Seminars
📖︎ Series of seminars: "At the Origins of the Alphabet: A Palaeographical Comparison between Cyrillic and Greek Majuscule"
Friday, March 27, 2026, 17:00 (Bulgarian time)
"Cyrillic in the Context of Greek Script from the Late 9th–10th Century"
by Prof. DSc. Vasya Velinova (Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies “Prof. Ivan Dujčev” – Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)
💻 Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87267603595?pwd=VxB51XFC6xpbrJi6rQaFnYuwbO52fN.1
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 17:00 (Bulgarian time)
"Il patrimonio manoscritto cirillico e italo-greco (IX–XI secolo)" [en. Cyrillic and Italo-Greek Manuscript Heritage (9th–11th Centuries)]
by Assoc. Prof. Donatella Bucca (University of Messina, DiCAM)
🔗 Facebook Live [Facebook event]
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✍︎ Series of seminars on Epigraphy
Our research team organised a series of online seminars dedicated to epigraphy. The initiative aims to examine epigraphic material as a key stage in the development and formation of the Cyrillic writing system, which later manifested itself in the manuscript tradition.
| Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 17:00 (Bulgarian time) | Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 17:00 (Bulgarian time) | Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 17:00 (Bulgarian time) |
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"Digital editions of epigraphic monuments: scripts, code, representation" |
"Кирилски епиграфски паметници в средновековна България – палеографски особености" (Cyrillic Epigraphic Monuments in Medieval Bulgaria – Paleographic Features) | "Epigraphy and Paleography. Old Bulgarian evidence" |
| by Senior Assistant Professor Dr. Dimitar Iliev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) | by Senior Assistant Professor Dr. Georgi Sengalevich (NAIM–BAS / Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) | by Prof. Dr. Andrej Bojadžiev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) |
| 🔗 Facebook event | 🔗 Facebook Live [Facebook event] | 🔗 Facebook Live [Facebook event] + YouTube video |
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Conference participations
International Scientific Conference “Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics 16” (Tršić, October 3–5, 2025)
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Давидовић, М., Рипаранте, M. Писарска радионица монаха Дамјана-Јосифа: палеографске студије и дигиталне алатке

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DiPP2025 — Fifteenth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage (Burgas, September 25–28, 2025)
🔗 Full Conference Programme
- Scarpa, M., Paneva-Marinova, M. Towards Innovative Study of Cyrillic Alphabet through Contemporary Information Technologies. Challenges and New Perspectives
- Riparante, M., Davidović, M. Who was the real collaborator of the copyist Damijan-Iosif
The two articles are published in Volume 15 (2025) of Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, ISSN: 1314-4006 (Print), eISSN: 2535-0366 (Online). For further information, please, visit the DiPP Proceedings website.

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Digital Heritage World Congress & Expo (Siena, September 8-12, 2025)
🔗 Full Congress Programme
- Riparante, M., Goynov, M., Paneva-Marinova, D., Pavlova, L. Enhancing South Slavic Cyrillic Manuscripts Research Through a Digital Toolkit for Cyrillic Palaeography
The poster article is published in the proceedings Digital Heritage 2025. For further information, please, visit DH2025 - Digital Heritage International Congress 2025 website / Track: Posters, Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, Tutorials.
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XVIIth International Congress of Slavists / XVII международный съезд славистов (Paris, August 25–30, 2025)
🔗 Full Congress Programme
Thematic block 2.3. Nouveaux défis de la paléographie slave / Новые вызовы славянской палеографии (Room 208, Tuesday 26.08, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM)
Organiser: Scarpa Marco (Italie)
- Scarpa Marco (Italy), Новые вызовы славянской палеографии
- Велинова Вася (Bulgaria), Ранната българска кирилска графика в контекста на взаимоотношенията моделреципиент (върху материал от Х-ХІІ в.)
- Moussakova Elissaveta (Bulgaria), Писмо и стил
- Burlacu Constanța (USA/Vatican), From data to discovery: insights from the Кopisti XIV database
- Riparante Marta (Bulgaria), Digital methods in Slavic Palaeography: Bulgarian scribal practices in the 14th century
- Давидовић Милена (Serbia), Српски писари и скрипторијуми на Светој Гори 14. столећа: могућности дигиталног приступа и истраживања

