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Vera Lazzaretti studied Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology in Italy and holds a Ph.D. in Indian and Tibetan Studies from the University of Turin (2013). She is a Senior Researcher (Investogadora Auxiliar, FCT 2020.02275.CEECIND) at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, where she's currently working on alignments and collusions of heritage and security in urban South Asia and Southern Europe. Before joining CRIA, Vera worked at the University of Milan, the University of Oslo and the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University. Her main field site is urban north India, and her research interests include the anthropology of space and place; religion and politics; contested heritage; securitisation and policing; inter-religious violence; religious offence; pilgrimage; religious nationalism; inequality; and ethnography. Her research has been funded by the Cariplo Foundation (2009-2010), the Universities of Milan and Turin (2010-2013, and 2015-2017), the German Academic Research Exchange (2015 and 2020), the Research Council of Norway (2017-2019), the University of Heidelberg (2020) and the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2021-ongoing). Her publications include one research monograph, one book, a variety chapters in peer-reviewed edited volumes, two special issues in Q1 journals and several articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, International Journal of Heritage Studies and Contemporary South Asia.
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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

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Religious Studies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
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
2010/01/01 - 2013/05/29
Concluded
 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
2008/01/01
Concluded
 Hindi Certificate Diploma (Pós-Graduação)
Delhi Central Hindi Directorate, India
2007/05/02
Concluded
 Scienze Filosofiche (Licenciatura)
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
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
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
(...)
2013/10/01 - 2015/12/31 Assistant Professor Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
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]
2020.02275.CEECIND/CP1634/CT0001
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/07 - 2026/08 Antarctic Living Heritage
GA 101180620
GA 101180620
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Ongoing
2023/11/01 - 2024/10/31 Na Mouraria: Heritage-making, (in)securities and urban imaginaries in Lisbon's historic centre.
PExCRIA/2023.2/NaMoura
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/30 The burden of security. Exploring spatial regulation of religious offence and the geographies of enforcement
231569
Post-doc Fellow
Universitetet i Oslo Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Norway
 Norges forskningsråd
Concluded
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
 Fondazione Cariplo

