Mgr. Silvie Kotherová, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Mgr. Silvie Kotherová, Ph.D.

Department

• Department for the Study of Religions
  Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
  Arne Nováka 1
  Brno
  602 00

Employment - Position

• Research fellow LEVYNA (Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion)

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2008 - 2012: Doctor's degree study, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
• Study of Religions
• Dissertation thesis: Voiceless man with the spoon of honey in his mouth. Analysis and reflection of contemporary Buddhist meditation research from the view of cognitive science of religion.
• 2005 - 2008: Master's degree study, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
• Study of Religions
• MA thesis: Light in the Ocean. Cognitive analysis of selected aspects of meditation techniques in Mahayana Buddhism.
• 2002 - 2005: Bachelor´s degree study, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
• Study of Religions
• BA thesis: Burial ritual and family relationship to the deceased in Roman religion
• 2001 - 2002: Language school with language state exam, Volyně
• 1997 - 2001: Gymnasium, Vimperk

Teaching Activities

• Proseminar for Buddhism I
• Proseminar for Buddhism II
• Buddhism I
• Buddhism II
• Cognitive Study of Religion
• Buddhist Meditation Practice and Research

Scientific and Research Activities

• Scientific and Research Activities
• Cognitive Science of Religion
• Theory and Methodology of Study of religions
• Buddhism
• Meditation techniques
• Alternatives states of consciousness
• Research Grants
• 2009: Dean´s Grant Foundation, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Cognitive research on meditation techniques, alternatives states of consciousness and its possible link to interpretative approaches MUNI/21/KOT/2009
• Conferences
• 2014: "Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after 25 Years" (Brno 20–22 of June), poster: „Meditation makes me sick: Meditation and sensitivity on parasympathetic nervous system stimulation” (Preliminary report), (Kotherová, Cigán, Sepši, Krajčíková, Holická, Jarkovský)
• 2013:IACSR 2013 Berlin Conference on Social Cognition and Religion (Berlin 31.July), poster:„Out of my body. Does meditation practice cause losing of the body sense?”
• 2013: LEVYNA workshop conference “Discussion on education, and changing face of research in the modern world” (Telč 22.-23.March), paper: „Where am I? Does meditation practice cause losing of the body sense? Partial results.”
• 2012: „Methods in the Study of Religion“, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, (Thessaloniki, Greece, 21. – 25.October), paper: „Where am I? Does meditationpractice cause losing of the body sense?”
• 2012: LEVYNA Conference "Homo Experimentalis" (Brno 25. – 27. října), poster: “Where am I? Does meditation practice produce body misperception?“
• 2012: 11th EASR Conference „Ends and Beginnings” (Stockholm 23. - 26. srpna), příspěvek: „Buddhist meditation research at the turn of a new period.”
• 2012: LEVYNA Workshop „Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion” (Brno, Czech Republic 1. - 3. of March), poster: „Where are my legs?”
• 2010: Kognice 2010 „Representation of meaning" (Prague, Czech Republic 16. – 18. of September), paper: “Neurophenology: Is Science possible in second person perspective?”
• 2010: 20. Conference International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) "Religion: A Human Phenomenon"(Toronto, 15 - 21 of August), poster: „Meditation in the Black Box” (Kotherová, Cigán, Reddish)
• 2009: Workshop „Loose Ends in the Cognitive Study of Religion and Culture“ (Brno, Czech Republic, 6. – 7. of September), paper: „Meditation Research with its Back to the Wall”
• 2009: Conference „Meaning in Religion, Cognition and Culture“ (Aarhus, Denmark, 28. – 29. May), paper: “Meaning of Introspection in Buddhist Meditation and Cognition”

Activities Outside University

• 2008: Co-founder of Czech society for cognitive study of culture
• 2009- 2010: Executive Committee Member of Czech society for cognitive study of culture
• Public Lectures
• 2008: „Cognitive research of alternative states of consciousness“ (Czech society for cognitive study of culture), Faculty of Arts Masaryk University, Brno
• Field work
• April - May 2014: Republic of Indonesia, study visit, program: Javanese Buddhism - Borobudur.
• August - September 2013: Republic of Mauritius, field reserch, program: Cross-religious priming.
• March 2011: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, study visit, program: Buddhist temples and monasteries at Srí Lanka.
• April 2009: Socialist Republic of Vietnam, study visit, program: Monasteries of Theravada and Mahayana Tradition.
• March 2007: Kingdom of Thailand, study visit, program: Monasteries of forest tradition of Ajahn Chah.

Major Publications

• KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie. Problematika experimentálního výzkumu buddhistických meditací. Sociální studia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, roč. 12, č. 4, s. 73-93. ISSN 1214-813X. URL info
• KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie a Jan KRÁTKÝ. Teorie vtělené a rozšířené kognice a její význam pro výzkum náboženství. Pantheon: religionistický časopis. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2014, roč. 9, č. 1, s. 188-215. ISSN 1803-2443. info
• KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie. Zpráva z letního kurzu „Experimentální metody ve studiu kognice a kultury“. Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, roč. 2, IX, s. 64-67. ISSN 1214-5351. info
• KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie. Kam odchází Haré Kršna : Apostaze a udržení identity "oddaného" mimo ISKCON. In Individualizace náboženství a identita. Poznámky k současné sociologii náboženství. 1. vyd. Praha: Malvern, 2010, s. 203-229. ISBN 978-80-86702-69-8. info
• KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie. Kognitivní analýza a interpretce aneb Jak (ne)dělat výzkum alternovaných stavů vědomí? Sacra. Brno: Občanské sdružení Sacra, 2010, VIII, s. 46 - 62, 16 s. ISSN 1214-5351. info
• KOTHEROVÁ, Silvie. Jak zkoumat meditaci? Co například kognitivní věda. Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008, VI, č. 2, s. 85 – 98, 13 s. ISSN 1214-5351. info

2014/09/07