Personale

Recapiti

Italiano

Curriculum

Pubblicazioni

Insegnamenti

English

Curriculum

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Ruolo attuale:: Professore Associato
SSD:: L-OR/18 - Indologia e tibetologia
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letterature e Psicologia (FORLILPSI)

Recapiti

aleksandra.wenta(AT)unifi.it

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Curriculum

Posizione Atuale

Dal Settembre 2023 al presente

Professore Associato, Indologia e Tibetologia presso il Dipartimento FORLILPSI, Universita di Firenze

Posizioni Precedenti

Dal settembre 2020 al agosto 2023

Ricercatore di Tipo B Indologia e Tibetologia presso il Dipartimento FORLILPSI, Universita di Firenze

Dal Agosto 2016 al Agosto 2020

Assistant Professor presso il Department of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Religions, Nālandā University, India.

Dal Marzo 2012 al Marzo 2014

Borsista postdottorato, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (India).

Titoli di Studio

Dottorato di ricerca in Studi Orientali (Indologia e Tibetologia), Universitá di Oxford.

Laurea Magistrale in Studi Tibetani e Himalayani, Universitá di Oxford.

Dottorato di ricerca in Studi Tantrici, Benares Hindu University (India).

Laurea Magistrale in Studi Religiosi (religioni indiane), Jagiellonica Universitá (Polonia).

Borse di ricerca e premi

2019. The Robert H.N. Ho Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

2018. The Oriental Institute, Universitá di Oxford.

2017. Warren Fund, The Queen's College.

2016. FIND Fondazione di India-Europa per Nuovi Dialoghi, Zagarolo.

2015. Lorne Thyssen Borsa di studio nel mondo antico, Wolfson College, Universitá di Oxford.

2015. The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.

2015. Harish Patel Borsa di Studio, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

2015. Borsa di studio linguistico, The Oriental Institute, Universitá di Oxford.

2006. Muktabodha Borsa di studio per ricerca indologica.

Relazioni a Congressi/Seminari su Invito

Prospettiva storica sulla cultura e la pratica del buddismo tantrico (Historical Perspectives on the Culture and Practice of Tantric Buddhism), Victoria and Albert Museum, Londra, Ottobre 2018.

17a conferenza mondiale in sanscrito, British Columbia Universitá, Vancouver, Lugio 2018.

Time, Region, and Female Agency in Hindu Texts and Practices, panel alla conferenza annuale dell'Asia meridionale, Wisconsin-Madison Universitá, Ottobre 2017.

Religion and the Margins, FIND, Fondazione di India-Europa per Nuovi Dialoghi, Zagarolo, Ottobre 2017.

XVIII Congresso dell'associazione internazionale di studi buddisti, Universitá di Toronto, Agosto 2017.

Conferenza su invito, The Oriental Institute, Universitá di Oxford, Giugno 2017.

Conferenza su invito, The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Giugno 2017.

Conferenza su invito, Manoscritti e Primi Testi Cultura Pranzo Colloquio, The Queen's College,Oxford, Maggio 2017.

Conferenza su buddismo e legittimazione, Universitá di Ludwing-Maximillian, Monaco, Marzo 2017.

Conferezna su invito, Seminario Śākta, The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Febbraio 2016.

16a conferenza mondiale in sanscrito, Bangkok, Lugio 2015.

Didattica

Introduzione al tibetano classico (Anno academico 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020).

Leggere testi buddisti tibetani (Anno academico 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020).

Introduzione agli studi religiosi (Anno academico 2016-2017).

Metodologica di ricerca per lo studio della religione (Anno academico 2016-2017, 2017-2018).

Introduzione alle religioni e filosofie dell'India (Anno academico 2016-2017).

Comprensione dei testi buddisti (Anno academico 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

Tantra indú e buddista (Anno academico 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

Letture supervisionate (Anno academico 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

Tesi di laurea (Anno academico 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

Supervisione di studenti laureati

Ho supervisionato piú di una dozzina di tesi di laurea in indologia e tibetologia.

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Pubblicazioni

Legenda

Contributo su rivista |

Articolo su libro |

Libro |

Contributo in atti di convegno (proceeding) |

Brevetto |

Curatela | Altro

Altro |

Tesi di Dottorato

Aleksandra Wenta; Cameron Bailey (2024). Tibetan Magic: Introduction. In: Aleksandra Wenta; Cameron Bailey. Tibetan Magic: Past and Present, pp. 1-11, London: Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN:9781350354944.

Aleksandra Wenta (2024). The Vajrabhairavatantra: Materia Magica and Circulation of Tantric Magical Recipes. In: Aleksandra Wenta; Cameron Bailey. Tibetan Magic: Past and Present, pp. 61-84, London: Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN:9781350354944.

