TAROCCO Francesca

• Buddhism and Technology in China
• Buddhism, Consumption and Material Culture in Urban Asia
• Chinese Buddhist Relics
• Zaanheh: A Natural History of Shanghai

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Tesi magistrali - relatore 7
Tesi tirennali relatore 10

Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (Major Research Grants)
The Leverhulme Trust (Major Research Grants)
Arts Council of England
Asia Europe Foundation

Editorship:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism, on-going
International Quarterly for Asian Studies (2019/2020)
Journal of Global Buddhism (2017)
Member of the Advisory Board of The Revealer, NYU Center of Media and Religion; Jury Chair/Member British Council Artists in Residence Program, Artists Link Shanghai (2006—2007)

Reader of Manuscripts for Academic Publishers:

Hawai’i University Press (2009—) Routledge (2009—)

Reader and Author for Reference Works:

The Cambridge Companion to Miracle (2006—2007)


The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2015—on going)

Peer reviewer for scholarly journals:
Studies in Chinese Religion
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies,
China Quarterly, 

Journal of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies,

Buddhist Studies Review,
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
CHIME Journal,
Contemporary Buddhism,

Journal of Buddhist Ethics,
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs,
Journal of Global Buddhism,

Journal of Modern South Asian Studies
Co-Editor of China in Focus, 1997—1999

Durante il triennio ho portato a termine numerosi due progetti di ricerca sulla relazione tra buddhismo, cultura materiale e tecnologia nella Cina moderna e contemporanea che sono culminati nelle seguenti pubblicazioni in journals e volumi: Tarocco (2021), Luminous Remains: On Jewels, Relics and Glass in Chinese Buddhism , Shiny: Jewels in Buddhist Imaginary and Materiality, Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press (ISBN 9780824887858) (Articolo su libro)
Tarocco (2021), Transcendence and Immanence: Nonhuman Actants across Buddhist Imaginaries and Modernist Concerns , Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, Gwanju, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, pp. 60-67 (ISBN 979-11-957933-5-8) (Articolo su libro)
Francesca Tarocco (2020), An Enchanted Modern: Urban Cultivation in Shanghai in INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY FOR ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 51, pp. 1-19 (ISSN 2566-286X) (Articolo su rivista)
Francesca Tarocco (2020), Corpi di carta:note sul buddhismo e la fotografia in SINOSFERE, vol. nove, pp. 96-102 (ISSN 2612-6982) (Articolo su rivista)
(a cura di) Patrick Heinrich, Francesca Tarocco, Daniele Brombal (2020), Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia (Part II) in INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY FOR ASIAN STUDIES, Freiburg, Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, vol. 51, pp. 147-293 (ISSN 2566-286X) (Curatela)
Patrick Heinrich, Francesca Tarocco, Daniele Brombal (2019), Editorial: Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia in INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY FOR ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 50, pp. 5-10 (ISSN 2566-6878) (Articolo su rivista)

Patrick Heinrich, Francesca Tarocco, Daniele Brombal (2019), Editorial: Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia in INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY FOR ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 50, pp. 5-10 (ISSN 2566-6878) (Articolo su rivista)
Francesca Tarocco (2019), Religious Tolerance: A View from China in PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM, vol. 45, pp. 469-476 (ISSN 0191-4537) (Articolo su rivista)
Francesca Tarocco (2019), The Buddhist Economies of Modern Urban China in HUALIN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST STUDIES, vol. 2.2 (2019), pp. 250-272 (ISSN 2576-2931) (Articolo su rivista)
Tarocco, Francesca (2019), Charismatic Communications: The Intimate Publics of Chinese Buddhism , Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions III: Key Concepts in Practice, Berlin, De Gruyter, vol. III, pp. 113-132 (ISBN 978-3-11-054645-3; 978-3-11-054784-9) (Articolo su libro)
Tarocco (2019), Miraculous Bodies: Buddhist Encounters with the Camera , Corpi e saperi. Riflessioni sulla trasmissione della conoscenza, Bologna, Pendragon, vol. 1, pp. 77-87 (ISBN 8833641589) (Articolo su libro)
(a cura di) Patrick Heinrich, Francesca Tarocco, Daniele Brombal (2019), Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia in Patrick Heinrich; Francesca Tarocco; Daniele Brombal in INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY FOR ASIAN STUDIES, Freiburg, Arnold-Bergstraesser Institut, vol. 50, pp. 1-142 (ISSN 2566-6878) (Curatela)

Nel prossimo triennio mi dedichero' in paricolare alla monografia: Buddhism and Technology in Modern China e alle critical Asian Humanities.

