Miroslava ANTOLOVÁ
Miroslava Antolová
PhD, Catholic University in Ružomberok
Who has the right to live in Singer´s preference utilitarianism?
The conference paper primarily deals with preference utilitarianism presented by Australian philosopher Peter Singer who is known for his controversial ideas in the field of practical ethics. These ideas mostly rail against dogmas “the sanctity of human life” or absolute “reverence for human life”. The main aim of the conference paper is to present the fundamental assertions of preference utilitarianism in the book Practical Ethics. The author also would like to analyze the argumentation connected with the questions of moral status of human embryos and handicapped infants. The central question of the conference paper is- who has the right to live in Singer´s preference utilitarianism? And it is really morally defensible to protect the nonhuman animals (e.g. chimpanzees, dogs, and cats) when on the other hand, infants and foetuses and humans in a persistent vegetative state have to die? The author works with the critics mentioned by Dale Jamieson in the book Singer and His Critics and Susan Lufkin Kranz Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory: The Importance of Human Dignity and many others.
Ferran Armada
PhD, University of Barcelona
European Energy Market Integration: Efficiency improvements in Electricity producing and distribution firms
From the last few decades the energy sector in almost all countries, and particularly in Europe, has experienced a group of reforms, these reforms try to cope with mainly three aspects of the energy producing firms: the security of supply of raw materials, the control of shocks in prices and the efficiency improvements of firms in the energy sector. In this paper we try to explore the last one. We first identify the main factors that may lead to efficiency improvements in the energy sector; secondly, we propose measures for each factor and; finally speak about of the efficiency improvements that might be directly related to the integration of Energy Markets in Europe. While efficiency improvements have been pointed as one of the main objectives in the design, development and deployment of European reforms in this sector, we believe that the greatest part of improvements can be identified with different causes like technological improvements or new energy generation methods. A better identification of factors and their consequences it’s crucial to cope better with further reforms and policy design.
Andriy Bakushevych
PhD, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
The problems of the relationship between theology and natural (physical–mathematical) sciences based on modern investigation
This paper analyzes the relationship of theology and natural sciences, particularly physico-mathematical. The development and contemporary issues in this direction of investigated.
The mode of correlation of science and theology according to Michal Gellerhas are presented. The existence of some interaction between physical theories and theological or philosophical doctrines that under certain circumstances provides the appearance of interrelated or equivalent theoretical principles and conclusions in various fields is shown. The significance of the Geller concept of interaction for a theologian prevailing scientific image of the world is proven.
Based on the most famous naturalists and scientists on issues of interdisciplinary studies it have been shown the value of the relationship of modern physics and theology, in particular, the scientific and religious point view on the issues of the origin of the Universe and the conditions of existence of life on Earth are highlights.
Actuality of collaboration of faith and science is presented. On concrete examples it is proved the efficiency of interaction in a dialogue between precise and philosophical - theological sciences. A way of development such interaction through the formation of interdisciplinary working groups is recommended.
Michał Bizoń
PhD, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Origins of the Notion of Free Will in Classical Philosphy
The paper presents a history of the notion of free will. The evolution and elaboration of the relevant terminology and the theory of this concept is traced from its prehistory in the Sophists and in Plato to St. Augustine and John of Damascus.
The paper shows that a fundamental distinction in concepts of the will, which gives rise in Scholastic philosophy to two major ethical theories, those of voluntarism and rationalism, originates from two opposing moral psychologies, these being Sophistic relativism and Socratic intellectualism. It is further shown that these two competing notions have given rise to two traditions in ethical thinking in ancient (Stoics vs. Neoplatonism) and early medieval thought (St. Augustine vs. John of Damascus).
It is shown how this notion of will is developed in the philosophy of Plato, prominently in Republic IV. This is subsequently compared with a further development in Aristotle (Eudemian Ethics I), where a fundamental set of concepts is developed (boulesis and proairesis), which will later be adopted by Scholastic ethics.
Next the development of these concepts is outlined, from early Hellenistic philosophy (Stoics), through crucial Roman influence (introduction of the concepts voluntas and voluntarius), to theories of the will in the early Christian era (Epictetus, Origen, Plotinus). It is shown that a fundamental opposition between stoic and neoplatonist ethical systems reflect the original contention between the relativism and intellectualism of the Sophists and Socrates.
The paper ends with a presentation of two developed theories of the will, those of St. Augustine and John of Damascus. It is shown how these diverging theories emerged from earlier thought, as well as how they influenced later thought, and became the basis for two types of ethical systems, rationalistic and voluntaristic. The difference between them hinges on different treatments of the primacy of reason and will in moral action. In conclusion it is demonstrated that as this distinction derives from competing Augustinian and Aristotelian influences in Scholastic thought, it should be traced to the analogous dispute in Ancient philosophies, and ultimately to the contention between the Sophists and Socrates.
Annika Christine Brandt
MSc, Radboud University Nijmegen
Happiness – Does Attention Make the Difference?
Research revealed that an important difference between happy and unhappy individuals is their manner of construing the world. In particular, happier people tend to interpret their environment more positively than their less happy peers. We suggest that differences in attention underlie these results. We investigated the effect of happiness on attention and subsequent recognition for pictorial stimuli that varied on the dimensions of valence, and, for more exploratory reasons, relevance. We hypothesized that happy people should pay more attention to positive information, whereas unhappy people should focus more on negative information. In addition, we investigated whether the above effects were moderated by relevance. In order to test these hypotheses, participants’ gaze patterns were assessed while they watched pictorial stimuli as an indication of attention. Afterwards, participants were asked to complete a recognition task to investigate to what extent attentional processes are related to subsequent memory.
Michal Čakloš
PhD, The Catholic University in Ružomberok
Slovak Press in the Second Half of the 19th Century
In this article we will discuss Slovak periodicals, which were published in the second half of the 19th century. In the introduction the methodology of processing of historical newspapers will be briefly depicted. We will also point out at their ability to have validity as relevant historical sources. The most important prints will be described. Newspapers are divided into several groups according to their content and focus. The attention is paid to periodicals such as National newspapers, Catholic newspapers as well as to journals for entertainment for instance: Černokažník and Rarášek.
We will also have a closer look at publishers that printed out the above mentioned periodicals. The article will focus on national centers as Martin and Karol Salva Publishing company in Ružomberok. On the other hand the conditions and the publishing codes, which limited the publishing of national press in the Austro-Hungarian empire are portrayed.
The perspective of Hungarian authorities and their approach to Slovak newspapers is mentioned in the article as well as closer look is given to the quality of Slovak newspapers in terms of formal and content arrangements. In the content arrangements significant contributors, currency and objectivity of press but also accuracy and range of foreign news are highlighted. In the end we will look at the affordability of public press of Slovak people. The significant role played factors as numbers of subscribers and readers but also the problems with the distribution.
Łukasz Cięgotura
MA, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Normative turn in political science
In a number of methodological concepts emphasizes the difference between normative and empirical approaches to politics. The empirical political science excludes normativity understood as an aspect of ethical standards: recommendations, duties, as well as axiological: values, value judgments. The central question of this paper is: Is it possible political science without aspect of the normative? Is it empowered dichotomy, empirical - normative? In this paper I want to show that the opposition empirical - normative is groundless? In political science empiricism and normativity are in coalition. Empirical political science devoid of normativity is losing its essential purpose and object of the research is becoming impoverished.
Karol Czachorowski
PhD, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
The City of Social Practices
The city is not only a material or spatial structure but it consists of countless and diverse human interactions, relations and activities above all. Such social practices form both the substance of urban space as our perception of it. The urban space undergoes constant adjustments to specific needs and actions of particular individual and collective human actors. As a result, given places and spaces are somehow subjects of social interpretation and reinterpretation – construction and reconstruction of some specific, culturally influenced, senses or contexts. My aim will be to give examples and discuss some of the impacts of day-to-day human actions on the visible substance of the city.
