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The Exhibition entitled Women's Press – Women of the Press: Women's Periodicals and Women Editors in Ottoman Space (1845-1923) presents women's publishing activity in the Orthodox Community during the late Ottoman period and more precisely during the period extending from the first women’s periodical publication year (1845) to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1923).  The Exhibition, based on the research so far, includes all women’s periodicals published within the Orthodox-Greek Community and their editors (thirteen posters for the periodicals and nine for their editors), as well as a sample presentation of women’s publishing activity within the Bulgarian Community  (four posters for periodicals and two for their editors).

The Exhibition, which is complementary to the Conference, visualizing the research outcomes on women’s presence in the crucial public sphere of press and journalism, aims at communicating them to the public, thus disseminating knowledge on women’s and gender history and contributing to its integration in public history.

The Exhibition is the result of individual and collective work, which was initially organized within the Master’s Program “Education Theory, History and Policy” of the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies and continued with master’s and doctoral theses as well as collaborations with researchers from foreign universities such as Professor Krassimira Daskalova of St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Part of the work of Prof. Daskalova’s research group on the periodicals project is presented in this Exhibition in the frame of the aforementioned collaborations.