Attivita' di fundraising presso enti e associazioni italiane (Unione Buddihsta Italiana) e internazionali (Taiwan, Regno Unito).

1) Invited Discussant
“Buddhist Art in the 21st Century”,
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series on Buddhism, University of Cambridge
Inaugural lecture by Eugene Y. Wang, 22 September 2021

2) Invited Speaker
“Non-human Personhood across Buddhist Imaginaries”, conference on “East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking” Conference Harvard University, 14 August 2021

3) Keynote Lecture
“Charismatic Moderns: Relocating Chinese Buddhism in the Digital Age”, The Robert Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Chinese Buddhism, SOAS,
25 January 2019

4) Invited Speaker
“Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art”, Concordia University Montreal
10 June 2019

5) Invited Speaker
“Co-constituting
the Global: Ethical Challenges and Implications” Symposium, Institute for Contemporary Inquiry Berlin
22 Jun 2018

1) Co-organizer of the International
Conference The Fragile City: Creation,
Expansion, Collapse and Resilience,
Co-sponsored by NYU Shanghai, NYU
Tendon, The New School University Urban
Studies and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice,
June 11-13, 2018, with Jonathan Soffer (NYU


3) Seminari e Webinars

1) Organizer and chair of the Webinar “Re-Orienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads” with T.H. Barrett (SOAS) and Ronit Yoeli Tlalim (Goldsmith), MaP Center for Global Europe Asia Connections and Center for the Humanities and Social Change
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 4 May 2021

2) Co-organizer of the Webinar “Can China Go Green? Environmental Governance in China” with Judith Shapiro (American University) and Yifei Li (NYU Shanghai)
MaP Center for Global Europe Asia Connections and Center for the Humanities and Social Change, with Daniele Brombal
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 19 April 2021

3) Co-organizer and chair of the lecture by Lucia Dolce (SOAS) “Tra medicina e meditazione: pratiche del buddhismo tantrico in Asia Orientale”, Lecture Series on Asian Religions, Department of Asian and North African Studies, 14 February 2020, with Silvia Rivadossi e Giovanni Bulian

4) Organizer of the Inaugural Marco Polo Lecture by Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine), “Protests, Resistant Past and Collective Memory in the Long Twentieth Century”, and of the graduate seminar “Mr. Science and Mr. Democracy, 1919-2019”, MaP Center for Global Europe Asia Connections at Ca’Foscari, 21-22 May 2019

4) Organizzazione e partecipazione in eventi di Terza Missione (musei, festival, Summer Schools in inglese e italiano)

1) Chair and Discussant
Anthropocene Campus Venice, Water Politics in the Age of the Anthropocene, with Amitav Ghosh and Serenella Iovino, Ca’ Foscari University, the Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), Venice 11 October 2021

2) NYU Shanghai, co-organizer of the public presentation of the art project “Forest” by Yan Wang Preston, with Yan Wang Preston and Anna Greenspan, 27 September 2021

3) CICAP Science Festival, organizzatrice del panel “Cosmologie dell’incertezza” con Roberta Mazza e Edoardo Siani, Padova, 4 September 2021

4) Co-organizzatrice, Member of the Advisory Board
The Venice Seminars on Toleration
Venice Seminars ‘21: Free Speech, its Primacy and Challenges, Reset Dialogues Foundation Conference and Summer School with Ca’ Foscari

5) Ocean Space, Venice, Nowtilus Podcast, Invited Panellist, 10 September 2021

6) Chronos Art Center, Shanghai and Conversazione, Beijing, Invited Panellist, “Techno-culture: Wireless Media Cosmology in China”, with Anna Greenspan and Haroon Mirza, 13 May, 2021, on-line

7) Co-organizzatrice, Chair of the Advisory Board
Venice Seminars ‘20: Communities and the Individual: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Divide, Reset Dialogues Foundation Conference and Summer School with Ca’ Foscari

8) Institute of Contemporary Art, Invited Panellist, Public Program for Goldenrod, The Invisible Garden by Zheng Bo, with Xiang Zairong, NYU Shanghai, 9 December 2019

9) Co-organizzatrice, Chair of the Advisory Board
Venice Seminars ‘19: Sources of Democracy: Citizenship, Social Cohesion and Ethical Values, Reset Dialogues Foundation Conference and Summer School with Ca’ Foscari

10) 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Time Collaborator with commissioned artist Marysia Lewandowska for a Special Project curated by Ralph Rugoff for the Pavillion of Applied Arts with La Biennale and Victoria and Albert Museum, 2019

