Francesca TAROCCO
- Position
- Full Professor
- Roles
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Director's Delegate for Faculty Integration
Director of the Centre "NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities"
- Telephone
- 041 234 7845 / 041 234 8872
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francesca.tarocco@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Archaeology, Art History, Religions and Philosophies of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia [ASIA-01/E]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/francesca.tarocco(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: San Sebastiano
Office hours
Office Hours: Wedensdays 12-2pm (online). Please be in touch by email to select a time slot.
Teaching activity current year
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LMR20]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Laurea
Teaching activity previous years
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LMR20]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Laurea
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Archeologia, storia dell'arte, religioni e filosofie dell'Asia orientale e sud-orientale [ASIA-01/E]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI [M-STO/06]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Estremo Oriente,Europa, America Settentrionale
- Known languages
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Chinese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
English (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Literary Chinese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Spanish (scritto: avanzato parlato: intermedio)
French (scritto: avanzato parlato: intermedio)
Japanese (scritto: base parlato: base)
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Italiano (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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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
- Participation as referees of national and international research projects
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Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (Major Research Grants)
The Leverhulme Trust (Major Research Grants)
Arts Council of England
Asia Europe Foundation
British Academy
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Ambiente Linea:
Clima
Area: Ambiente Linea: Ecologia animale/vegetale
Area: Ambiente Linea: Gestione e trattamento rifiuti/reflui
Area: Archeologia ed arti Linea: Arte contemporanea
Area: Beni culturali Linea: Valorizzazione di beni culturali
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - politiche e gestione
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia teoretica
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: cinese classica
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: cinese moderna
Area: Lingue e letterature dell’Asia Orientale Linea: giapponese
Area: Religioni e filosofie Linea: Religioni e filosofie - Cina e Giappone
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Antropologia
Area: Studi culturali Linea: Studi culturali
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Cina
- Buddhist Studies
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- Keywords:
- Humanities, Social sciences
- Buddhism and Modern China
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- Description:
- Buddhism and Modern China
- Keywords:
- Humanities, Social sciences
- Contemporary art and Buddhism in China
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- Keywords:
- Humanities
- Chinese Religious History
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- Description:
- Terminology and religious identiy
- Keywords:
- Humanities, Social sciences
- Environmental Humanities
- Buddhism and Mysticism in East Asia
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- SSD:
- ASIA-01/F
- Other members of the research group:
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Katja CENTONZE
- Buddhism and Technology
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- Other members of the research group:
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Francesco Maria CATANZARO
- Buddhism and the Environment
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- Other members of the research group:
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Rita MANCINI
- Buddhism, Consumption and Material Culture in Urban Asia
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- Chinese Buddhist Relics
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- Making Home: A Study of Chinese Christianity in Northern Italy
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- Non Human Personhood across Buddhist Imaginaries
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- The Cultivated City
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- SSD:
- ASIA-01/E
- Other members of the research group:
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Laura DE GIORGI
- Zaanheh: A Natural History of Shanghai
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- SSD:
- L-OR/20
- Buddhism and Photography in China
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- Funding body:
- NYU Shanghai
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 1 Length in months: 24
- Buddhist Ethics
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- Funding body:
- Dottorato Interesse Nazionale DREST e Unione Buddhista Italiana
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per attività di didattica/formazione
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Francesco Maria CATANZARO
- EXperiencing TRAnscendence through the Arts: A Comparative Study on Religion and the Arts in Contemporary Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism (EXTRA)
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- Funding body:
- Templeton Foundation
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2025 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Katja CENTONZE
Francesco PIRAINO
- KARMIC -Knitting Artistic and religious materialities with industrial conversions
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- Funding body:
- European Union
- Type:
- H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2025 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Amalia ROSSI
- NICHE Centre For Environmental Humanities
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- Funding body:
- THE NEW INSTITUTE
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- https://www.unive.it/pag/44234/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2021 Length in months: 72
- Other members of the research group:
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Sara CULEDDU
Enrica DE CIAN
Helen Grace Foxhall FORBES
Francesco GONELLA
Pietro Daniel OMODEO
Roberta RAFFAETA'
Fabiana ZOLLO
- Nature Pluralism: Consequences of the Ontological Turn in Anthropology for Western Rationality
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- Funding body:
- European Union
- Type:
- H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2024 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Roberta RAFFAETA'
- Religion and Conversion in Late Imperial China
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- Funding body:
- European Union
- Type:
- H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Jacopo SCARIN
- The Cultivated City
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- Funding body:
- Erasmus +
- Type:
- Erasmus+
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2022 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Laura DE GIORGI
- Xiong Shili’s tiyong-based reading of Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Philosophy
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- Funding body:
- PNRR e Unione Buddhista Italiana
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per attività di didattica/formazione
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2024 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Linda Anna PIETRASANTA
Publication highlights
Francesca Tarocco, Amalia Rossi, Ben Weilun Zhang, Silvia Francescon Eating Like a Buddhist: Vegetarianism and Ethical Foodscapes in the 21st Century in ANNALI DI CA' FOSCARI. SERIE ORIENTALE, vol. 60, pp. 257-286 (ISSN 2385-3042)
DOI 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5068282
Francesca Tarocco Animal Protection (husheng) and Ethical Eating Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism in REVIEW OF RELIGION AND CHINESE SOCIETY, vol. 10, pp. 124-146 (ISSN 2214-3955)
DOI - URL correlato 2023,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5048320
Francesca Tarocco Luminous Remains: On Jewels, Relics and Glass in Chinese Buddhism , Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary, Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 242-259 (ISBN 9780824887858)
DOI - URL correlato 2021,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/3711751
Francesca Tarocco; Anna Greenspan An Enchanted Modern: Urban Cultivation in Shanghai in INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY FOR ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 51, pp. 1-19 (ISSN 2566-686X)
DOI - URL correlato 2020,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3719207
Tarocco, Francesca 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)
DOI 2019,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/3687798
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Francesca Tarocco received her MA and PhD at SOAS, University of London. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching is situated at the intersection of Buddhist and Asian Studies and is informed by scholarly traditions in history, religious studies, and Sinology. She has done extensive research in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore with grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the Sutasoma Foundation, the Spalding Trust, NYU Global, the Terra Foundation and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. Before joining Ca’ Foscari, she was an Associate Professor of Buddhist Cultures at New York University, Shanghai. She also taught at The University of Manchester and SOAS, and was a visiting professor at New York University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Buddhist Cultures and a fellow of the Center for Global Asia at New York University, Shanghai.
Tarocco has published on media, visual culture, technology, ecology, sacred space, and the genealogy of the term religion in East Asia. She is the author of The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma (Routledge, 2011) and, with Xun Zhou, of Karaoke: the Global Phenomenon (Chicago University Press, 2008). With Cosima Bruno, she co-edited, Made in China (Mondadori, 2008). She recently guest-edited the special issue “Buddhists and the Making of Modern Chinese Societies”, for the Journal of Global Buddhism (2017) and (with Patrich Heinrick and Daniele Brombal) “Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia”, a special issue of The International Quarterly For Asian Studies (2019-20). She has published numerous articles and book chapters in journals including Religion, Philosophy and Social Criticism, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and others. She is the associate editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Buddhism and serves on a number of other editorial boards. She has lectured widely and, in 2019, she gave one of the invited lecture in the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism at SOAS.
She is currently working on a book project on Buddhism and Technology in Modern China and (with Anna Greenspan) on a collaborative research project entitled “The Cultivated City in Asia”.
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