Personal details

Name: Sonya Kaneva

Contact address:
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Philosophical Research
6, Patriarch Evhtimi blvd.
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

Telephone number: 359-2-981 07 91

E-mail: stkaneva@abv.bg

Education

Area of scientific research: aesthetics, cultural studies, African studies.

Degrees and academic ranks:

1974
Graduated Philosophy at the Philosophy Faculty of Sofia
University "St. Cl. Ochridski" - MA in Philosophy and
Sociology

1981
Doctoral Thesis at the Sofia University under the supervision
of Prof DSc Isaac Passi - Department of Aesthetics, Ethics and
Logic, Theme- Art and Politics, PhD in 1981;

1975- 1990
Editor, Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Art, Novo Vreme
Theoretical Magazine

1990 -1996
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical
Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1996 - till now
Head of the Department of Aesthetics at the Institute for
Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1999 - till now
Scientific Secretary of the Institute for Philosophical Research,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Attainment of academic ranks:

Ph.D. degree
Doctoral Thesis at the Sofia University under the supervision
of Prof DSc Isaac Passi - Department of Aesthetics, Ethics and
Logic, Theme- Art and Politics

Specializations

1976-1977
British Council Scholarship - London;
Theme: Contemporary Theatre

1978 Salzburg
Theme: Culture and Society

1981 Salzburg
Theme: Modern Theatre and Society

1990 Lagos University - Nigeria, Jos University - Nigeria
Theme: African Culture and Art

MA degree Philosophy Faculty of Sofia University "St. Cl. Ochridski" - MA
in Philosophy and Sociology

Practical experience

Scientific posts:

1975- 1990
Editor, Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Art, Novo Vreme
Theoretical Magazine

1990 -1996
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1996 - till now
Head of the Department of Aesthetics at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1999 - till now
Scientific Secretary of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Training of specialists:
2001- 2004 -Supervising 2 PhD students at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Aesthetics Department.

Expert and consulting activity:
Expert - Bulgarian State Accreditation Commission
Expert - Bulgarian Fund for Scientific Research at the Ministry of Education and Science
Participacipation in the work of state or government authorities.
Participacipation in national and international scientific councils and commissions; consulting activity.

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Academic activities

Participation in schools and conferences:

1995-1998 - Aesthetics, Art, Artist -19/20 Century- Coordinator
1999 - Cultural Experience, Month of the European Culture-Plovdiv`99
1998-2001 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Philosophical Research Bulgarian Culture at the Dawn of the New Century - Coordinator
2000, 2002- 21st ,22nd Varna International Philosophical School - Coordinator

Publications list: (Selected):

Books:
Art and Politics, Partizdat, Sofia, 1984, 275 pp.

Treasures of the Ancient Cultures in Black Africa, UBJ, Sofia, 1986, 150 pp.

Experimentalism and Postmodernism. Aesthetic Dilemmas, EON-2000, Sofia, 149 pp

Scientific Articles:

The Artistic Experiment in Panorama, Sofia, 1987/ 6

The Aesthetic Paradoxes of the Neo-Avangarde, in Novo Vreme,
1985/8

Mass Culture as a Social, Ideological and Cultural Phenomenon, in
Novo Vreme/1989/11,

Art and Politics in Art,Ideology, Personality, Sofia, Narodna Mladezh,
1990; pp. 30 - 49;

The Neo-Avangarde: Ideological and Aesthetical Passions in
Art,Ideology, Personality, Sofia, 1990; pp. 129-142;

Paradoxes of Post-Modernism, in Philosophical Alternatives
/3- 4/, 1992 p.120-137;

Aesthetic Dimensions of the Cultural Experience at the End of the
Century, in Cultural Experience at the End of the Millennium, 1999,
Sofia, pp13-26;

Under the Sign of Illusive Predestination, Sofia, IUSB, 2000,
pp378- 385;

Cultural Identity and Art, in Philosophy between Two Centuries,
Sofia -IphR, 2001, pp 238-241

 

Translations:

Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf, Otechestvo, Sofia,1981
Farley Mowat, And No Bird Sang, Partizdat, Sofia, 1984
Herbert Marcuze, The Aesthetic Dimensions, Christo Botev, 1994

Languages
English, Russian - fluent

Computer skills
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