onmenedzselese
15/16-06-2017
Cultural Heritage in Migration International Conference, 16th -17th June 2017, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Lecture by Ferenc Bódi: Immigration of Bulgarian market-gardeners in Hungary – integrated migrant model in the 19th and 20th c. in the Central Europe
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Bulgarian educational institutions preserving the native language of the Bulgarian minority in Hungary
2016
06/09-04-2016
Scientific Conference on Social sciences and Arts, SGEM, 6th-9th April 2016, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria
Lecture by Ferenc Bódi and Ralitsa Savova: Integrated Migrant in Hungary
2015
1/3-07-2015
Organizers: The International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), University of Ioannina, Greece
Poster Session by Ferenc Bódi: “From Periphery to the Center”
Poster Session by Ralitsa Savova: “Bulgarian school for native language in Budapest, Hungary”