Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Vera Lazzaretti
Citation names
- Lazzaretti, Vera
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F518-99AB-C4C9
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5621-189X
- Google Scholar ID
- v0BP6WwAAAAJ
- Scopus Author Id
- 57164873100
Email addresses
- vera.lazzaretti@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://iscte-iul.academia.edu/VeraLazzaretti (Scholar)
- https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/author-public-page--2143/cv (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v0BP6WwAAAAJ (Scholar)
- https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=57164873100 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Religious Studies
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Hindi | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Portuguese | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) |
German | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2010/01/01 - 2013/05/29
Concluded
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PhD in Euro-Asian Studies (section of Indology and Tibetan Studies) (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Major in Cultural Anthropology; Ethnography; Indology; Religious Studies
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
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2008/01/01
Concluded
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Hindi Certificate Diploma (Pós-Graduação)
Delhi Central Hindi Directorate, India
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2007/05/02
Concluded
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Scienze Filosofiche (Licenciatura)
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Affiliation
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/10/01 - Current | Researcher | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal | ||
2020/05/01 - 2021/09/30 | Researcher | Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg Sudasien-Institut, Germany | ||
2019/10/01 - 2020/04/30 | Guest Researcher | Universitetet i Oslo Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Norway |
Universitetet i Oslo Det humanistiske fakultet, Norway | ||
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/30 | Post-doctoral fellow | Universitetet i Oslo Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Norway |
Universitetet i Oslo Det humanistiske fakultet, Norway | ||
2015/06/01 - 2017/09/30 | Post-doctoral fellow | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2015/10/01 - 2016/07/31 | Visiting scholar | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) , Germany |
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg Exzellenzcluster Asien und Europa im globalen Kontext, Germany (...) |
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2013/10/01 - 2015/12/31 | Assistant Professor | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/10/01 - 2027/09/30 | [CEEC assistant professorship individual grant] Security and heritage: Alignments and interactions of two global leitmotifs
[2020.02275.CEECIND/CP1634/CT0001]
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2024/07/01 - 2026/08/31 | Antarctic Living Heritage
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Ongoing
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2023/11/01 - 2024/10/31 | Na Mouraria: Heritage-making, (in)securities and urban imaginaries in Lisbon's historic centre.
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/10/01 - 2019/09/30 | The burden of security. Exploring spatial regulation of religious offence and the geographies of enforcement
Post-doc Fellow
Universitetet i Oslo Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Norway
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Norges forskningsråd
Concluded
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2009/01/01 - 2009/12/31 | History and mythological transmission in the temple of Gauri Kedareshvar in Varanasi
45673
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Banaras Hindu University, India
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Fondazione Cariplo Università degli Studi di Milano Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/07/01 - 2021/10/01 | Transformative Heritage
ExU 6.2.20/H SF6
Principal investigator
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg |
2021/05/01 - 2021/09/30 | [DAAD Prime] Security and heritage: Globalised aspirations and material futures in urban north India
57567612
Principal investigator
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Concluded
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2020/05/01 - 2021/04/30 | Security and heritage. Alignments and collusions of two global leitmotifs
ExU 6.2.3
Principal investigator
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Concluded
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2015/06/01 - 2017/09/30 | Evolution and transformations of local urban pilgrimage in Varanasi
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Post-doc Fellow
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Milano
Concluded
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2010/01/01 - 2013/05/29 | "When the copy darkens the model. Study on spatial transposition and Banaras: the case of jyotirlingas".
