Lenart Škof was the main organizator and chair of the programme committe of an international scientific conference organized within the project. Part of the conferece were also other members of the project team (Grušovnik, Motoh, Furlan Štante, Svetlič, Jelnikar, Kersten, Strahovnik, Mlinar). The conferece was inaugrated by the keynote by renowned American philosopher Eduardo Mendieta (chair of Dept of Philosophy, STONY Brook Univ, NY), the closing lecture was held by Clemens Sedmak (professor at King's College). This conference was closely related to the main project theme (nonviolence, peace), and there were 32 panelists from various countries. The result of this conference will be an edited volume, published by Ashgate (UK) in 2016 (under contract).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 54564706Tamara Ditrich was the main organiser and facilitator of the international conference Mindfulness, Education and Transformation, held in Wollongong (Australia), 6– 7 September 2014. She also made the key note address at the conference and presented her recent research in a research paper (to be published in 2015). The presentation outlines the prominent role of mindfulness in many traditional and modern Buddhist meditation practices and the recent process of abstracting mindfulness away from its Buddhist roots. The paper examines how the transplantation of mindfulness into new paradigms gives rise to a number of new issues which requires a closer examination, particularly, whether positioning mindfulness primarily as a tool for achieving improved well-being and happiness reduces the breadth and depth of its application for more deeply investigating ethical behaviour and insights into human consciousness and its potentials.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 55368802Lenart Škof is humanities editor at Annales journal. Dr Škof organized and edited a special thematic unit within the journal, dedicated to the topic of hospitality. Two other members will contribute papers to this unit (dr Jelnikar and dr Strahnovnik). Papers were alredy reviewd in 2014 and will be published in the first journal issue in 2015.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine