Conferences
Presentation of the book " Literary Journalism in Bulgaria" by Dr. Bissera Zankova and Dr. Ivo Indzhov at the Canetti Festival in Ruse.
19th Ruse International Literary Festival "Polylogue — The Voice of Reason" (AUFKLÄRUNG IN ZEITEN DER VERDUNKELUNG)
19-И МЕЖДУНАРОДЕН ЛИТЕРАТУРЕН ФЕСТИВАЛ РУСЕ “ПОЛИЛОГ — ГЛАСЪТ НА РАЗУМА”
October 3–11, 2026
Canetti House · 12 Slavyanska St. · 7000 Ruse, Bulgaria
Dr. Bissera Zankova and Dr. Ivo Indzhov will present their book “Literary Journalism in Bulgaria” at the Canetti House on Saturday, October 10, as part of the festival.
16th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference CEECOM 2027: Communication and Freedom 16 –17 September 2027 Belgrade, Serbia
Organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade in cooperation with the ECREA Central and East-European Network
CEECOM 2027 invites contributions that address a variety of issues. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological work related to, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Freedom of Expression, Communication Inequalities, and Human Rights;
- Communication and Academic Freedom;
- Press Freedom and Democracy;
- Media Ownership, Freedom, and Capture;
- Communication in Social Movements, Protest, and Civic Resistance;
- Journalistic Innovation, Sustainability, and (De-)Capture;
- Narrative Control and Contested Freedoms;
- Political Communication, Attention, Visibility, and Agenda Control;
- Public Service Media, Governance, and (De-)Capture;
- Journalistic Autonomy, Precarity, and Safety;
- Communication, Democratic Backsliding, and Institutional Resilience;
- Digital Rights, Platforms, and Algorithmic Power;
- Organizations, Digital Spaces, and Online Free Speech;
- Media and Algorithmic Literacy, Information Disorders, and Audience Agency.
While CEECOM is primarily a media and communication conference, we welcome contributions from all disciplines, and interdisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged. And although the conference focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, we are equally open to studies that place the region in comparative perspective or examine similar dynamics elsewhere.
Keynote Speaker
Marius Dragomir, University of Santiago de Compostela & Media and Journalism Research Center
Abstract Submission
CEECOM 2027 accepts individual paper presentations, pre-constituted panels, and roundtable proposals. All submissions should be made through the online submission form.
The language of the conference is English. Presentations at the conference will be in person only.
For any inquiries, please write to us at ceecom2027@ifdt.bg.ac.rs
For more details about fees, submissions, programming and organizing committees, please go to https://ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2026/09/call-for-papers-ceecom-2027-communication-and-freedom/?lang=en
Launch of the book “Literary Journalism in Bulgaria”
On November 27, 2025, in the UNWE Library, Faculty Reading Room, the launch of the book “Literary Journalism in Bulgaria” by Dr. Bisera Zankova and Dr. Ivo Indjov took place. Lecturers and students were present, as well as Dimitar Kenarov, author, journalist and winner of the annual journalism award of the Virginia Quarterly Review magazine.
Memories were also shared about Prof. Vesselin Hristoforov, a scholar with diverse scientific interests and one of the founders of the State University of Financial and Administrative Sciences, today the University of National and World Economy, brother of the prominent Bulgarian writer and economist Assen Hristoforov, one of the authors and literary journalists studied.
Roundtable: „Transparency of Media Ownership and Media Freedom – Problems and Solutions“, November 14, 2025, UNWE.
ECREA 2026 11-the European Communication Conference Shifting Grounds: Paths, Connections, and Futures
The upcoming European Communication Conference, organized by ECREA will take place on the premises of the Masaryk University in Brno, Check Republic, 8-11 September 2026. To check participation conditions, please visit https://ecrea2026brno.eu/.
CEECOM 2025: Journalism, Audiences, and Platform Power in the Age of Transformation June 6-7, 2025 Zadar, Croatia
The Department of Sociology at the University of Zadar in cooperation with the ECREA Central and East European Network organized the 15th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference CEECOM 2025 from June 6-7, 2025 in Zadar, Croatia.
The theme of the 15th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference was “Journalism, audiences, and platform power in the age of transformation”.
Dr. Bissera Zankova delivered a paper in the session of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) titled: “The media and the Internet environment in Bulgaria. Reflections related to the implementation of the European Media Freedom Act based on four media projects”.
ECREA 2024 10th European Communication Conference Communication & social (dis)order
ECREA is a learned society of communication scholars devoted to development of communication research and higher education in Europe.
Dr.Bissera Zankova’s presentation, titled “Incomplete media transparency – flawed democracy: the case of Bulgaria| was delivered within the following session: “Policy in media ownership transparency: Results and challenges of cross-country comparison” 26 September 2024.
