Eleventh International Scientific Conference
“Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization” (KIN2025)
08-11 October 2025Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria and Online - Hybrid Version
During the International Tourism Fair “Cultural Tourism” - Veliko Tarnovo
Announcement: Bulgarian and English.
Preliminary Program
Working language: Bulgarian and English
Deadline for applications for participation with abstract/summary: 05 September 2025
Application form for participation in the conference
Confirmation for acceptance: 10 September 2025
Full paper submition: 26 September 2025
Participation fee - 120.00 BGN (61.36 euro)
Deadline for payment of fees: 30 September 2025
Payment information
Internet address of a channel on the YouTube platform for broadcasting the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/@KIN_Conference
The main directions of the conference are the preservation, digitalization and presentation of the cultural and historical heritage (CHH). The interdisciplinary forum aims to present scientific and applied research, projects, innovations in the field of CHH. The main focus of conference will be modern research trends and innovative applications in this broad spectrum, as well as the Bulgarian experience in the presentation and digitalization of CHH. Presentation of research in the humanities: archeology, museology, historiography, medievalism, architecture, ethnology, folklore, cultural anthropology, linguistics, literature, musicology, theology, theater, fine arts, screen arts, and etc., as well as their relationship with information technologies, digitalization, digital conversion, publication of electronic information arrays on cultural, historical and scientific heritage, systematization and effective access.
The topics of the scientific forum are within the wide range of the following research areas, without being limited to them:
Extended versions of reports presented at the forum will be published after double-blind review in journals indexed in global databases (ERIH PLUS, Crossref, Scholar, etc.). Requirements and instructions for submission of full papers.
The program will include reports from renowned experts and young scientists from Bulgaria and abroad in the preservation, presentation and digitalization of CHH, round table, exhibitions and demonstrations.
Research institutes, universities, libraries, museums, archives, galleries, business representatives and tourist information centers are invited to exchange experiences, ideas and results on the theme of the conference.
Program and organizing committee
Organisers
The main directions of the conference are the preservation, digitalization and presentation of the cultural and historical heritage (CHH). The interdisciplinary forum aims to present scientific and applied research, projects, innovations in the field of CHH. The main focus of conference will be modern research trends and innovative applications in this broad spectrum, as well as the Bulgarian experience in the presentation and digitalization of CHH. Presentation of research in the humanities: archeology, museology, historiography, medievalism, architecture, ethnology, folklore, cultural anthropology, linguistics, literature, musicology, theology, theater, fine arts, screen arts, and etc., as well as their relationship with information technologies, digitalization, digital conversion, publication of electronic information arrays on cultural, historical and scientific heritage, systematization and effective access.
The topics of the scientific forum are within the wide range of the following research areas, without being limited to them:
- Preservation of CHH: traditions, practices, conservation
- Presentation of CHH: institutions of memory, cultural tourism, media, festivals
- Digitization of CHH: technologies, methods, digital accessibility
- Processing and applications of digital resources related to CHH
- Management of CHH: strategies, legislation, creative industries, digital marketing
- CHH and education
- CHH and theology: traditions, practices
Extended versions of reports presented at the forum will be published after double-blind review in journals indexed in global databases (ERIH PLUS, Crossref, Scholar, etc.). Requirements and instructions for submission of full papers.
The program will include reports from renowned experts and young scientists from Bulgaria and abroad in the preservation, presentation and digitalization of CHH, round table, exhibitions and demonstrations.
Research institutes, universities, libraries, museums, archives, galleries, business representatives and tourist information centers are invited to exchange experiences, ideas and results on the theme of the conference.
Program and organizing committee
Organisers
- Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo, Faculty of Fine Arts, Bulgaria
- Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- European Association of Folklore Festivals (EAFF)
- Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo Branch, Bulgaria
- “Tsarevgrad Tarnov” Ltd., Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
- Veliko Tarnovo Municipality, Bulgaria
Information and registration: kin.conference@gmail.com