Paweł Tomasz Czerniak
PhD, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
English as a Lingua Franca: Phonological Intelligibility
English has gained a status of an international language. The knowledge of English has become almost indispensible in the 21st century world. It is widely learnt as a foreign language and used as a second language by a number of bilingual speakers. Due to the enormous number of (first, second and foreign language) speakers of English, it has developed a considerable variety of styles and registers as well as regional dialects and vernaculars, which inevitably leads to social and linguistic dilemmas: Which variety to teach at schools? Should we learn the “local English”, the “British English”or the “American English”? The notion “English as a Lingua Franca” emerged from such dilemmas – we should acquire English not as a flawless system used by an ideal native speaker but as a flexible language used for the purpose of communication. Since we are not native speakers of English, we should not pretend to be ones. This, in turn, raises a paramount concern: to what extent can we “domesticate” the pronunciation of English? This presentation deals with the problem of foreign pronunciations of English and the extent to which speakers from different language environments can substitute it with their own phonologies and remain intelligible.
Maciej Czerniakowski
PhD, The John Paul II University of Lublin
The Image of Man in Historiographic Metafictions by John Banvile: The Historiographic
Typically, historiographic metafictions would question the way in which we reconstruct history by prominent self-consciousness of the text. Works such as Doctor Copernicus or Kepler by John Banville seemingly fail to comply with the criteria defining works written in this genre. History, as presented in the texts, does not appear to pose too many problems as far as the writing of it is concerned. This claim finds confirmation in the fact that many events which are mentioned in the novels turn out to be true to historical record, which proves that even though the writing of history may be complicated, it is manageable after all. Similarly, the self-consciousness of the text, at a first glance, is not particularly prominent here. For instance, only rarely is the narrator’s language auto-referential and even less frequently the narrator draws the readers’ attention to the fact that what they are dealing with is fiction. An illustrative example may be Rheticus’s narration but that seems to be the only case of this strategy in the two books in question. As the following paper will prove, though, there are many arguments why the readers should categorize these two novels as historiographic metafiction.
Agnieszka Bożena Czusz
PhD, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin
How current moral development theories could act as a frame for the education of the intellectually disabled?
Abstract: to be confirmed
Joseph Davis
MA, Glasgow University
Title and Abstract: to be confirmed
Matúš Demko
PhD, Catholic University in Ružomberok
Communication of Church: Recent Challenges
Presentation discusses the chances and opportunities of Church communication in media and its influence on public meaning. Using the example from Slovakia, it shows what can be done in the field of Church and media. Presentation underlines the necessity of this communication process between Church and public on the grounds of Church documents on media.
Jeroen Johannes Michaël Dera
PhD, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Institutional identity: the case of online book reviewing in the Netherlands and Flanders
Although the emergence of the Internet has caused major changes within (national and global) media landscapes, the public discourse on literature is mainly centralised in traditional media such as newspapers and magazines. Online evaluations of new works of literature are widespread, but these examples of digital literary reviewing are still not acknowledged as authoritative forms of criticism. In my lecture, I will analyse the image building of Dutch-language online literary criticism by applying Gwyneth Jackaway’s concept of institutional identity to the case of, respectively, Jeroen Mettes’ critical poetry weblog and the Dutch-Belgian review site De Reactor. Focusing on the reception of these digital projects, I will argue that traditional media (published on paper) impede the symbolic growth of digital literary media by constructing a discourse in which online criticism is connected to shallowness, ad hominem arguments and the private sphere.
Estera Deželak
MA, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
The word-catcher: A creative writing experiment
Literary works enchant with stories, ideas, characters ultimately created out of words, phrases, sentences – structures intensely scrutinized and specially selected out of a plethora of possibilities during the critical, creative imaginative process. So much depends upon the right wording. Original, attractive imagery built on precise, powerful blocks of words creates worlds of fantasy, reality or absurdity. But how does a writer make these worlds credible, believable to the point of self-identification? How to rid yourself of clichés? How is writing taught? Can it be taught? How to make a literary work work? We’ll be writing, and talking about writing, and thinking about writing.
Rastislav Dluhý
MA, The Catholic University in Ruzomberok
Kerygma in Television Broadcasting
This study summarizes the results of work being done to announce the kerygma through television. It defines the meaning of the kerygma and the content that it covers. It illustrates the various different forms of the kerygmatic message and of their effects. It covers both the verbal and the visual aspects of television broadcasting. It examines the development of this medium and of its effects in both Catholic and Protestant churches. It concludes by summarizing the latest findings of research on television audiences.
Matej Drobnak
PhD, The Catholic University in Ruzomberok
The Role of Convention in Language
The basic idea that language is at least partially conventional seems admissible at first glance. However, it is not clear at all to which extent conventions should play role in philosophical explanation of language. On the one hand we can identify proponents of the thesis that conventions are at the very core of the language and because of this, conventions should play the crucial role especially in the explanation of communication. On the other hand, there are opponents who believe that we can identify much more important features for the sufficient explanation of language and communication and conventions play just minor role. The subject of this paper is to summarize assumptions and main arguments of two influential authors of this discussion – David Lewis and Donald Davidson. The aim of the paper is to point out potential difficulties and problematic questions which can arise from both perspectives.
Lilla Dunai
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Young adults’ attachment tendencies in light of parental divorce
In my BA thesis I examined attachment tendencies among young adults, depending on their parents are divorced or not.
My research is based on John Bowlby’s attachment theory (1969), which is the fundamental model of attachment relationships, and Mary Ainswoth’s attachment types. Based on their common work began to prosper the research of adult attachment, therefore I reviewed Hazan and Shaver’s (1987) and Bartholomew and Horovitz’s (1990) researches.
In my thesis a projective drawing test (Bird’s Nest Drawing, Kaiser, 1996) was used to explore the representations of familiar and attachment aspect of parental divorce, and I also examined the image of family structure with Attachment Style Questionnaire (Feeney et al, 1994) and Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker et al, 1979).
Results have demonstrated fundamental differences between broken and biparental families in the familiar system of relations and in parental roles.
My MA thesis is in progress now, in which I enlarge my previous research with higher sample, but now I examine a more specific age-group, and use more specific statistics.
Boglárka Faragó
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Differences between cohorts in gender identity and stereotypes
My research explores women’s gender identity. Gender identity is strongly associated with distortions of the own group and the other, and plays an important role in the use of biases and stereotypes. My main focus was women’s explicit and implicit biases and stereotypes of their own group.
Subjects were selected from two cohorts matched in socio-economic status and education; the first cohort included adult women between ages of 45-55; the second cohort included young adults, between ages of 20-30.
Materials included the Sexual Social Identity Scale, the Gender and Carrier/Family version of the Implicit Association Test (developed by this research), the Swim’s Sexism Scale, the Ambivalent Sexism Scale, and a one item sexism scale.
Results showed that benevolent sexism manifested strongly in the older cohort, however, members of this cohort preferred modern gender roles. In contrast, the younger cohort showed a preference for traditional gender roles in the explicit, and also in the implicit measure.
Results were explained by using Erikson’s theory of identity development, and with the specifics of Hungarian history. Overall, explicit measurements showed the participants’ preference for modern gender roles, while the implicit measurement resulted in a more traditional view of gender roles.
Andrea Fodor
PhD, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
The Use of Colours in a Present Day Hungarian Performance of Othello
Shakespeare’s Othello is based on the contrast of black and white – though some other colours occur in the play as well. I would like to analyse a Hungarian performance (directed by Eszenyi Enikő, Vígszínház 2009) on the bases of the use of colours. Since colours have an effect on the reading of the play I find it important to see how a present day direction keeps the original colours or how much it modifies them.
Dóra Günsberger
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Constitutional Dilemmas Concerning the Status of Minorities in Pakistan after Zia ul-Haq
In 1947, Pakistan was created as a Muslim nation state, and as such, the status of religious minorities has been a complex question ever since. Among religious minority groups, it is the Ahmadiyya community that is perhaps the most challenged among all: however declaring itself as a Muslim sect, it was constitutionally declared as a non-Muslim minority group in 1974.
