Vassányi, Miklós

Title: PhD
Gender: M
Year of Birth: 1966
Place of Birth (Country): Hungary
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Office Phone Number: +36-1-483-2906

Doctoral Studies
Year of Doctoral Defence (PhD / CSc): 2007
Discipline: Philosophy
Title of Thesis: Anima mundi. The Rise of the World Soul Theory in German Enlightenment and Early Romanticism, Examined with Respect to the Relation between the Finite and the Infinite. (Promotor: Prof. Dr Martin Moors)
Issuing Institution: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

MA Studies
Year of Obtaining the MA Degree: 1992
Discipline(s): Hungarian Language and Literature – English Language and Literature
Issuing Institution: ELTE University of Budapest

Further Studies and Qualifications

Institution	Qualification	Year of Obtaining the Qualification
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)	MA in Philosophy	2004

Employment
Current Employer: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Institute: Institute of Arts Studies and General Humanities
Department: Department of General Humanities
Current Position(s): Associate Professor, Head of Department, Deputy Dean for Research, Erasmus and Sports Affairs

Other Previous Employers: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Other Previous Positions Held: Assistant (2005-2007)

Previous Employer: ELTE University of Budapest
Previous Position Held: Doctoral scholarship holder (1992-1995)

Areas of Research and Teaching

History of Early Modern and Modern Philosophy (esp. Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Diderot and Schelling)
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion
Early Byzantine Theology (esp. St Denys the Areopagite and St Maximus the Confessor)
Later Greek Neo-Platonism (esp. Proclus)
Johannes Scottus Eriugena
History of Inca, Aztec and Inuit (Eskimo) Religion

Membership in Research Groups and Projects

OTKA (Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research) Research Group K 101503 “The Concepts and Traditions of Mysticism in European Thought” (2012-2015), chief researcher

OTKA (Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research) Research Group K 81278 “Theological Anthropology in Patristics” (April 2010-April 2014), research fellow

Educational Functions, Curriculum Development and Other
Teaching-Related Activities

Period	Function or Activity
2008	Participation in the preparation of the curriculum of the MA-programme in Religious Studies
2012	Coordination of the preparation of the curriculum of the postgraduate degree programme in Christian Ethics

Language Skills

Language	Level and Kind of Proficiency
English	written and oral fluency
French	written and oral fluency
Italian	written and oral fluency
German	conversational level and self-reliant reading skills
Dutch	conversational level and self-reliant reading skills
Spanish	conversational level and self-reliant reading skills
Latin	self-reliant reading skills
Greek	self-reliant reading skills

Honours, Distinctions, and Prizes

Name of Distinction	Issuing Institution	Year of Issuing

Membership in Academic Societies

Name of Organization	Function (if any)
Hungarian Society for Religious Studies (MVT)
Central European Association for Canadian Studies (CEACS)
Deutsch-Ungarische Gesellschaft für Philosophie

Guest Professorships and Research Fellowships in Foreign
Institutions

Period	Institution	Activities
April 2009	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Higher Institute of Philosophy	Erasmus Guest Instructor
December 2012	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Higher Institute of Philosophy	OTKA (Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research) Short Research Trip

Promotorship in Doctoral Studies

Name of Doctoral Student, Institution	Research Topic / Title of Dissertation	Year of Defence (if applicable)
Gergő Horváth, ELTE Doctoral School in Philosophy	Martin Heidegger és a pszichoanalízis. A Dasein-analízis fenomenológiai dimenziói

Opponentship in Doctoral Defences

Name of Doctoral Student, Institution	Title of Dissertation	Year of Defence
Noémi Mária Najbauer, ELTE Doctoral School in English Studies	„The Art of Salvation is but the Art of Memory:” Memory as Art and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne	2010
Veronika Szántó, ELTE Doctoral School in Philosophy	Radical Politics, Natural Philosophy, and Religion in 17th-Century England	2011