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Close Encounters: Seeing and Believing after Socialism in Bulgaria and Beyond
Thu, November 21, 12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 4th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon BSession Submission Type: Panel
Brief Description
The panel looks at the early years of transition in Bulgaria and beyond through a series of contacts with the "strange an unusual"--mystical conspiracies, paranormal seers, and capitalist missionaries.
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Papers
'‘IT', ‘Ricky', ’They’ Are in Charge of Our Lives': Mystic and Conspiracy Explanations of the Bulgarian Post-Socialist Transition - Lyubomir Raychev Pozharliev, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany)
Paranormal Parastates: Bio-Healing, Energies, and Alternative Sciences in Post-1989 Bulgaria - Victor Petrov, U of Tennessee
A Bulgarian Medium in the Media: Transnational Transitions and Baba Vanga in the Russian Imagination - Mary Catherine Neuburger, U of Texas at Austin
Title: Innocents Abroad at the End of History: Last Men (and Women) at the American University in Bulgaria - Cristofer Scarboro, King's College