First, I seek to trace the concepts concerning the status of religious minorities in the Pakistani society through a legal aspect. I analyze the founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s views and the actual legal steps made concerning the status of minorities after his death – with special emphasis on the constitutions and the Islamization process of Zia ul-Haq. Then I seek to analyze the special status of the Ahmadiyya community and explore how the Islamization of the law affected their position in the Pakistani society. Lastly, it is the question of the meaning of Pakistani citizenship to the Ahmadis that forms the scope of my paper.
Elvira Gyorgyovichné Koltay
PhD, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Gated Communities and their Non-profit Organisations in Hungary
In private urban governance voting rigths depend on property. In local government you have voting rights, because you live there. That is why private urban governance fundamentally different from local governance. In my view, nonprofit organisations in gated communities are examples for private urban governments. So, my first question is: What position does gated communities and their private urban governance have in local community?
My second question is justified by the fact, that these private urban governments in gated communities work in nonprofit organization form. Nonprofit organization’s activities ought to be of public utility. Is this also true in gated communities? How can they be of public utility in communities which gated themselves from the others outside?
With my research I would like to show up more information about the Hungarian gated communities. I think they are indicators of polarization in our society. That’s why we have to know more about them, and their occupant’s motivations. More information can also help local government’s decisions.
Eszter Hegyi
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Young women’s conceptions of childbirth
The purpose of this study was to investigate young women’s conceptions of childbirth.
Data were collected among 224 primiparous women with a self-administered questionnaire that explored the respondents’ pregnancy experiences and conceptions of childbirth focusing on their perceived competence for birth and their birth related locus of control beliefs.
In the questionnaire we used several scales including the Birth Care Climate Questionnaire (BCCQ – perceived support for birth related competence and autonomy), Birth Competence Questionnaire (BCQ), and Birth Locus of Control Scale (MHLC-B). In addition, the questionnaire contained further questions about pregnancy, and the self-esteem was also explored using the Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSE).
According to our results the primiparous women’s perceived birth competence was positively associated with their self-esteem, the gestation period and the perceived autonomy support by obstetrician. Internal birth locus of control was related to higher perceived birth competence and self-esteem. Furthermore, higher perceived competence for birth and higher self-esteem were connected with more intense intentions for future childbearing.
Our findings indicate that both personality factors and perceived support from the social environment, (e.g. from health care professionals) may have significant impact on young women’s conceptions of childbirth.
Maikel Hengstler
PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen
The influence of approach-avoidance orientation on conflict adaptation
Cognitive conflict plays a major role in tuning cognitive control. Earlier findings showed that arm extension (avoidance), relative to arm flexion (approach), enhanced cognitive functioning. In avoidance the compatibility effect (i.e., the difference between performance on incongruent trials I and congruent trials C) was smaller than in approach. Extending these findings, we investigated cognitive control by looking at the effect of the compatibility of the previous trial (i vs. c) on performance on the current trial (I vs. C), i.e. conflict adaptation. Based on the idea that being in an avoidance mindset biases individuals towards conflicting signals, we expected that the heightened attention towards conflicting cues would cause a trial-by-trial adaptation of cognitive control as a result of allocating resources when needed. As predicted, arm movement affected both compatibility effects and conflict adaptation: Compared to approach, avoidance was associated with a reduced compatibility effect and increased conflict adaptation.
Hendrik Hilgert
MA (?), Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität, Münster
smartNETWORK of Graduate Schools in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The smartNETWORK is an interdisciplinary association of nine graduate schools and three research groups of Münster University's Humanities and Social Sciences. The NETWORK connects organizationally independent graduate schools and integrates them into a joint process of cooperation, exchange and learning. The involved graduate schools have joined on a voluntary basis with the objectives of promoting the interdisciplinary discussion in the Humanities and Social Sciences and to improve structured doctorates in the participating departments.
In all of the smartNETWORK's graduate schools it is possible to choose an interdisciplinary supervision team. The primary supervisor must be employed at an institute participating in the graduate school. The second and possibly third supervisor, however, may also come from another institute or from another department.
In order to structure the interdisciplinary discussion, the smartNETWORK has developed the anchor theme "Decisions, Strategies, and the Public". This theme is not set permanently, but the subject of scientific debate in the smartNETWORK. The three concepts decisions, strategies and the public span a field of research to whose processing doctoral candidates in the smartNETWORK also contribute with their doctoral projects.
In this way the network offers doctoral candidates not only an inspiring research environment, but also all the advantages of a structured doctorate. Particularly international doctoral candidates can benefit from this type of doctorate.
Julia Horváth
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Mathematics through students’ eyes: attitudes, myths, anxiety
With a new approach, and by considering multiple aspects, the present study explores students’ attitudes towards mathematics and attempts to reveal the reasons behind the widespread negative evaluation of this subject. The cross-sectional analysis was based on results of questionnaires completed by 86 high school students and 50 mothers. Students completed four questionnaires: Attitudes Towards Mathematics Inventory, Math Myths Questionnaire, Math Anxiety Rating Scale and a demographic questionnaire. Mothers completed the modified versions of the ATMI and the MMQ. As part of the research, I adapted the ATMI to Hungarian, wich resulted in a factor structure almost identical to the original. The results support the hypotheses. Math anxiety of students shows positive correlation with math myths, and negative correlation with attitudes. Also, besides a gender difference, studying mathematics on an advanced or intermediate level results in significant differences in attitudes. Furthermore, a connection between the attitudes of mothers and their children can be found, however, different patterns can be described in relation to sons and daughters. Past events and earlier grades too have a clear effect on attitudes. The study emphasises the significance of negative presumptions and belief systems of students towards mathematics, where family can have indirect effects.
Julia Horváth, Renáta Világos
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Relation of emotional responses induced by autobiographical narratives to early maladaptive schemas in patients with psychiatric disorders
Background. Emotions induced by autobiographical narratives are influenced by the nature of the memory-evoking narrative. Early maladaptive schemas systematically distort perception and influence the experience induced by recalling life memories in a negative way.
Hypotheses. The pattern of emotional responses to various episodes of life narrative will differ from each other regarding valence, arousal level and agency. Persons with higher scores on the maladaptive schema domain are assumed to give more negative emotional responses to narratives.
Method. The sample included 41 psychiatric patients suffering from depression or borderline personality disorder. Narrative identity was assessed by autobiographical interview. Emotional responses were measured by the Manikin test. For the assessment of maladaptive schemas, the Young Schema Questionnaire was used. Data were evaluated by repeated measures variance analysis and correlation analysis.
Results. Findings support the hypothesis that patterns of emotional responses evoked by episodes of life narrative would be different. „Peak experience” memories, for instance, induced more positive emotions than any other memory, while „nadir experience” memories resulted in the most intense feelings of sadness, excitement and inferiority. Persons with higher scores on the maladaptive schema domain generally reported more intense feelings of sadness, excitement and inferiority. Furthermore, a connection was found between effects induced by various types of narratives and specific domains of maladaptive schemas.
Discussion. The results, in accordance with our expectations, show that the type of a recalled memory determines the nature of the induced response, and that individual maladaptive schemas modify this effect in a differentiated way.
Caressa Janssen
PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen
Lexical specificity training enhances phonological awareness in second language learners
Vocabulary knowledge is strongly connected to later success in school, however, second language learners often enter primary school with limited vocabulary in the target language. Speech decoding skill, phonological awareness and lexical specificity are phonological variables that have been shown to be related to children’s vocabulary. Improvement of these variables may enhance vocabulary development of second language learners. In this study, the role of lexical specificity in word learning was explored.
