Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Jan Polívka, born on 27th of February 1986 in Plzen

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2006-2010: BA., Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Internship

• 2011: ERASMUS Intensive Programme: "Religious Transformations in the Contemporary European Societies II." (Department for the Study of Religions - University od Szeged, 15.8.-29.8.).
  2010: ERASMUS Intensive Programme: "Religious Transformations in the Contemporary European Societies" (Department for the Study of Religions - University od Szeged, 16.8.-29.8.).
  2008-2009: Institut Seni Indonesia, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia (September 2008 - January 2009)
  2007: Department of Comparative Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (October)
  2007: ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions: "Study of Religions in Central Europe" (Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 19.8.-1.9.).

Conferences

• 2012: Workshop "Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion" (The Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA) and the Department for the Study of Religions (Masaryk University), 1.-3.3.).
  2011: 10th EASR conference (European Association for the Study of Religions) "New Movements in Religion: Theories and Trends" (The Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religions, Budapest, Hungary, 18.-22.9.), paper: "Balinese Dances, The True Multicultural Phenomena: Critical review of Clifford Geertz's visions".
  2011: ERASMUS Intensive Programme: "Religious Transformations in the Contemporary European Societies II." (Department for the Study of Religions - University od Szeged, 15.8.-29.8.), paper: "Finding The True Multicultural Phenomena: Balinese Solution".
  2010: ERASMUS Intensive Programme: "Religious Transformations in the Contemporary European Societies" (Department for the Study of Religions - University od Szeged, 16.8.-29.8.), paper: "Band Orlík and Czech National Myth".
  2009: Workshop "Loose Ends in the Cognitive Study of Religion and Culture" (Masaryk University, 6.-7.11.).
  2009: "Religion NOW: 16. Symposium der Studierenden der Religionswissenschaft" (University of Heidelberg, 21.-24.5.), paper: "Dancing with Gods: Contemporary Forms of Balinese Dance".
  2009: Student Conference (Department of Comparative Religions, Comenius University, Bratislava, 18.-20.5.), paper: "Dancing with Gods: Contemporary Forms of Balinese Religious Dance and Possibilities of their study".
  2008: Workshop "Religion and Cognition in Context" (University of Aarhus, 31.5-1.6.)
  2008: "Religious Ritual, Cognition and Culture" (University of Aarhus, 28.-30.5.)
  2007: "Civil Religion, Private Spirituality" (the RE-DIAL Association for the Study of Religions & the Department for the Study of Religions - University od Szeged, 26.10.-27.10.), paper: "Pop-icons as “Continuation” the Cult of Saints"
  2007: ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions: "Study of Religions in Central Europe" (Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 19.8.-1.9.), paper: "Midnight Dharma: Diamond Way Buddhism on the Air (Some Remarks to Spreading Tibetan Buddhism on the West)".

2016/12/05

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