9996745
PhD Student Fellow
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Torino
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2015/10/01 - 2016/07/31 | Waterscapes of Banaras
5243687
Post-doc Fellow
Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg Sudasien-Institut, Germany
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DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Edited book |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/11/14 | Of Goddesses and Mosques: Heritage, Repatriation and Violence in Hindu Nationalist India | Visualizing Ancient Histories Symposium, organised by the PURANA Project (ERC, 101054849)
Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands)
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2024/10/25 | NaMouraria: Heritage-Making, (In)securities and Urban Imaginaries in Lisbon’s Historic Centre | Workshop ‘Gentrification, heritage and diversity in the city’
NOVA FSCH Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2024/05/16 | The Afterlife of Repatriation: Heritage and Violence in Hindu Nationalist India | Course on ‘Cultural Heritage, Identities, and Religion in a Postcolonial World’
University of Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)
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2024/04/18 | Repatriation, Heritage and Violence In Hindu nationalist India | Invited teacher at the PhD course ‘Regional approaches in anthropology’
University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2024/03/14 | The Kashi Vishvanath Dham in Banaras: A tale of contorted heritage-making and insecurities in new India | ‘Religious Foundations – Recent Research on the Built Environment in South Asia ’
Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
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2023/07/28 | Paper presentation "Security, heritage and future-making: Exploring the nexus through ethnographic insights from urban north India", at ECSAS 2023 in Turin. | 27th ECSAS European Conference for South Asian Studies |
2022/09/16 | Introduction to the panel "Religion, heritage and the "post-secular age": Insights from Asia and the Middle East".¿ | 34th Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT)
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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2022/09/07 | Heritage unbounded: Destruction, construction and the ill-logics of heritage in Hindu nationalist India | The 8th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA)
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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2022/06/27 | Liberators and encroachers: Banaras and the shifting meanings of heritage in new India | The Decolonisation Seminar Series of the Project 'Heritage ad Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia' |
2022/04/06 | The unperceived mosque: Heritage paradoxes and (in)security in Banaras | WebiNAR-Online seminar cycle organised by NAR (Anthropology of Religion Network, CRIA)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2021/11/13 | The shadow of Ayodhya in Banaras: Reflections around disruption and its reverberations | Heidelberg Indology Doctoral Symposium
South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)
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2021/06/29 | Religion, Heritage and Urban renewal in Banaras | Seminar Urban Heritage
Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)
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2021/06/09 | Participation to to the panel on Heritage, Conflicts, Tourism and the Role of Researchers , 9-12 June 2021. Paper presented: Ethical puzzles and enduring precarity at a contested heritage site in north India. | 8th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference
(Italy)
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2021/05/11 | Jurisprudence and Geography in the Making of Hindu Majoritarianism | Research Colloquium at the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia
South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
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2020/07/20 | Paper: Aspiration Panel 116: The Future of Security | EASA 16th Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology
Virtual Lisbon (Lisbon)
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2019/09/20 | The haunted mosque. Memories of destruction and spatial ambiguities at Gyan Vapi. | 2019 – International Workshop on ‘Liminal Spaces and Identity Transformations in Indian Cultural History’.
Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)
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2019/07/01 | Facets of offence and securitisation at the centre of Banaras. | Research Colloquium of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
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2018/06/07 | Securitisation and the potentiality of offence at the centre of Banaras. | International Conference of the Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives research group on ‘Containing Religious Offence in South
Asia’
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
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2018/06/05 | Roundtable discussion: Fieldwork in a volatile region.¿ | South Asia Across the Nordic Regions Annual Meeting
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
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2017/11/01 | The burden of security. Exploring spatial regulation of religious offence and the geographies of enforcement. | Invited Talk for a Morgenstierne double lecture with Devleena Ghosh (University of Technology, Sydney)
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
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2016/07/28 | ‘Banaras and Beyond. Confluences of devotion at the three Cities of Gaya, Kasi and Prayag in a Pilgrimage Scroll (tirthapatta) from Mewar’. | ECSAS 24th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Studies
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
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2016/07/21 | In the footsteps of pilgrims. Examples of displacement, resistance and creativity from the practice of local urban pilgrimage in heritagizing Varanasi. | EASA 14th Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology
Università degli Studi di MIlano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
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2016/06/11 | Ethnographic perspectives from an urban religious compound in transition. | 6th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference
Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy)
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2016/06/07 | Framing Jnanavapi between ethnography and history. Space and boundaries around a sacred well at the centre of local urban pilgrimage in Banaras. | Invited talk for the Research Colloquium of the Institute of Geographical Sciences