Lexical specificity is defined as knowledge on how words ought to sound and is highly related with phonological awareness. First language learners (4-year-old monolingual Dutch children) and second language learners (4-year-old Turkish-Dutch bilingual children) were compared in their improvement on phonological awareness after having received a lexical specificity training. Results show that lexical specificity training enhances phoneme blending, the ability to identify a word when hearing parts of the word in isolation (a component of phonological awareness), both in first and second language learners. Moreover, phonological overlap of the Dutch and the Turkish language in stimulus materials of the lexical specificity training contributed most to the gain in phoneme blending for the second language learners. A first step has been taken in finding a way to close the gap in word knowledge between young first and second language learners.
Anna Juhos
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
‘Missing Women’ – Reasons for Excess Female Mortality in Adulthood. A Study of Maharashtra
Excess female mortality has long been one of the most contested issues gaining widespread attention since Amartya Sen (1990). He refers to the concept of ‘missing women’ as a significantly lower survival chance of females resulting from their relatively lower status and thus neglect of health care, medication and nutrition all over the less developed world.
This research aims at contributing to the extensive debate on the concept of ‘missing women’ in India and is built around the question of why economic growth did not result in gender equality but sustained excess adult female mortality in Maharashtra.
The contrast between prosperity, high levels of female literacy, life expectancy on the one hand and women’s high mortality and low status on the other will be examined. Several sub-questions also arise for this case study of Maharashtra, such as what are the potential reasons which forestall and constrain gender equality and empowerment and lead to excess adult female mortality? Additionally, how does Hindutva ideology prevalent in Maharashtra determine women’s status in the household and society?
Lucija Kelbl
MA, University of Ljubljana
The Road to Self-Discovery is Paved with Mary Sues
The paper deals with the Mary Sue phenomenon in Harry Potter fan fiction, found in web-based archives such as and . The presenter will take a closer look at the Mary Sue genre, the reasons behind its prevalence and the reasons why it is so often, perhaps unfairly, viewed in a highly negative light by the rest of the fan fiction community. Could it be that writing Mary Sue fan fiction is an inescapable, and indeed vital, first step for most fan fiction writers? Where can one draw the line between a (regularly criticised) Mary Sue and a well-rounded (and often praised) original character?
Csilla Kiss
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
The legal regulation of light pollution in and outside of Europe
In the 21st century new types of environmental problems have surfaced, introducing new issues to 3rd generation law, and so has light pollution.
Light pollution is a modern environmental-risking issue that unfortunately enjoys poor awareness both in people’s mind and in the international law. Due to its multiple risks to human health, environment and aesthetics, there have been successful attempts to regulation, which lead to national restrictions in and outside of Europe.
I will present these restrictions concentrating mainly to Europe, and try to expose those common aspects that could result an international contract. The main goals would be highlighting the importance of the threat this kind of pollution present and providing general knowledge on its legal background so that the audience could leave with greater awareness of light pollution.
Rita Kóris
PhD, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Business English Teacher Competencies in the Light of Corporate Requirements
The presentation aims to explore the specialized competencies and attributes that Business English (BE) teachers need in order to run successful BE courses and comply with the requirements of the business community. A questionnaire survey was conducted among business professionals (N=87) working for companies operating in Hungary. This quantitative study attempts to assess the corporate requirements imposed on BE teachers and their use of BE for their work activities and tasks. Results show that business professionals in higher, managerial positions use BE more frequently and for a larger variety of professional purposes. As for the expectations of the business professionals, the findings reveal that among the predefined five constructs (Language competence and ELT qualification; Business knowledge and qualification; Experience; Skills; Personality traits) the positive personal characteristics of the language teacher is considered to be the strongest, while business knowledge and qualification is the least expected from BE teachers. The results imply that compliance with the corporate requirements and fulfilment of the immediate needs of BE learners are likely to be the key factors of BE teacher professionalism. Therefore, acquiring BE teacher competencies is vital for the successful delivery of any BE course.
Marie-Christin Kos
MA, University of Duisburg-Essen
The change of the scientific world view and its impact on theology
To understand the strained relationship of theology and science, it seems advisable to give a historical overview. Due to the rapid development of and the radical change in all sciences, especially in physics, which took place at the beginning of the 20th century, theology and science broke off relations.
This essay is supposed to describe how the scientific world view has changed over time (using physics as an example) and in how far this change has influenced theology. It will be explained how and why theology and science started drifting apart and what their current relationship is like.
Theology, at the beginning of the 20th century, was a rather ‘incompetent’ partner for science. This had its reason either in the fact that theology was not willing to adequately go into the dialogue or that it was not able to understand the findings of modern physics. Thus, both disciplines started drifting apart. If someone at all strived for a dialogue it were philosophically or theologically educated scientists.
Andrea Kószó
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Attachment security in foster home
This study examines attachement among adolenscent and young adults, who live in foster care. 83 people were participate in the research from 6 different foster home. Everybody were between the age 14 and 22. The research consists of two parts. In the first I examined the association between the early childhood experimence and the attachment and the association of the regular parental visitation and the attachment security. In the second part i devided the participans into two groups, according to the occurrance of internalization and externalization symptoms. Each group were 30 participants. For the measure of attachment the ASQ, the IPPA, and the HPB-I tests was used and a projective test, the birdnest drawing. To asses the early childhood experience and the contact with the parents i established an interview.
Maren König
MA, University of Duisburg-Essen
The Question of guilt: The Evangelical Church in Germany and the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt, 1945
In the aftermath of catastrophes people want to know who is responsible for the happening and who is guilty. Exactly this was the case in Germany in 1945. It was obvious that Germany was guilty, because the regime indented the Second World War. Therefore Germany was directly declared guilty by the Allies, although the judicial process did start years later. Especially the Americans concentrated on a collective form of guilt, which was justified by the discoveries the Americans made when they found the “Konzentrationslager” and likewise places. They confronted the Germans with their discoveries and placed placates with titles like “Those infamous actions: Your guilt!”[1] or “You are guilty”[2].
Many intellectuals therefore dealt with the question of guilt and tried to elaborate it. So did Karl Jaspers who claimed: “Philosophy and Theology are asked to elaborate the question of guilt”[3]. The Swizz theologian Karl Barth also appealed to the Germans to deal with this question. But it was mainly the members and delegates of the Ecumenical Church who animated the German Evangelical Churches to write a statement, which confesses guilt in a theological perspective.
The direction for this essay is to illustrate how the Evangelical Church in Germany (also known as EKD) dealt with the question of guilt in 1945 by analysing the main document – The Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt, 1945. Before addressing this issue it is necessary to briefly define the term “guilt” and furthermore give some historical background information. In doing so, crucial positions within the Council of the EKD will be briefly considered. Moreover, a critical analysis, including reactions and effects, is offered by this essay.
Gabriella László
PhD, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
The Role of Animals in Virginia Woolf’s Quest for Expression
As Virginia Woolf’s readers may easily observe, representations of animals are abundant in her novels, short stories and essays. Her scholars can also trace the presence of dogs, cats, butterflies and other four-legged and winged creatures in the life of the author, and many studies were written to indicate the effect of them on Woolf’s work. My field of research is the motif of quest in Virginia Woolf’s work of art, concentrating mainly on spiritual quest as the vital part of the body of her experimental writing. With this presentation my aim is to discuss the role of animals in Woolf’s quest for expression as the enrichment of her unique technique for the new form of modern literature. I would like to examine Woolf’s elaborate observation of animals, the appearances of their features in the description of both the surface and the depth, and the possible conclusions of the author when scrutinizing the similarities of spirit of humans and non-humans.
Michał Leśniak
PhD, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Role of values in science
Presence of values in scientific practice is one of the most important problems in philosophy of science. Traditional account on this matter is that science is and should be value free. According to this view, presence of any non-epistemic elements, e.g. values, will certainly lead to relativism. In modern times, when scientists are the most prominent authorities and they influence on various spheres of human life, idea of value free science is often criticized.
