Doc. PhDr. Daniela FOBELOVÁ, CSc

e-mail: fobelova@fhv.umb.sk

tel.: 048/ 4465625

 

She joined the Pedagogical Faculty in Banská Bystrica, then a faculty of Forestry and Timber Trade University in Zvolen in 1978, following her university studies at the Philosophical Faculty (PF) of M. V. Lomonosov State University in Moscow, specialising in Philosophy. In 1980 she completed the rigorous process at the PF Comenius University (CU) in Bratislava and in 1984 she completed her postgraduate study leading to CSc. at the PF of M. V. Lomonosov State University in Moscow. In 1988 she started her habilitation process at the PF CU in Bratislava which was reinstated by the FH, MBU in Banská Bystrica in 2002. In 1990-1992 she was engaged in a 4-term innovative postgraduate study in Philosophy completed by the defence of her dissertation at the PF CU in Bratislava. From 1990 to 1998 she was a member of the Department of Philosophical Sciences at MBU. She lectured and conducted seminars in philosophical aesthetics and the history of modern philosophy as a part of the Philosophy specialisation curricula, which she was also an academic guarantor of. She also conducted common core seminars in systematic philosophy and lectured in philosophical and cultural studies subjects for full-time and part-time studies. In the period of the formative years of the DPS at the FH MBU in Banská Bystrica she co-authored major objectives of the department. In the academic years 1994-95 and 1997-98 she supervised two postgraduate students and three doctoral students of the DSLL of the FH MBU in philosophical aesthetics. She also supervised and opposed many Master's Dissertations and Bachelors' final works. In 1995 she was a visiting lecturer at the Protestant Faculty of Theology at CU in Bratislava. She gave a lecture entitled From Mythology to Postmodernism. Since 2000 she has been involved in lecturing tours at the University of Management and Social Affairs in Tychy, Poland, where she has served as a visiting professor, and also at the PI of SU in Katowice, Poland, where she gave a series of lectures on the philosophy of culture. In 1997 she served as a chairman of the FH and MBU Academic Senates, following her post as a Vice-chairman of the FH Academic Senate in 1995-97. Concurrently, she was a member of the MBU Rector's Board, the FH Dean's Board and a member of the editorial board and of the Academic Vice-Dean's Committees. He also held the post of a MBU representative in the Higher Educational Council of Slovak Universities as a member of its executive board. She has also served as an opponent in many habilitation and inauguration committees. In 1998 she lectured at the 20th International Philosophical Congress in Boston, USA. She currently holds the position of Docent, (acknowledged in 2002) at the DEA, the FH, MBU, (established in 1991). Her area of expertise is the field of philosophical-aesthetics, eco-philosophy and cultural studies as well as broader issues of the history of philosophy and ethics. She serves as an academic guarantor of the study specialisation Aesthetic Education. Since 1992 she has been a member of the Permanent Co-ordination Board of the Ministry of Culture for the International Conference entitled Ethics- Ecumenics-Ecology. She is the principal investigator of 7 academic research projects (VEGA) in Slovakia and 3 international research projects (COST and DAAD). Her academic and pedagogical activities include active co - operation with renowned institutions, e. g. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe-Technk und Umwelt Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse Karlsruhe in Germany (FK), the UMSA in Tychy, Poland, the PI of SU in Katowice, Poland and Forschungszenter für angewandte Ethik Universität Salzburg in Austria. In 2003 she took part in a mobility programme (the DAAD project in Germany). She has been a member of the KEGA committee of the ME of the Slovak Republic since 2003.