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Contact e-mail: biedash @ gmail.com

Research interests

Main Fields: Philosophy and Sociology of Space, Urban Studies, Philosophical Anthropology, Phenomenology, Modern Social Theory.
Main Topics: Performativistic Theory of Space, Place Identity in the Age of Globalization, Urban Life, the Experience of Difference.

Education

2007 to date: preparation of Ph.D. thesis (dedicated to the philosophy and sociology of space).
2004-2007 – MPhil, European Humanities University (Vilnius), Department of Philosophy.
2003-2004 (Minsk): Ph.D. studies at the European Humanities University (MinskVilnius), Department of Philosophy.
1998–2003: European Humanities University (Minsk), Department of Philosophy (diploma with distinction).

Professional experience

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

October 2007 to date: lecturer, BA program “Social and political Philosophy”, European Humanities University (VilniusMinsk).
Courses taught: Philosophical Anthropology; Modern Concepts of Interpersonality; Introduction to Philosophy; Ethics.

October 2005 – July 2006: DL-lecturer, Department of Philosophy, European Humanities University (VilniusMinsk) Courses taught: Ethics, Morality, Politics: Genesis of the Concepts (distance learning course; in cooperation with Alena Sauko).

October 2003 – July 2004: assistant lecturer, Department of Philosophy, European Humanities University (Minsk) Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophy; Introduction to Philosophical Terminology (English).

ADMINISTRATIVE WORK

2008 to date: Administrative director of the ReSET Challenges Seminar “The Practical Turn: Contemporary Philosophy In and Beyond University” (Department of Philosophy, EHU);
2005-2006: Coordinator of the “Youth against HIVAIDS” peer-education project, Belarusian Red Cross (Headquarters), Minsk, Belarus.

Fellowships

October 2006 – July 2007: fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Faculty of Philosophy, Hagen University, Germany
April 2005 – June 2005: fellow of the HESP Mobility Program, Graduate School of the Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Membership in research centers and labs

2002 to date: Member of the Center for Philosophical Anthropology (EHU, Vilnius)
2009 to date: Member of the Critical Urbanism Lab (EHU, Vilnius)

Journals

2008 to date: Scholarly secretary of the journal "Topos".

Participation in international summer schools and projects

2009 to date: ReSET project “Comparative Study of Everyday Life: Current Theoretical Paradigms, Methodological Orientations and Teaching Practices” (Comparative Sociology Chair, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia);

Sept.28 – Oct.11 2008: XII International Summer School in Gender studies “New nationalism: who and how does glorify national states today?” (Foros (Crimea), Ukraine);

2003 – 2005: ReSET project “Contemporary Communicative Philosophy and Communicative Strategies in Philosophy Teaching” (Department of Philosophy, EHU, Minsk).

Selected bibliography

Бедаш Ю.А. Философско-антропологический потенциал герменевтической теории искусства - Материалы Международной научной конференции студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых "Ломоносов-2004", Том 2, - М.: Изд-во МГУ, 2004.

Бедаш Ю.А. О «скрытом родстве» философии и поэзии у М. Хайдеггера – Вызовы современности и философия. Материалы «Круглого стола», посвященного Дню философии ЮНЕСКО. - Бишкек: ОсОО «Дэна», 2004.

Бедаш Ю.А. Этапы осмысления понятия истины в герменевтической феноменологии – Материалы научно-практической конференции «Дни науки’ 2005», Том 46, Философии. - Днепропетровск: «Наука и образование», 2005.

Бедаш Ю.А. Телесное бытие-здесь в эпоху глобализации: феноменология пространства Б. Вальденфельса - Сборник тезисов конференции «Философия в глобальном мире». – Москва: Издательство РУДН, 2005.

Бедаш Ю.А. Пространственная идентичность в эпоху глобализации / Топос №1 (12), 2006, Biedash Y. Place Identity in the Age of Globalization. – Material of International Scientific Conference “The Place of Local Cultures in the Process of Globalisation”. – Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing, 2005.

Бедаш Ю.А. Глобализация и нормативность пространства. Man and the Word. Philosophy. Research papers. Vol. 9, Nr 4. – Vilnius, 2007.

Бедаш Ю.А. Опыт различения и генезис национализма. – Актуальные проблемы гуманитарных и социальных наук: сб. науч. тр. Вып.1. – Вильнюс: ЕГУ, 2007.

Бедаш Ю. А. Пространство как проблема постметафизической философии. \ Топос №1 (21), 2009.

Translations (from German into Russian)

1. Вишке М. Недопустимость возможного: об отношении между научным исследованием и демократическим решением. – Топос№2 (16), Вильнюс, 2007.