Arguments for “value-laden” science are put forward in a different traditions i.a. in the feminist philosophy of science. In my paper I am going to analyze the role of values in science in two dimensions: values as a part of set of beliefs of individual scientist and an universal set of values accepted in science.
Gerine Lodder
PhD, Radboud University
Look into my eyes: gazing of lonely and non-lonely students
Lonely individuals experience the quality or quantity of their social relations as dissatisfying, and have a strong motivation to connect with others. When non-lonely individuals experience this motivation – called the need to belong – they increase attention to social cues provided by the individuals around them (e.g., positive or negative emotional expressions). These cues can then be used to connect to others. If lonely individuals follow the same process, that would imply that lonely individuals are always in a state of hyper-awareness towards these social cues. We therefore hypothesized that lonely individuals would spend more time looking at social cues than non-lonely individuals. Results of 2 studies that tested this hypothesis will be presented. In the first study we used four eye-tracking tasks to examine gazing towards social and non-social cues in both images and movies. In the second study we examined the degree to which students look each other in the eyes during a real-life interaction.
Marta López
PhD, University of Barcelona
How students use ICT to learn?
My PhD project’ aim is analise the point of view of the university student about how they use technology for their learning. The intention is drawing conclusions to improve the learning design of situations in formal contexts, making them closer, adapted and motivating for students, taking into account the different profiles of students identified and their technology uses.
Theoretical context where the study develops, will take in account the new learning paradigms, like seamless learning, social participative learning and seflregulated learning. Moreover it will analyse the digital culture students and the different activities and practices with ICT that are carried out to learn.
The methodological approach is qualitative research. It will be student-centered approach in order to better understand this group. The student-centered approaches allow the collection of descriptions of their activities, capturing the feelings and needs of the students, as well as information about these experiences
Anna Luxné Prehoda
PhD, Pázmány Péter Catholic University / Eötvös Loránd University
Remembering and Trauma. A Sociological View of the Hungarian Red Sludge Disaster
I would like to represent a sociological view of the Hungarian red sludge disaster. The catastrophe happened on 4th October, 2010 in the area of Ajka, and now it is termed as “an industrial disaster with the biggest ecological upshots in Hungary”. My analysis is current, because there are no other published results of sociological researches about the disaster, as yet.
My project is a comparative analysis between two periods of qualitative research. The first stage of the asking happened between 12th and 27th November, 2010, not long after the case. The second stage is going to be organised in the middle of August, 2013. In my presentation I am trying to answer the question: How the memory of disaster appears in the life story of the aggrieved women in the two stages of my research? To spotlight the differences between the results of two researching waves, I am going to use the same factors of analysis as in the first stage of the research in 2010: where is the narrative of catastrophe located in the whole life story; what are the identity and the ordinal of values like after the disaster; which mode is used by the aggrieved people to restitute the order of the normal way of living.
Bence Makkay
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
The United States’ pivot to Asia and its implications for the U.S.-China relations and their foreign policy
The Asia-Pacific region is the fastest-growing economic region in the world and a key driver of global politics. According to analysts, the first Obama administration has promoted the “pivot to Asia” because of its concern about the growing economic and military power of China and of course, because of U.S. economic and strategic interests. To move out of its economic slowdown, Asian trade is critical for the United States to the recovery. In the next few years, no other region will have its share of global power grow as much as the Asia-Pacific region. As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “the future of geopolitics will be decided in Asia…, and the United States should be right at the center of the action.” My presentation will be about the possible effects and results of the policy of “pivot to Asia”, and I would also like to introduce those factors and interests, which probably will affect the policy of these two countries.
Alicija Malevska
PhD, Jagiellonian University
Inhabitants of borderland – case of Poles living in the Vilnius Region
The topic of my presentation is national minorities living in the borderlands. In many regions of Europe we have multicultural societies including historical national or ethnical minorities and a growing number of migrants. It is extremely important to understand the phenomenon of borderlands and identity of their inhabitants.
In my paper borderlands are understood both in a territorial and historical, but most of all in a cultural sense. The study focuses mostly on the complex identity of groups inhabiting multicultural territories. The key part of an analysis of factors that currently shape the group identity of Poles living in the Vilnius Region. Among the analyzed factors and indices correlated with them are: political identity, attachment to living area, religion, knowledge of the polish language, quality of education, polish media, participation in cultural life. Another important issue is political activity of this minority, which after the last parliamentary elections managed to enter the ruling coalition.
Lilla Márkus, Ágnes Őze
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Mother–infant interactions at the developmental onset of intentionality
In this paper we present our research on the characteristics of triadic interactions occurring between mother, infant and objects at the developmental onset of intentionality between 9-12 months. In our cross-sectional study, we administered the Play Situation Procedure (Hámori, 2005) to 36 typically developing 8-13 months children and their mothers.
Our research questions were: 1) How does the degree of difficulty of the toys' functions affect the mother-child interaction patterns and 2) the occurance of the mother’s ostensive communication (Csibra, Gergely, 2007) and 3) how does the occurance of maternal ostensive communication influence the quality of mother-child interaction. In order to analyze the videotaped interactions we developed our own coding system in which child, maternal and dyadic behaviors were evaluated.
According to our main results the level of the difficulty of the toy's function correlated with the occurance of maternal ostensive communications. The more difficult the toy was, the more the mother used "natural pedagogy" behaviors. In addition, the parental marked communication positively influenced the emotional climate of the mother-infant interaction. Furthermore we found that relation between maternal and child’s emotions was independent from the difficulty of the toys' functions.
Our results can contribute to intervention methods which place mother-infant playing in the focus of planning early developmental programmes.
Yura Martynovych
BA, Ukrainian Catholic University
Memory as a psychological phenomenon of time. “Moments of time”. A “single memory” and a “common memory”. Difference between “verbal-logical memory” and “visual memory” in understanding of history
My presentation is (or correctly hope will be) about such word as “memory” and my ideas (certainly with thoughts of other scholars) about it. What are memory and such things as “moments of time” (or neuropsychological engrams)? How deeply we can speak about memory in understanding of our own, personal, single past and why and where exist this common memory? How do they relate to each other and why so often mixed making not exist problems for thinking subject? So, I will speak about memory process from three related item: some kind of psychoanalysis (psychology), some kind of solipsism (philosophy), and some kind of presentism (history). Also my narrative will be about epistemological problems of any research particularly in verbal-logical memory (specifically text questions in history). One more important issues will be about “meme” in present that we thing come from past to our memory. And of course I will speak about advantages and disadvantages of visual memory (in examples of cinematography) and how to use or not use it in the production of meme-histories.
Jasper Müllner
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Technocratic governance in Italy
During the era of the 2nd Republic, in 2011, the crisis ridden Italy needed a non-democratic change of government for the third time. Power was given to a technocratic group again. Technocratic governments always have to face enormous problems as their task is to reconstruct the country's economy before the forthcoming elections. These three governments came into power in entirely different circumstances. In 1993 an economic crisis, while in the case of Berlusconi's first term, internal tensions led to the fall of the elected government. Then, in 2011 Mario Monti had to reduce state debt that was the consequence of the overspending back in the 1980s.
How these technocratic measures affected Italian society and party preferences? How coalitions got reorganized for the coming elections and to what extent did the acts of technocratic governments affect this process? The aim of this presentation is to answer such questions and help us understand technocratic governments a little bit more.
Agnieszka Nadzieja-Maziarz
MA, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Educational predisposition of teenagers’ social adaptation in the light of selected personality models
Social adaptation is determined by upbringing that escorts the human during the whole of his/her life, and particularly in adolescence.
The performance includes the analysis of the problem of the teenagers’ social adjustment in perspective of educational conditioning, on the basis of the selected models of personality, such as: the personality’s model in the apprehension of G. Allport, C. Rogers, the personality’s model of self-realization A. Maslow, the model of personality’s development and its disorders of E. Erikson and the model of “personality’s vector” by Cz. Czapów. Moreover, the speech consists of the reference to the model of immature personality by R. Hare and D. Schalling. The whole performance ends with the summary and the deductions.
