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Mareike Smolka (M.H.)

Research profile

Mareike's PhD project is an ethnographic and historical study of different actors' conceptions of "responsibility" and ethical challenges in neuroscientific meditation research. She inserts herself as a participant in various ethnographic sites: in a large-scale neuroscientific meditation research study, so she can engage with researchers and research participants; but also in the religious studies scholarly community, to talk to advocates of different views on how religious studies should interact with cognitive neuroscience; and in the middle of her own meditation community so that she better understands her ethical positioning at the other sites.

Research projects

PhD project "The Meditating Brain in Context: An Exploration of Responsibility and Ethics in Action as an Engaged Ethnographer in Neuroscientific Meditation Research"

Publications

Most recent publications:

  • Smolka, M. (2018). The Meditating Brain in Context: Eliciting Ethical Reflections in Neuroscientific Meditation Research. In Responsible Research & Innovation and Future Making: Responsibility through Anticipation: Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School Donostia-San Sebastián.

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  • Smolka, M. (Author). (2018). “Cosmonaut for a night”: The experiences of a Silver Santé volunteer. Web publication/site, Retrieved from https://silversantestudy.eu/points-of-view/

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  • Smolka, M. (2018). Controversy in the Aesthetics of Religion: When religious studies go cognitive, visions on how to study religions clash. In Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST2018): Meetings: Making Science, Technology and Society Together Lancaster.

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  • Smolka, M. (2018). The meditating brain in context: Eliciting ethical reflections on neuroscientific meditation research. In International Conference on Mindfulness 2018 Amsterdam.

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  • Smolka, M. (2017). Translating between Buddhism and neuroscience: Conceptual differences and similarities in epistemic cultures. Neuroscientific research on Vipassana meditation – a case study. The Self-Journal of Science, [647].

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  • Smolka, M. (2017). Responsibility in neuroscientific cognitive enhancement research. Poster session presented at European Summer Research Institute, Chiemsee, Germany.

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  • Smolka, M. (Author). (2017). Responsibility in the Silver Santé Study means caring for others: Point of view. Web publication/site, www.silversantestudy.eu: .Retrieved from https://silversantestudy.eu/points-of-view/

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  • Smolka, M. (2017). Territories of Critique in Psychology: Lübeck Colloquium on Psychological Humanities. H-Soz-Kult.

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M.H. Smolka

Education-/Research Officer
PhD student Junior Teaching Fellow
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University College Maastricht
m​.​smolka​@​​maastricht​university​.​nl

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