Freie Üniversität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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2016/04/21 | The urban trajectories of pilgrimage: divine lists, spatial practices and agencies in the making of heritage and local circuits in Bananas (Varanasi). | Invited presentation for an interview for a Junior Professorship in Anthropology and History of Religions in South Asia,
Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt (Erfurt, Germany)
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2016/01/27 | Jnanavapi in transition: spatial aspects and ethnographic perspectives from research around a sacred well in Banaras. | Research Colloquium of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia
South Asia Institute, University go Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2024/06/06 - 2024/06/06 | South Asian Studies Circle's PhD students and Young Researchers Workshop (2024/06/06 - 2024/06/06)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2024/05/10 - 2024/05/10 | Seminar of the South Asian Studies Circle at CRIA 'Heritage preservation or religious majoritarianism? Placemaking and Affect
in Janakpurdham, Nepal' with Sabin Ninglekhu (Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal). (2024/05/10 - 2024/05/10)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2024/04/23 - 2024/04/23 | Seminar of the South Asian Studies Circle at CRIA ‘Sacred Heritage’: The Nation and Other Communities in Pakistan’s Sufi Shrines
with Amen Jaffer (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) (2024/04/23 - 2024/04/23)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2023/07/26 - 2023/07/29 | Organiser of the panel "Security and heritage Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: Insights from South Asia
and its diasporas" at the European Conference of South Asian Studies, Turin, 26-29 July 2023. (2023/07/28 - 2023/07/28)
Call (Other)
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Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy |
2023/06/29 - 2023/06/30 | Organiser of the international online workshop "Heritage and religion in South Asia and its diasporas: Frictions, entanglements
and reconfigurations".¿ (2023/06/29 - 2023/06/30)
Workshop (Other)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2022/09/12 - 2022/09/17 | Organisation of the panel 'Religion, heritage and the "post-secular age": Insights from Asia and the Middle East” at the 34th Deutsche
Orientalistentag (DOT). (2022/09/12 - 2022/09/17)
Call (Co-organisor)
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Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
2021/04/15 - 2021/07/22 | As religiões asiáticas e a política do património (2021/04/15)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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2019/03/25 - 2019/03/29 | Writing Workshop of the ‘Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives’ research group (2019/03/25)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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2018/06/07 - 2018/06/08 | International Workshop on Containment of Religious Offence (2018/06/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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2016/07/27 - 2016/07/30 | Organisation of the panel "Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Pilgrimage in South Asia" at the ECSAS 24th—Conference of the
European Association of South Asian Studies—together with Prof. Jörg Gengnagel (2016/07/27 - 2016/07/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland |
2016/07/27 - 2016/07/30 | Organisation of the panel ‘Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Pilgrimage in South Asia’ at the ECSAS 24th Conference of the
European Association of South Asian Studies, together with Prof. Jörg Gengnagel (2016/07/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2020/02/17 - 2020/03/06 | Co-teacher of the module on Hindu pilgrimage of the Lived Sanskrit Cultures international course held in Varanasi (India).
Seminar
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Lived Sanskrit Cultures
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany Indian Institute of Technology BHU Varanasi, India |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2019/01/01 - Current | Association of Critical Heritage Studies | |
2015/01/01 - Current | European Association of Social Anthropologists | |
2014/01/01 - Current | European Association of South Asian Studies |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/01/01 - Current | Editorial Board member for the Ethno-Indology series of Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals (HASP)
Member
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2021/04/15 - 2021/07/22 | Seminar and lecture series: Asian Religions and the Politics of Heritage | Transcultural studies; Anthropology; Heritage Studies; religious Studies; Asian Studies (Magister) | Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg Sudasien-Institut, Germany |
2020/10/13 - 2021/02/25 | Seminar: Heritage in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Past, present and Future of a contested concept | Heritage Studies; Transcultural Studies; Anthropology; Asian studies; Area Studies; Religious studies (Master) | Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
2018/02/19 - 2020/03/16 | Co-teacher of the module on Hindu pilgrimage for the International Winter School Lived Sanskrit Cultures [2018-2020] | (Master) | Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg Südasien-Institut Bibliothek, Germany Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany |
2018 - 2018 | Seminar: The sacred city. Past, present and future renditions of the idea of Banaras. | South Asian Studies; Anthropology | Universitetet i Oslo Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Norway |
2013/10/01 - 2015/12/30 | ‘Sacred geography and pilgrimage in Indian religious traditions’ | Humanities, Indian Studies, Philosophy; Cultural Anthropology (Master) | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2021/08 - 2021/10 | Reviewer a PhD thesis for the Doctoral Course in Civiltà dell'Asia e dell'Africa at La Sapienza University of Rome
Evaluator
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Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento Istituto italiano di Studi Orientali, Italy | |
2010/01/01 - 2017/09/30 | Member of the Examining Committee for under-graduate and post-graduate courses of the Indian Studies section at the Department
of Literary, Philological and Linguistic Studies of the University of Milan, Italy.
Evaluator
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Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021 - 2021 | Journal of Extreme Anthropology (2535-3241) | |
2020 - 2020 | International Journal of Hindu Studies (1574-9282) | Springer |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2024/07/01 - Current | Supervisor for a MSCA post-doctoral scholar the project ALIGHT - Antarctic Living Heritage | Gerusa Radicchi |
Distinctions
Title
2020 | National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in Asian Studies
Governo Italiano Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy
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