Dorota Niedziałkowska
PhD, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
A Comparative Study of Polish and Hungarian XXth Century Avant-Garde. Literature and Art. Selected Issues
The paper will consider common trends in Polish and Hungarian XXth Century Avant-Garde with a reference to the modernism period across Europe. In particular it will present a simultaneous experiment in the writing of Stanisław Czycz (1929-1996), almost unknown Polish poet and novelist. Czycz was an innovator who tried to break linearity of narration. He devised and developed his own original technique of a simultaneous notation for poems, then, he tried to apply it in novels and in a radical form – in a film screenplay. Artistic problems which intrigued Czycz were as complex and advanced as the ones which fascinated Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound. Czycz’s oeuvre is a starting point for looking for similar attempts in the Hungarian Avant-Garde literature and art: futuristic and cubist painting (eg. Hugó Scheiber, Alfred Reth), postmodern novels, concrete poets (eg. Lajos Kassak, Tibor Papp, Balint Szombathy). Presentation will be based on my recently submitted Ph.D. thesis on Czycz as a writer.
Anna Niewiadomy
PhD, Catholic University of Lublin
Sociosemiotic view on social communication
The purpose of my speech is to present the theory of social semiotics, which combines semiotics and sociological thinking. Social semiotics focuses on the analysis of the communication process, as seen from the perspective of semiotic resources, which constitute a new terminological and theoretical proposal replacing the sign. Resources in the form of words, social phenomena, and things are being created constantly, interpreted and processed by the individual in the process of semiosis. All things, present in the social environment, are in fact attributed to socially produced meanings that are then read by other participants in the communication process. Interpersonal communication does not occur only with the language in the form of speech and writing, but also with the image, color, dress, or touch. For example, the individual communicates to others its own identity with the body, clothes, hair, or the color of objects that accompany his or her every day. We can also observe very interesting relationship between word and image, which affects many spheres of social life nowadays.
Martin Nosál
PhD, The Catholic University in Ružomberok
Gadamer´s reading of platonic mimésis
My presentation offers a view on Gadamer´s reading of platonic mimésis in the case of work of art. It works on two levels: approaching specific Gadamer´s way this author treats any philosophical tradition and showing importance and relevance of mimésis concept even within character of contemporary art. The aim of my presentation is to reveal mimetic relation as a constantly present structure in experience of work of art concerning specific frame of Gadamer´s hermeneutics.
Ilona Anna Pomian-Czerniakowska
PhD, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Graphic Design in Drama on the Example of “Les Epiphanies” by Henri Pichette
Since the antiquity, there has been a very complex and dynamically changing relation between language in the written form and image. A very illustrative example of language and image coming very close to each other seems to be hieroglyphic writing where pictures would actually reflect spoken language. Later, this relation waned. Nowadays, most of alphabets barely retain picture-like character and certainly do not consist of pictures. Still, if one looks at literature, it becomes clear that some authors do employ pictures as a supplement to language they use in their works. In the antiquity, authors would take apply the technique known by the name of technopaegnia where a given author would shape versification so that verses would form images, for example the poem by Simiasz of Rhodes titled “Ax.”
This ongoing relation between written language and picture appears in many epoqués across the centuries. One of the most interesting 20th-century authors who played with the graphic design of his text was Henri Pichette. In one of his plays titled “Les Epiphanies,” he employed many graphic innovations which I would like to examine in the current presentation.
Janna Loes Pouwels
MSc, Radboud University Nijmegen
An interpretation bias among victims, bullies and bully-victims: The perception of bullying in interactions between humans, animals and geometric figures.
Previous research has shown associations between internalizing and externalizing symptoms and the interpretation of social situations. This study aims to elucidate how different bullying roles (victims, bullies, bully-victims) are associated with a bias in the perception of bullying in social interactions, and whether this bias could be generalized to more abstract situations. Therefore, 395 children (grades 4,5,6) completed self-report measures on victimization and bullying. In addition, children rated positive, negative and ambiguous video fragments of interactions between humans, animals and geometric figures as bullying. Results showed that bully-victims rated positive animal fragments, and all ambiguous fragments (generalized over level of abstraction) higher as bullying than victims and non-involved children, whereas bullies did not differ signficantly from either group. Differences between victims and bully-victims and implication of the results will be discussed.
Katarzyna Puchała
PhD, John Poul II Catholic University of Lublin
From the Polish Theatrical Thought: On the Antinomial Theatre of Jerzy Braun.
Jerzy Braun is fascinating person of 20th century literature, movie and politics. Since 1928 he was propagator and follower of messianic philosophy of great 20th century philosopher and mathematician Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński. This fascination of philosophy gave birth to lot of Braun’s writings. Among them should be mentioned the idea of antinomial theatre.
In my essay I would like to show the concept of Braun’s theatre, whom literary and political activity resulted in foundation of Rhapsodic Theatre (which one of actors was Karol Wojtyła). Braun’s plays are particular realization of antinomial theatre. Based on examples, I will try to show realization of individual “commandments” of antinomial drama not only in works of the author, but also romantic, modern and 20th century dramas. I will compare Braun’s theatre thought with European vanguard thought and try to find connection with other 20th century drama writers’ concept of theatre.
Milosz Puczydlowski
PhD, Jagiellonian University
Three Explication of a Secular
The aim of my paper is to discuss three explications of 'a secular' in a modern philosophical and sociological debate. The analysis will start with unfolding some historical roots of the term. The historical process of secularization should be presented as an alleged expropriation of the ecclesiastical property. Then, three various explications of the term will be introduced. The first of them is the comprehension of 'a secular' as the process of secularization. The second explication is the ideological project of laïcité. The third explication will focus on 'a secular' as a general precondition determining a cultural and philosophical picture of Europe nowadays. The paper will end with an essaying on reformulating some presented perspectives by underscoring the importance of conflictual culture and denominational differences.
Uladzimir Radzko
BA, Ukrainian Catholic University
The Experience of the Absence of God according to St John of the Cross
A lot of Christians sometimes do not hear the God. They pray to Him, but do not feel His presence. St John of the Cross in two his books The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night describe this experience as a purification of human soul to see the light of God. He uses the image of night to describe this aspect of Christian life, because it is not matter how dark is night because after even the darkest night the sunrise is coming. And this meeting with sunrise is the moment when the soul after the night of purification can see God.
This presentation will be concentrated on the book of St John of the Cross The Dark Night which describe the passive night of the spirit.
Emilie Richard
PhD, University of Poitiers
Foresight in Planning and Public Policy
Men have always wanted to predict the future of the world. To be able to understand changes they will live but also to find a place in the middle of these new kinds of territories that appear in the world landscape. Faced to this men's ambition, foresight in planning field has grown. Science of men of the future according to Gaston Berger, it can be defined as a reflection which illuminates the present actions in the light of possible futures. In its general acceptance, foresight in planning studies tries to answer two elementary and interconnected questions: What will happen through our territories ? What can we do about that ? By using various fields such as urbanism, demography and sustainable development, foresight in planning sheds light on the decisions that territorial actors could take in the present time to manage cities of tomorrow in the best possible way regarding homes, transportation systems and urban amenities. This precious tool for urban planners seems particularly relevant in an enigmatic global context (climate change, diminishing fossil energies resources).
Omar Saldaña
MA, University of Barcelona
Delimitation and Assessment of Psychological Abuse in Group Contexts
The study of psychological abuse in group contexts from an empirical and rigorous perspective is quiterecent. Both the delimitation of the construct and the existing instruments intended to assess psychological abuse still have certain limitations. The first aim of this work is to present a new taxonomy of psychological abuse strategies exerted in manipulative groups, which were classified into six categories. This taxonomy was developed from an extensive literature review and was validated through a Delphi study with 31 experts. The second aim is to present the Psychological Abuse Exerted in Groups Scale (EAPA-G), a new instrument intended to assess the severity of the psychological abuse strategies exerted on a person in a particular group context. The EAPA-G is composed of 31 items on a 5-point Likert scale that represent the six categories listed in the taxonomy. It was administered to a sample comprising 116 English-speaking people self-identified as former members of various abusive groups. The EAPA-G showed adequate psychometric properties in terms of reliability and validity and is proposed as a useful instrument to measure psychological abuse perpetrated by manipulative groups.
