Day 5 of the Week of the Book Was Focused on the Historical Interpretation and Digital Transformation

The Historical Hitchhiker's Guide by Prof. D.Sc. Pencho Penchev was the first book presented on the Day 5 of the Week of the Book. "This book is a significant step in the attempt to overcome misinterpretations in Bulgarian history. All the processes and events described in it are known, the new is seen in the interpretation and in the conclusions", said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marko Dimitrov from the Political Economy Department who presented the book.

Prof. D.Sc. Pencho Penchev and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marko Dimitrov

"There is a great need for a new reading of Bulgarian history in order to remove things that are the fruit of ideology and deliberate distortion of historical truth. It is good that the author does not set himself the megalomaniac task of rewriting history but only wants to provoke, to contribute to getting closer to the truth", added Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marko Dimitrov.

"The book presents to great extent what our university is. In book has political economy, history, essays. It presents my conversations with colleagues, moments of intellectual interaction with most of the people who are here. The intellectual environment that exists at the University has helped to write these books", said Prof. D.Sc. Pencho Penchev.

"The Historical Hitchhiker's Guide is a continuation and addition to the essay collection Past Unfinished. Missed Lessons of Bulgarian History". The book is an invitation to a conversation that aims to help everyone reach an answer to the question of the meaning of historical knowledge”, is said in the book's annotation. It is a rigorous selection of scholarly material, presented in language that is accessible to people who are not necessarily professional historians.

The book "The Digital World - The Change Global Digital Transformation - Enriching or Impoverishing the Humanity by Prof. Dr. Lyuben Boyanov examines the ongoing digital transformation of the Earth, in which process transformations are taking place in every sphere of human activity. With the advent of the phenomenon of the Internet of Objects /of Things/, every object, every type of human activity and even every living being gets the opportunity to be digitized.

"The main theme is related to what is the importance of digitalization in terms of collecting big data from everything and everywhere. My first monograph was on the Internet of Objects, which was rumored to happen, today there is a working Internet of Objects where we get information from and that's why the title of this book is about the digital world and change. In it, I look at how the whole Earth, and all the activities around us are being digitized. And it's an important question - as everything becomes digital, where do we, as humans, stay?", shared to the audience Prof. Boyanov.

Prof. Dr. Lyuben Boyanov

The book is about the ways in which digital transformation is taking place, in which everything is gradually being digitized. It looks at the scope of this transformation and one of its most important aspects and consequences - the creation of big data on a global scale. The dynamics and directions of their development, their relevance to all areas of people's lives and the beginnings of the big data generation process are examined.

Mailbox for Fairy Tales Publishing House participated in the University Week of the Book with the presentation of the collection and the project entitled Look Now, My Girl.

"Mailbox for Fairy Tales Publishing House was founded 13 years ago by Gery Turiiska and has initiated a number of people to submit creative texts, which are selected and presented to an audience by artists. "We have filled club stages, summer theatres and cinemas. Some of these unknown authors are now famous writers and poets and in 2015 we made a publishing house", explained Ralitsa Naydenova, Tsvetelina Tsekova and Iva Daynovska from the Mailbox for Fairy Tales team.

Ralitsa Naydenova, Tsvetelina Tsekova and Iva Daynovska

They presented the latest collection, Look Now, My Girl, which includes true stories described by 19 incredible women united by the power of words and the desire to answer the discouraging phrases, "Look now, my girl, it is not a woman's business" or "Where are you pushing with the men too".

Look Now, My Girl is defined as a mission book which overturning the stamp that woman is lower placed than man. The personal stories are compelling and show strong, talented, interesting women who are making a bright mark on society with passion and creativity. The team is determined to raise enough money from the sale of the collection to provide scholarships to inspired, young women artists.

The project Look Now, My Girl is aimed at adult women who are part of the Bulgarian education system as of the current year 2023 - graduates and students who can apply with their own project in the field of art, dedicated to a social cause. At the first stage it is enough to send the described idea and if it is approved, at the second stage it will be further developed with the help of the team.

The idea must have some social orientation and be implemented through creativity /for example, giving concerts in an orphanage, or creative clubs for disadvantaged children, or developing a programme for blind people.../.

Winners will receive funding of up to £4,000 /per project/.