On Thursday, 19 February 2026, the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) invites you to the 49th ArchaeoSciences seminar. This edition’s guest speaker is Dr. Vladimir Slavchev from the Regional Museum of History, Varna (Bulgaria), who will present a lecture titled “Dynamic of the cultural changes in the coastal zone between Danube and Balkan mountains from the end of 6th to the end of 5th millennia BC”.
The seminar will start at 12:00 (EET), at the ICUB Seminar Room (formerly the Herbarium), Faculty of Biology, Botanical Garden Building (3 Portocalelor Entrance, basement, District 6).
Dr. Vladimir Slavchev is Chief Assistant at the Archaeology Department of the Regional History Museum in Varna. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of History of Sofia University in 1997 and started working there as a specialist in the same year. In 2005 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Contacts between the Northwestern Black Sea Coast, Dobrudja and the Forest-Steppe Zone of Eastern Europe during the Transition from Early to Late Eneolithic (Based on Ceramic Data)”. He led over 100 archaeological excavations, including the settlement near the town of Suvorovo, the First and Third Varna Necropolises, and the Golemiya Ostrov tell near Durankulak. Among others, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Eurasian Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (2008-2010), Honorary Assistant Professor in Prehistory Part I in the specialty of Archaeology at Sofia University (1998–2001), Honorary Lecturer in Prehistory in the Archaeology department at the Bishop Konstantin Preslavsky University (2014/2015), Guest Lecturer at the Kazakh National University “Al-Farabi” (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (2014/2015), and Guest Lecturer at numerous universities in Germany, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Russia and the United States. His main areas of expertise are mainly in the field of prehistory, in particular the Copper Age of the Black Sea Coast, Dobrudja and the neighboring regions.
These seminars are an original initiative of the ArchaeoSciences Platform (ASp) at ICUB, which aims to provide an open space for professionals in archaeological sciences worldwide to share knowledge and engage with the latest methodological and theoretical advances in the study of the past. They also offer Romanian students a valuable opportunity to discover the interdisciplinary dimensions of archaeology and archaeosciences.
Postări asemănătoare:
ICUB invites you to the lecture “Off the beaten track: The Significance of the Black Sea Regions for European Neolithization”, delivered by Dr. Marta Andriiovych from the University of Oxford and the University of Bern
ICUB invites you to the lecture “Feeding the Past: Unraveling the Diets of Ancient Caucasian Societies”, delivered by Dr. Estelle Herrscher from Aix-Marseille Université, France
ICUB invites you to the lecture „Settlements in the Varna Lakes region during the Eneolithic period – new data based on old findings”, delivered by Dr. Stanimir Parvanov from the Regional Museum of History, Varna