Kathrin Schuck
PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen
Effectiveness of proactive quitline counseling in smoking parents recruited through primary schools: Results of a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Smoking parents represent a substantial subgroup, accounting for 20-40% of adult smokers. Tobacco smoking is detrimental, not only to the parent, but also to the child. This study tested the effectiveness of a novel method for helping smoking parents to quit: proactive school-based recruitment combined with proactive delivery of quitline counseling.
METHODS: Smoking parents were recruited into a randomized controlled trial through primary schools and received either quitline counseling (n=256) or a standard self-help brochure (n=256). Assessments were at baseline, three months after start of the intervention (post-measurement), and twelve months after start of the intervention (follow-up measurement). We examined treatment effects as well as predictors of treatment outcome.
RESULTS: Parents who received quitline counseling were significantly more likely to report point prevalence at 3-months assessment,point prevalence at 12-months assessment, and prolonged abstinence at 12-months assessment. Additional treatment outcomes and treatment moderators will be presented. CONCLUSIONS: Proactive recruitment of smoking parents through primary schools and proactive delivery of quitline counseling is an effective method for helping smoking parents to quit and for promoting parenting practices to protect children from the adverse effects of smoking.
Pawel Sendyka
PhD, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Modern myth building after the 2010 presidential air crash
In 2010, president of Poland Lech Kaczynski died in an air crash near Smolensk in Russia. The image of the dead president, as portrayed by the media, has changed the moment this disaster struck. From a much disliked figure with a very low public support he was transformed into a hero. This paper examines his biography, as retold after the crash, and compares it against Joseph Campbell's benchmark of hero's journey: “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. The paper also examines how the myth building is augmented by other means, such as the use of places of special national significance (the Wawel royal castle and Jasna Góra monastery) in the ceremonies after the crash.
Gabriela Spatinova
PhD, Catholic University in Ruzomberok
Caricature versus freedom of expression in print media
The task of this text is to research relationship between Freedom of expression and caricature as a specific type of journalistic genre. In selected contribution it tries to find conformity between Freedom of expression and Right of publicity. The article indicates to specific position of caricature, its definition and also its rank in structure of journalistic genre. Right of publicity is analyzed on the examples of selected national and international judicial decisions. Analyze is filled in with public discussion about topic and also with attitudes of authority from journalistic and social life.
Michiel Swinkels
PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen
How policy is made. An ethnographic network analysis of integration policymaking in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
In many West European countries, political reactions to immigrants and their integration have seen a convergence towards intense political debates and increasingly restrictive policies during the last decade. Many studies focus on these developments, but what lacks is a detailed empirical reconstruction of how a policy is formed in the interplay between different actors, structures and ideas. The focus of this PhD project is on integration policymaking in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The aim is to ethnographically map the policy networks of the various actors that are involved in policymaking, in order to disentangle the structures and processes that shape policies. Following the process through which policy is made allows for an understanding of political change. It clarifies how public policy is made and elucidates the power relations and interactions that underlie this process. Moreover, the relation between the political realm and the larger society is made clear.
Anna Smywińska-Pohl
PhD, Jagiellonian University
First women students from Jagiellonian University who were dealing with a strict philosophy
I would like to acquaint to you biographies and achievement of first women students who were dealing with a strict philosophy at Jagiellonian University before II World War, but the history of women who studied at JU starts from Nawojka in XV century.
Women in the Polish lands were not formally allowed to enter the university until the late nineteenth century. In 1897 the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University as the first officially opened their lecture halls to women students. In the years 1897-1939 29 women made doctoral dissertations (old type) of the strict philosophy, 25 of them received doctorate at Jagiellonian University, 4 women moved to Vienna, where 3 of them received a Ph.D. More than 30% of them were Jewish.
I want to present biographies of women who have received a doctoral degree and who are important for our history, philosophy and culture: Stefania Tatarówna, Jadwiga Szmydt, Zofia Włodek de Goetz-Okocimska, Debora Vogel.
Alessandro Tedesco
PhD, Univeristà Degli Studi Di Udine / Università Cattolica del Santo Cuore, Milano
The role and work of the polygraph Ludovico Domenichi in the printing houses of Venice and Florence during the sixteenth century
The lecture aims to retrace the editorial activity of Ludovico Domenichi (1515-1564), polygraph active between Venice and Florence in different printing houses. The discussion will be based on research conducted on the “production” and bibliography of Domenichi during the PhD. Domenichi had a large role in the cultural production of the sixteenth century: he translated many classical texts (latin and greek) in italian language, he edited many books written by other authors and also he wrote a number of works. His work on the texts contributed to the success of the printing houses for which he worked. A study of his role in the printing houses gives a significant sight into the editorial production of the sixteenth century. The speech will focus on the modus operandi of the writer and editor of different kind of texts Ludovico Domenichi: the way he translated classical texts and the way he edited the texts (in relation with the production activity in the printing houses), in order to define the “grammar” of the publishing editor.
Lukáš Tkáč
PhD, The Catholic University in Ružomberok
The issue research of medieval settlement of Slovakia
The present contribution deals with the issue research of medieval settlement of Slovakia, to bring research methodology. The contribution is trying to present research of medieval settlement, with help of historical method, based on written sources, but also aims to highlight the possibilities of other disciplines in the research. It focuses particularly on the use of knowledge fields of linguistics, archeology, ethnography, art history and geography. One researcher understandably may not be an expert in all of the above sciences and therefore I try to point out the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research of medieval settlement.
Liliána Turbán
The quality of sibling relationships of children with ADHD
MSc student, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
We investigated the sibling relationships of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and compared it with the sibling relationships of normal children. Children aged between 8-12 participated in the study (N=60), 30 of them with ADHD. We used the “People In My Life” test (Ridenour et al, 2006), which is a self-report measurement of the quality of the children’s attachments to important people (parents and siblings). On the other hand, we used projective drawing tests: the children drew family drawings and kinetic family drawings. According to our results, there was a significant difference between the groups: we found a more trustful relationship with the parents and siblings in the control group. The relative age and the number of the siblings had some effects on the quality of relationships as well but this effect was different in the groups: in ADHD group the middle children and children having only one sibling seemed to have the most balanced relationship with their siblings. In ADHD group, we could find more signs of conflicts and rivalry on the drawings than in the control group. But, in summary, we can find ambivalent emotions to their siblings – beside the conflicts love and affection appear.
Natale Vacalebre
PhD, Univeristà Degli Studi Di Udine / Università Cattolica del Santo Cuore, Milano
The library of the Jesuit college of Perugia. History and catalogue (1565-1773)
The project aims to investigate the historical events of the library of the Jesuit College of Perugia, one of the oldest educational institutions of the Society of Jesus. Founded in 1552, the college had soon a own library, whose first records date back to 1565. In that year it was drafted the first inventory of the library collection of Perugia. Through archival documents preserved in the Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu of Rome, in the State Archive of Perugia and in others city archives it will be possible to reconstruct the history of the library. The project aims to reconstruct also the history of its function in relation to the college and the city, framing the events of the library in a broader picture of the history of Italian Jesuit libraries. Through the study of the ancient catalogues and books held at the Augusta Library of Perugia after the suppression of the Societas Jesu in 1773, it will be possible to create an analytical catalogue of the old Jesuit library.