Università degli Studi di Milano
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/07/01 - 2021/10/01 Transformative Heritage
ExU 6.2.20/H SF6
Principal investigator
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
 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
 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Concluded
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
 Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Concluded
2015/06/01 - 2017/09/30 Evolution and transformations of local urban pilgrimage in Varanasi
1001000
Post-doc Fellow
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Milano
Concluded
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
 Università degli Studi di Torino
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2015/10/01 - 2016/07/31 Waterscapes of Banaras
5243687
Post-doc Fellow
Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg Sudasien-Institut, Germany
 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Lazzaretti, Vera. Qui e altrove. Divinità trasposte, pellegrinaggi sostitutivi e immaginazione geografica nell’India del Nord (‘Here and elsewhere. Transposed deities, substitute pilgrimages and geographic imagination in north India’). Milan, Italy: Biblioteca di Studi Antropologici, Edizioni Unicopli.. 2018.
    Published
  2. Lazzaretti, Vera. Varanasi. Milan, Italy: Unicopli. 2016.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Frøystad, Kathinka; Lazzaretti, Vera. "Rethinking religious offence and its containment: towards a new research agenda". In Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment. Routledge, 2022.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7357638
  2. Lazzaretti, Vera. ""We know how to behave and that's why we feel safe": Peace and insecurity in Banaras". In Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment. Routledge, 2022.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7357653
  3. Lazzaretti, Vera. "The boundary within: Demolitions, dream projects and the negotiation of Hinduness in Banaras". In Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia. Routledge, 2021.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7350771
  4. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Water And Conflicts Around Religious Heritage: Oscillations Between Centre And Periphery?". In Split Waters The Idea of Water Conflicts, edited by Luisa Cortesi; K.J.Joy. 2021.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7350873
  5. Lazzaretti, V.. "Water and conflicts around religious heritage: Oscillations between centre and periphery?". 135-152. 2021.
  6. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Sacred wells of Banaras: Glorifications, Ritual practices and Healing". In Sacred Waters: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells, edited by Celeste Ray, 159-167. Routledge, 2020.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003010142-18
  7. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Paradoxes of Heritage". In Ways of Worship, edited by Radhika Chopra. Delhi, India: Penguin Random House, 2020.
    Published
  8. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Waterscapes in transition: past and present reshape of sacred water places in Banaras". In Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia, edited by Baghel, Ravi; Stepan, Lea. Routledge, 2017.
    Published
  9. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Jnanavapi tra etnografia e storia: note di una ricerca su un pozzo sacro al centro dei pellegrinaggi locali di Varanasi". In Anantaratnaprabhava. Studi in onore di Giuliano Boccali. Ledizioni, 2017.
    Published
  10. Lazzaretti, V.. "Waterscapes in transition: Past and present reshaping of sacred water places in Banaras". 230-245. 2017.
  11. Lazzaretti, V.. "Tradition versus urban public bureaucracy? Reshaping pilgrimage routes and religious heritage around contested space". 80-96. 2016.
  12. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Tradition versus urban public bureaucracy? Reshaping pilgrimage routes and religious heritage around contested places". In Religion and Urbanism. Routledge, 2015.
  13. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Repetition and adaptation: narrative style of the Kashikedaramahatmya". In Stylistic devices in Indian literature and art. Quaderni di Acme, 2013.
    Published
Book review
  1. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Review of Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities by Moyukh Chatterjee. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023". Review of Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities 14, 1 (2023):
    Accepted
  2. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City". 41, 3 (2018):
    Published
  3. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Banaras. Urban forms and cultural histories". Review of Banaras. Urban forms and cultural histories 16, (2013):
    Published
Edited book
  1. Lazzaretti, Vera; Frøystad, Kathinka. Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment. Routledge. 2022.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7357621 • Editor
Journal article
  1. Vera Lazzaretti. "Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue". Ethnography (2024): https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381241266918.
    10.1177/14661381241266918
  2. Lazzaretti, Vera; Jacobsen, Knut A.. "Jurisprudence and geography of Hindu majoritarianism: thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya judgement". Contemporary South Asia (2024): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2301545.
    Published • 10.1080/09584935.2023.2301545
  3. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism". Contemporary South Asia (2023): 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2188173.
    10.1080/09584935.2023.2188173
  4. Lazzaretti, Vera. "New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a 'timeless city'". International Journal of Heritage Studies 27 11 (2021): 1085-1100. https://zenodo.org/record/7350790#.Y33_iezP3vU.
    Published • 10.1080/13527258.2021.1954055
  5. Frøystad, Kathinka; Lazzaretti, Vera. "Introduction: Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (2021): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2021.1923449.
    Open access • 10.1080/00856401.2021.1923449
  6. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Religious Offence Policed: Paradoxical Outcomes of Containment at the Centre of Banaras, and the ‘Know-How’ of Local Muslims". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 44 3 (2021): 584-599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2021.1923760.
    Open access • 10.1080/00856401.2021.1923760
  7. Lazzaretti, Vera. "The Burden of Security: Moral Frictions and Everyday Policing in a Contested Religious Compound". Journal of Extreme Anthropology 4 1 (2020): 74-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.7526.
    Open access • Published • 10.5617/jea.7526
  8. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Making the story new. Individuals, variations and embodiment in local urban pilgrimage". Rivista degli Studi Orientali XCII fasc. I-II (2019): 165-182.
    Published
  9. Lazzaretti, V.. "MAKING THE STORY NEW. INDIVIDUALS, VARIATIONS AND EMBODIMENT IN LOCAL URBAN PILGRIMAGE". Rivista degli Studi Orientali 92 (2019): 165-182. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85118434201&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.19272/201903802013
  10. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Questioning Meaningful Layers of Locality in a Pan-Indian tirtha". Cracow Indological Studies 18 18 (2016): 119-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.18.2016.18.06.
    Published • 10.12797/cis.18.2016.18.06
  11. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Banaras jyotirlingas: constitution and transformations of a transposed divine group and its pilgrimage". Kervan, International Journal of Afro-Asian Studies 17 (2013):
    Open access • Published
  12. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Considerazioni antropologiche sulla trasposizione spaziale: voci e strategie di Kedar ji, un jyotirlinga di Varanasi". Quaderni Asiatici 104 (2013):
    Published
  13. Lazzaretti, Vera. "Constructing the eternal city of light through history and society: evolution of the image of Kashi in the Eighteenth-Twentieth century picture maps". Cracow Indological Studies 14 1 (2013):
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Lazzaretti, Vera; Knut A. Jacobsen. "Jurisprudence and Geography of Hindu Majoritarianism: Thinking with the 2019 Ayodhya Judgement". Contemporary South Asia 32 1 (2024):
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Lazzaretti, Vera; Frøystad, Kathinka. "Containing religious offence beyond the courts.". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 44 3 (2021):
    Published • Coeditor

Other

Other output
  1. New Books Network Podcast on Indian Religions on 'Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment' (ROUTLEDGE 2022) with the editors Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad hosted by Raj Balkaran. 2024. Lazzaretti, Vera; Frøystad, Kathinka. https://newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-courtrooms-and-street-violence.
    10.5281/zenodo.10491948
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2021/06/29 Religion, Heritage and Urban renewal in Banaras Seminar Urban Heritage
Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)
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)
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
2020/07/20 Paper: Aspiration Panel 116: The Future of Security EASA 16th Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology
Virtual Lisbon (Lisbon)
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)
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)
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)
2018/06/05 Roundtable discussion: Fieldwork in a volatile region.¿ South Asia Across the Nordic Regions Annual Meeting
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current ALIGHT - Antarctic Living Heritage Map - Programa Marie Curie MSCA PF 2023
Supervisor of Gerusa Radicchi
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
2019/03/25 - 2019/03/29 Writing Workshop of the ‘Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives’ research group (2019/03/25)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018/06/07 - 2018/06/08 International Workshop on Containment of Religious Offence (2018/06/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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)
 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)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
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
 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
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
2023/01/01 - Current Editorial Board member for the Ethno-Indology series of Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals (HASP)
Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02 - 2024/07 Regional Approaches in Anthropology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Anthropology (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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
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
 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
 Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - 2021 Journal of Extreme Anthropology (2535-3241)
2020 - 2020 International Journal of Hindu Studies (1574-9282) Springer

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
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