11) Invited Speaker
Venice Seminars ‘18: Fountainheads of Toleration – Forms of Pluralism in Empires, Republics, Democracies, Reset Dialogues Foundation Conference and Summer School with Ca’ Foscari

1) Co-curator of the International Exhibition: Intimacies and Imagined Futures —video and performance practices at SOMA Art Space Berlin with artist Nabi Nara and Alexandra Chang, June-July 2018
2) General Associate Editor di The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Buddhism
3) Peer Review per i journals: Entangled Religions, China Quarterly, Emaji, Studies in Chinese Relgions, Hualin JOurnal of Buddhist Studies, Religions

4) Member of the Advisory Board of the book
series The Future Contemporary, Inquiries
into Visual, Performing and Media Arts
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

3) Member of the Advisory Board of Lagoonscapes, the Venice Journal of the Environmental
Humanities

4) Member of the Advisory Board, of the book series Masters, Texts, and Sources of the East, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

5) Membro del comitato scientifico della collana The Future Contemporary,

Direttrice del The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) dal 2021.

Dottorato Milano Bicocca, Dottorato Perugia/Parigi, Marie Curie Global, Global@Venice

1) Presidente della commissione per la
Procedura di valutazione dei ricercatori a tempo determinato ai sensi dell’art. 24, comma 3, lettera a) della Legge 240/2010, L-OR 20, Dott.ssa Silvia Rivadossi

2) Delegata del Direttore per la Faculty Integration, dal 2019

3) Presidente del comitato per la selezione e per la partecipazione al bando per opportunità di studio nell’ambito del programma di scambio a.a. 2021/2022 (secondo semestre)
presso Chulalongkorn university (Thailandia)

4) Presidente della commissione
selezionatrice nella procedura
per la copertura di n. 1 posto di ricercatore a
tempo determinato ai sensi dell'art. 24 comma
3 lettera b), settore concorsuale 10/N3,
settore s-d L-OR/20

5) Membro Collegio di Dottorato in Asian and
North African Studies

6) Membro del Comitato di Ricerca DSAAM

7) Membro della Giunta di Dipartimento

8) Membro del Comitato Scientifico
Centre for the Humanities and Social Change,

9) Membro del Comitato Scientifico,
Global@Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice

10) Membro del Comitato Scientifico,
Marco Polo Research Center for Global Asia
Europe Connections

11) Membro della Commissione giudicatrice,
per la valutazione dei candidati ammessi al
colloquio previsto per il conferimento
dell’assegno “Migrazione, Religione e COVID-
19: Uno studio dei praticanti religiosi cinesi in
Italia”

2020

1) Delegata del Direttore per la Faculty Integration

2) Membro Collegio di Dottorato in Asian and
North African Studies

3) Membro del Comitato di Ricerca DSAAM

4) Membro della Giunta di Dipartimento

5) Membro del Comitato Scientifico
Centre for the Humanities and Social Change

6) Membro del Comitato Scientifico
Global@Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice dal 2020

7) Coordinatrice del Corso di Laurea Magistrale LICAAM (compilazione della SUA)

8) Mentor accademico della Scuola di
dottorato Sapienza/Ca’ Foscari

9) Membro Collegio di Dottorato in Asian and
North African Studies

10) Membro del Comitato di Ricerca


2019

1) Referente scientifico
Summer School Reset “Communities and the
Individual: Democracy’s Building Blocks,
School of International Education

2) Segretario della commissione
selezionatrice nella procedura per la copertura
di n. 1 posto di ricercatore a tempo
determinato ai sensi dell'art. 24 comma 3
lettera b) della L. 240/2010, settore
concorsuale 10/N3, settori s-d L-OR/20, L-
OR/22).

3) Segretario della Commissione giudicatrice della selezione degli studenti rappresentanti nei Gruppi AQ e nella CPDS

4) Membro Collegio di Dottorato in Asian and
North African Studies

5) Membro del Comitato di Ricerca

2018-17

1) Coordinatrice del Corso di Laurea Magistrale LICAAM (compilazione della SUA)

2) Presidente del concorso per la selezione di un Referente mobilita’ internazionale, Cina

3) Referente mobilita’ internazionale Cina, dal
2017

4) Membro Collegio di Dottorato in Asian and
North African Studies

5) Membro del Comitato di Ricerca

6) Autrice con Laura De Giorgi, Antonella Ghersetti, Luisa Bienati e Attilio Andreini del progetto del “Dipartimento di Eccellenza” e del Centro di Ricerca MaP

Visiting Professor of Buddhist Cultures,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
New York University Shanghai,
New York University, 2016—ongoing