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  • 1984-1991: Seminar on Translation of Philosophical Texts at the Department for Foreign Languages of Sofia University.

Among the authors whose texts were translated into Bulgarian are Rene Descartes, J.-G. Leibnitz, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Mounier, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur a.o.

  • 1992 to present: Seminar and International Lectures on Contemporary Philosophy, including:
  1. Presentation of papers and theses of current research projects
  2. The International Lectures on Phenomenology and Post-Phenomenology
  3. Invited Lectures on Contemporary Western Philosophy

Among the Guest Lecturers should be mentioned Roberto Miguelez (Ottawa University), Koula Mellos (Ottawa University), William L. McBride (Purdue University), David Durst (American University of Blagoevgrad), Reinhard Hesse (Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg), Françoise Dastur (Université de Paris-I, Sorbonne), Ludwig Nagl (Universität Wien), Stefan Knoche (Universität Bremen), Susanne Moser, (Universität Wien) a.o.

  • 1992 to present: Master and Doctoral Seminars in Contemporary Philosophy in the Fields of Phenomenology, French Philosophy, Gender Studies.

They includes:

  1. lectures and interpretation of different contemporary philosophical texts
  2. discussions on translation of specific keywords
  3. discussions on the structure and the different parts of the master or doctoral work
  4. work on selected bibliographies

 

  • 1999 to present: Seminar on Values of the Institute for Axiological Research.

The following subjects has been treated:

• "Values and Diversity Managment" (WS 2008 - SS 2009)
• "Values and Intercultural Communication" (WS 2007 - SS 2008)
• "The Value Human Person and Personal Values" (WS 2006 - SS 2007)
• "Choice and Responsibility" (WS 2005 - SS 2006)
• "Interpretation and Values" (WS 2004 - SS 2005)
• " Values in Conflict: Problems and Issues" (WS 2002 - SS 2004)
• "Values and Praxis in the Context of Globalisation" (WS 2001 - SS 2002)
• "European,, national and international Values" (WS 2000 - SS 2001)
• "Philosophy between New and Old Values" (WS 1999 - SS 2000)

Just published:

Yvanka B. Raynova: Être et être libre: Deux «passions» des philosophies phénoménologiques. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010

Yvanka B. Raynova: Between the Said and the Unsaid. In Conversation with Paul Ricoeur. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009.

Yvanka B. Raynova, Vesselin Petrov (eds.): Being and Knowledge in Postmetaphysical Context. Wien: IAF, 2008.

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