Claudia ZANCAN

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Sept.2022-Present: Ph.D. Fellow, 38th Cycle, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Department of Asian and North Africa Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (supervisor: prof. Silvia Vesco). Field of research: Japanese Art and Archaeology

2020-2022: Master of Arts Degree in Language and Civilisation of Asia and mediterranean Africa - Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Thesis: "Iconographic and iconological analysis of the subject of the boat in the sōshoku kofun of Northern Kyūshū"

110/110 cum laude

2011-2013: Master of Arts Degree in Archaeology - Leiden University, The Netherlands

Thesis: "Decorated Tombs in Southwest Japan - Behind the Identity and the Socio-Political Developments of the Late Kofun Society in Kyushu"

2007-2010: BA Degree in East Asian Studies: Japanese Language and Culture - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy

Thesis: "The development of zenpōkVenfun (keyhole) burials in Kofun Period Japan"

110/110 cum laude

WORK EXPERIENCES

February 2023-March 2023: Organiser with Gesshin association of the conference series: "Unearthing Japanese Archaeology - Re-discovering ancient Japan through contemporary studies"

Hybrid Format: Ca' Foscari University, Department of Asian and North African Studies - Zoom. Speakers: Dr. Daniele Petrella (IRIAE), prof. Ilona Bausch (Leiden University), prof. Mark Hudson (Max Planck Institute), prof. Maria Shinoto (Heidelberg University).

March 2022-May 2022: Collaborator for the project "Jōmon Sea: Navigation in the Origins of Japan" for IRIAE (The International Research Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology)

Translation from Japanese into Italian of archaeological excavation reports from the project's area of investigation.

February 2011-April 2011: Intern at Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE), Leiden

Organisation of international events in the field of Heritage Management; management of contact and communication with foreign organisations and agencies; cognitive acquisition of the key points in which an international Heritage Management organisation operates; dialogue between the various stakeholders on 'shared memory' in former colonial territories.

January 2013-June 2022: Japanese Language Teacher

PROJECTS

2023 Scientific Director of the archaeological mission to Japan SŌSHOKU KOFUN TALE ・ 装飾古墳物語. Project submitted with IRIAE, approved and recognised by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and awarded Institutional Recognition.

CONFERENCES

2022 KSYS Workshop (Korean Studies Young Scholars Workshop) Naples University L'Orientale, 28/11/2022:
“Towards New Horizons: Re-thinking the Northern Kyūshū Protohistoric Art and Society through its longlasting Interactions with Korea”

2022 AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi) annual conference, Bologna University, 15-17/09/2022: "Arte funeraria del Kyūshū protostorico: identità e simbologia nella rappresentazione dello yugi nei sōshoku kofun della prefettura di Fukuoka” (Funerary art of protohistoric Kyūshū: identity and symbolism in the representation of yugi in the sōshoku kofun of Fukuoka Prefecture)

2021 SEAA (Society for East Asian Archaeology) online student conference, Kyungpook National University, 26-28/06/2021:
“Investigating the identity of the Late Kofun Period Ukiha-Kurume decorated tombs”

2017 EAAA (European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology), Zurich University 24-27/08/2017: “Decorated Tombs in Southwest Japan. Behind the Identity and the Socio-Political Developments of the Late Kofun Society in Kyūshū”

WORKSHOP

2023 “BeArcheo Summer School”, Turin University

2012 “The Gowland Collection and the Archaeology of the Later Kofun Period”, by prof. Simon Kaner and prof. Ichinose Kazuo, British Museum, London

MEMBERSHIP

AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi)

IRIAE (International Research Institure for Archaeology and Ethnology)

EAAA (European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology)

SEAA (Society for East Asian Archaeology)

EAA (European Association of Archaeologists)

GESSHIN (Ca' Foscari Japanese Students' Association)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Italian: native speaker

English: advanced

Japanese: advanced

French: intermediate

Spanish: intermediate

Chinese: elementary

Korean: elementary