Joan Van Geel
MSc, Radboud University
Reshaping security in times of crisis: African migrants in Athens
While Greece is facing a severe economic crisis which profoundly affects Greek citizens, approximately 90% of all immigrants cross Greek borders in their attempt to reach Europe. Most immigrants hold a strong desire to transit Greece in order to reach Northern European countries. European law and treacly Greek bureaucracy, however, frustrate these desires and cause many to be stuck in Greece. The financial situation of Greek citizens, their distrust towards their politicians and personal difficulties are a fruitful ground for (indeed) rising anti-immigrant sentiments. Moreover, African immigrants' perspective on Greek society as a temporary place of residence, does not contribute to their efforts to adapt themselves to the extent Greeks would like to see. The rising amount of racist attacks and intensified harassment by the police contribute to a declining sentiment of security. In my presentation I will outline the diverse coping strategies that are developed by African immigrants in Athens, to approach an elementary level of security and how this influences their aspirations.
Linda van Loon
MA, Radboud University Nijmegen
Risk of Children with COPMI Parents
Children of parents with a mental illness are often found to be at high risk of developing psychological problems themselves. Little is known about the role of family factors in the relationship between parental and adolescent mental health. This cross-sectional questionnaire study included 124 families with a mentally ill parent and 127 families without a mentally ill parent who at the time of the study had children aged 11 to 16 years old. Parents completed questionnaires about their mental health, parent-child interaction (i.e., parental support and parental monitoring), and family environment (i.e., cohesion, expressiveness, and conflict). Adolescents reported their internalizing and externalizing problems. Path analyses were used to examine the direct associations between parental mental illness and adolescent problems as well as the indirect relations via parent-child interaction and family environment. The results showed that interaction between parents with a mental illness and their child was significantly worse compared to parents without a mental illness. The family environment of parents with mental illness was also more negative. Mentally ill parents monitored their adolescents less, which in turn related to more externalizing problems of the adolescents. These findings imply that parental monitoring should be a focus of interventions designed to prevent adolescents with a mentally ill parent from developing problems.
Annamária Végvári
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Specific attachment marks among anorexia nervosa sufferers
The connection between anorexia nervosa and the family relations is already a well known phenomena. According to previous studies the anorexic children have attachment problems and the mother-child relationship can be patological. In my present study I have examined an adolescence female population in a child clinic (aged between 13-18) who suffer from anorexia nervosa. I assume that girls who suffers from anorexia nervosa will be have mostly avoidant and anxious attachment style and they more likely perceive their mothers overcontrolling and the father is not in a central role. Based on former projective test results I assume that the anorexic girls perceive their relationship with the mother as a symbiosys. I expect specific marks in the projective methods that typical among anorexia nervosa sufferers. To testing my hypothesises I used projective methodes (Bird’s Nest Drawing, Baby Videos) and PBI (Parental Bounding Instrument) and ASQ (Attachment Styles Questionnaire).
Ágnes Ilona Veres
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
USA’s Pakistan Policy
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Renáta Világos, Julia Horváth
MA, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Relation of emotional responses induced by autobiographical narratives to early maladaptive schemas in patients with psychiatric disorders
Background. Emotions induced by autobiographical narratives are influenced by the nature of the memory-evoking narrative. Early maladaptive schemas systematically distort perception and influence the experience induced by recalling life memories in a negative way.
Hypotheses. The pattern of emotional responses to various episodes of life narrative will differ from each other regarding valence, arousal level and agency. Persons with higher scores on the maladaptive schema domain are assumed to give more negative emotional responses to narratives.
Method. The sample included 41 psychiatric patients suffering from depression or borderline personality disorder. Narrative identity was assessed by autobiographical interview. Emotional responses were measured by the Manikin test. For the assessment of maladaptive schemas, the Young Schema Questionnaire was used. Data were evaluated by repeated measures variance analysis and correlation analysis.
Results. Findings support the hypothesis that patterns of emotional responses evoked by episodes of life narrative would be different. „Peak experience” memories, for instance, induced more positive emotions than any other memory, while „nadir experience” memories resulted in the most intense feelings of sadness, excitement and inferiority. Persons with higher scores on the maladaptive schema domain generally reported more intense feelings of sadness, excitement and inferiority. Furthermore, a connection was found between effects induced by various types of narratives and specific domains of maladaptive schemas.
Discussion. The results, in accordance with our expectations, show that the type of a recalled memory determines the nature of the induced response, and that individual maladaptive schemas modify this effect in a differentiated way.
Janine Christin Weeting
MA, Radboud University Nijmegen
Approach-Avoidance Tendencies towards Dominant and Submissive Emotional Faces in Social Anxiety
Socially anxious individuals were found to automatically avoid social cues such as emotional facial expressions (EFEs), that convey feedback about other peoples' reactions to them. Avoiding these cues is problematic: it prevents them to experience positive feedback from others that would disconfirm their fears of being disliked. A factor that may influence avoidance of EFEs is perceived dominance and submissiveness in social situations. Therefore the present study investigates whether submissiveness and dominance cause different approach- avoidance tendencies towards EFEs in high and low socially anxious individuals. Pictures of dominant and submissive emotional faces (happy, angry, neutral) are used in an approach- avoidance task (AAT). In line with the existing literature it is expected that HSAs show stronger avoidance of angry faces compared to LSAs. Moreover, HSAs, but not LSAs show avoidance for happy faces. Most crucially, this difference only occurs for dominant but not for submissive happy faces.
Nicole Wiederroth
PhD, University of Duisburg-Essen
Forging Unity - The South African Union Unity Truth Service during World War II
After the declaration of war on Germany in September 1939 the South African government faced a strong opposition to its new policy. Besides, it was confronted with resistance to the repressive policy of segregation. Despite the existing inequalities within the society, officially South Africa was fighting for freedom and democracy. Due to the division of the society and due to so-called subversive activites in general, the government introduced propaganda to relieve tensions and gain support for their political direction.
My research is on this (counter-)propaganda the South African government initiated during the Second World War. The presentation is focussing on the Union Unity Truth Service (UUTS) which was - together with the Bureau of Information (BoI) - in charge of propaganda for the white population. My aim is to give a description of the history of the UUTS as well as to illustrate the conceptions and implementations of its propaganda. Thematically and methodically the project is attributed to history, cultural, and media studies.
Marieke Winkler
PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen
The Literary Critic as Scholar – How the relation between the academic and the public discourse on literature can contribute to the practical self-understanding of the Humanities’ scholar
From the moment that the Humanities in the 18th century became an independent academic institution the discussion on the scientific status of the Humanities is at the centre of its practice. How should we study the ‘unique’ and ‘subjective’ in an objective way? This lecture will take the developments in the academic study of literature in the Netherlands during the explosive sixties and seventies as a case to further understand the way in which scientific values of the Humanities are evaluated and carried out, i.e. not in relation to the Natural Sciences –as is traditionally done– but in relation to the public discourse of that time. How can we analyze academic notions such as objectivity versus subjectivity, controllability of data versus uncontrollability of data when looking at the relation between the academic and the public discourse on literature? Hence this research focuses on the way the literary scholar positions himself explicitly as a ‘scholar’ at a certain place and time.
Adam Żaliński
PhD, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Multiple approaches to ethnic identity – the case of Lemkos of the Carpathian Mountains
Contemporary Europe is facing an issue of growing ethnic unrest. The Iberian Peninsula, the British Isles, the Balkans, the Carpathian Mountains are among regions in which strong national or ethnic identities are emerging. Those processes are happening at present and in vivo. Lemkos, being part of a larger Rusyn group, inhabited originally south-eastern Poland, are restoring their culture. Ethnic identity in case of Lemkos can be analysed by means of multiple approaches like primordialism, constructivism and instrumentalism. The aim of the paper is to address the phenomenon of Lemko ethnicity from different perspectives in an effort to build a complex view of the problem. To achieve this an extensive survey of literature and additional field studies were conducted.
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[1] see Brink, Cornelia 1998: 43 f.
[2] Jaspers, Karl 1986: 149.
[3] see ibid.: 1986: 134.
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