Jana Rošker was the chief editor of the special issue of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology (ČKZ), which is dedicated to contemporary China. ČKZ is a well-established Slovenian journal which publishes contributions in social sciences and humanities and which was established in the time of the students protest in the beginning of the eighties by a group of radical students and young intellectuals, aiming to open up a theoretical forum for a science formed in the streams of reflections on the most topical social movements. This 2014 thematic issue of the Journal for the Critique of Science is dealing with the processes that are defining contemporary China from the multidisciplinary point of view. The special issue is entitled China: the Great Leap into Globalization. The complex processes defining contemporary China are mostly conditioned by Chinese modernization and are, at the same time, an integral part of the specific features of Chinese tradition, which is linked to the rigorousness of the official state doctrines and the so-called Confucian ethics. An important aspect of these processes is also connected with strong influences of Western or Euro-American economies, policies, technologies and ideologies that can not be neglected by the new global superpower. The Chinese “neo-colonial” tendencies in Africa and some other, economically “underdeveloped” area also have to be seen in this context. The information, analyses and re-interpretations of the contemporary Chinese social reality that are offered to the readers by this issue, have to a great extent been results of sinological research; their authors, who are mostly members of the program group, are dealing with the subject matter on the basis of their professional education and grounded upon their long lasting living experiences in China. This fact is doubtless contributing to the essential and methodological reliability of the contributions. Besides her editorial work, Jana Rošker has also written the theoretical foreword of the issue and contributed an original article entitled Confucius' New Clothes: Contemporary Chinese Ideologies and the Confucian Revival.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
Andrej Bekeš was the chief organizer of the 14th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies which is described more in detail under 15.2. – Extraordinary socio-economic achievement. Besides his opening speech, he has also delivered the present paper from the field of Chinese linguistics entitled Corpus Based Description of Bracket Structures Information in Japanese Language Dictionaries. It deals with bracket structures, which belong to the most conspicuous features of Japanese language. One aspect of bracket structures, i.e., suppositional adverbs in combination with sentence-final modality forms, has been studied Kudô (2000) as ‘quasi grammatical’ agreement phenomena. Bracket structures can be conceived also as more or less systematically occurring long distance collocations, often carrying some discourse-pragmatic function in addition to semantic one. Nonetheless they are not yet systematically taught as a part of curriculum for learners of Japanese as a second language as has been pointed out in Srdanović et al (2009). Moreover, dictionaries including learners’ dictionaries also lack a systematic description of this phenomenon. In this study we propose a general schema for description of collocation based bracket structures, which could be found in the areas of modality (epistemic: tabun – darou), (deontic: zehi – kudasai), tense and aspect (mou – [shi]ta), etc. While knowledge of bracket structures can be acquired through learners' experience, we argue that explicit teaching of such structures can contribute towards earlier focusing of learners on projection of incoming discourse, both spoken and written. We are basing our description on approaches taken for description of collocations in lexicography.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 55699554Alma Maximiliana Karlin (1889-1950), an adventurer and female traveller around the world (1919-1927) brought back with herself numerous items (ethnologically interesting objects of everyday life, souvenir objects, postcards, photographs etc.). The main part of her legacy is exhibited in the Regional Museum of Celje (PMC), but still awaits closer analysis. This paper analyzes the Japanese part of her legacy. Besides listing all available ethnological items, postcards and photographs, it interprets Karlin's legacy in the light of social and historical background of Japan in the Taishō period (Taishō era: 1912-1026). After her stay in Japan, Karlin also visited Korea and Taiwan which were both under Japanese rule at the time. There occurred the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923. Incidents and social conditions are reflected in the photographs and postcards, and the democracy and liberalism are also felt in individual items. The background and dating of some archived items are verified also in the travel sketches written by Alma Karlin herself and serially published in the local newspaper of her hometown, Celje (Cilli).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 55932258The author was invited to conduct a lecture on Chinese collections in Slovenia at the internationally renowned University of Hong Kong. In addition to the Chinese collections in Slovenia, the lecture also introduced a project of the Department of Asian and African Studies at the Faculty of Arts and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum entitled: “Identification, Categorization and Digitalization of East Asian Art, Historical Collections and Other Materials in Slovenia”. The lecture aroused a great interest among international professional colleagues and general public for the Chinese collections in Slovenia. The lecture firstly briefly introduced the above mentioned project, and continued with introduction of background of different Chinese art collections, gathered by missionaries, travellers, officers and others and brought to Slovenia during the past centuries, mainly in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th centuries. It further presented in details two relevant collections: 1. Collection of a missionary Peter Baptist Turk, who at the beginning of the 20th century collected mainly Buddhist statutes and other religious objects. 2. Collection of Ivan Skusek Jr., whose collection of ca. 500 mostly Chinese art objects is the biggest collection of Chinese artworks in Slovenia. It includes valuable court furniture, richly embroidered clothes and embroidery, Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist statues, porcelain wares, paintings, ancient coins, instruments, an album of old Beijing photographs, a detailed academic research book on architecture and its decoration of Forbidden city, published by Tokyo Imperial University in 1906, and many other valuable objects.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 55123810The article is founded on the key-note address by the author at the international conference on nursing in public health, in Izola, on 31. January 2014. The article firstly introduces mindfulness, its aims, ethical foundations and main methods, and outlines the outcomes of current research of mindfulness, specifically in modern therapeutic context, focusing on nursing in public health. Then it explores practical methods of mindfulness that are most suitable for the specific needs of health professionals as well as patients, and indicates directions for future integration of mindfulness as a complementary alternative component of health care. The paper establishes and argues that mindfulness is not only a therapeutic tool but also a preventative method for maintaining mental health, emotional and spiritual well-being and hence, it is a skill that can be learned and applied in everyday life which is relevant for and applicable in most areas of public health.
B.04 Guest lecture
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