Aleksandra Wenta; Cameron Bailey (2024). Tibetan Magic: Past and Present. di Aleksandra Wenta; Cameron Bailey, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1-254, 978-1-3503-5494-4.

Aleksandra Wenta (2023). Tantric Heroism. In: Scott T. Allison, James K. Beggan, George R. Goethals. Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies, pp. 1-6 springer. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

wenta (2023). The Siddha with a Thousand Faces: Non-tantric and Tantric Elements in the Construction of the Buddhist Siddha in *Jñānākara's Commentary to the Introduction to the [Path of] Mantra. RELIGIONS, vol. Special Issue: Tantric Studies for the Twenty-First Century, 14(6) 792, pp. 1-21, ISSN:2077-1444

Aleksandra Wenta (2022). Demons, Wicked Ones and Those Who Violate the Samayas: Dharma Against the Enemy in Tantric Buddhism. In: C.V. Jones. Buddhism and Its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations, pp. 133-154 Oxford University Press.

Aleksandra Wenta (2022). Compte-rendu du Cuevas, J. Bryan. The Rwa Pod and Other 'Lost' Works of Rwa Lo tsā ba's Vajrabhairava Tradition. REVUE D'ÉTUDES TIBÉTAINES, vol. 65, pp. 187-193, ISSN:1768-2959 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Wenta; Andrea Acri (2022). Charnel Ground Items, Śmāśānikas, and the Question of the Magical Substratum of the Early Tantras. In: Andrea Acri, Paolo E. Rosati. Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins, pp. 40-59, London/New York/New Delhi: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions, Routledge. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Wenta; Andrea Acri (2022). A Buddhist Bhairava? Kṛtanagara's Tantric Buddhism in Transregional Perspective. ENTANGLED RELIGIONS, vol. 13 (7), pp. 1-46, ISSN:2363-6696 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Wenta (2022). The Transmission Lineages of the Raktayamāri Tantric Cycles in the Sa skya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism: The Gshin rje chos ’byung of A mes zhabs Ngag dbang kun dga’ bsod nams (1597-1659). REVUE D'ÉTUDES TIBÉTAINES, vol. 65, pp. 26-69, ISSN:1768-2959 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Wenta (2022). Tantric Ritual and Conflict in Tibetan Buddhist Society: The Cult of Yamāntaka. LEA, vol. 11, pp. 333-353, ISSN:1824-484X Accesso ONLINE all'editore

wenta (2021). Tāranātha on the Emergence of the Tantric Cycle of Vajrabhairava-Yamāntaka: Writing a Tibetan Buddhist Historiography in Seventeeth-Century Tibet. REVUE D'ÉTUDES TIBÉTAINES, vol. 61, pp. 5-52, ISSN:1768-2959

wenta (2021). From the Sequence of the Sun-Goddess (bhānavīkrama) to Time-Consumption (kālagrāsa): Some Notes on the Development of the Śākta Doctrine of the Twelve Kālīs. JOURNAL OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY, vol. 49, pp. 725-757, ISSN:0022-1791

Aleksandra Bozena Wenta (2019). Outer Places, Inner Spaces: Constructing the Gaze in Chola Chidambaram.. In: Shonaleeka Kaul. Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture., pp. 145-165, London/New York/New Delhi: Routledge, ISBN:9780367225964.

Aleksandra Wenta (2018). Dancing in the Sky of Consciousness: The Aesthetics of Power in Medieval Cidambaram. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, ISBN:9789382396567 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Bozena Wenta (2018). Becoming the Dancer: Dissolving the Boundaries Between Ritual, Cognition, and Theatrical Performance in Non-dual Śaivism. CRACOW INDOLOGICAL STUDIES, pp. 259-295, ISSN:1732-0917 DOI

Aleksandra Bozena Wenta (2018). The Making of Tantric Orthodoxy in the Eleventh-Century Indo-Tibetan World: *Jñānākara's *Mantrāvatāra (Gsang sngags la 'jug pa). JOURNAL OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY, pp. 505-551, ISSN:0022-1791

Aleksandra Wenta (2018). Smell: The Sense-Perception of Recognition. In: Bettina Baumer, Hamsa Stainton. Tantrapuṣpāñjali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir. Studies in Honour of Pandit H.N. Chakravarty., pp. 325-338 Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

Aleksandra Wenta (2016). The Twelve Kālīs and Utpaladeva's Appraisal of the Sensory Experience.. In: Rafaelle Torella, Bettina Baumer. Utpaladeva: Philosopher of Recognition, pp. 352-370, Delhi: D.K. Printworld and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, ISBN:8124608431.

Aleksandra Wenta (2016). From Spectator to Dancer: Performance metaphor and the quest for knowledge in India. CAHIERS DE LA FONDATION: INDIALOGUES, pp. 13-17

Aleksandra Wenta (2015). Between Fear and Heroism: The Tantric Path to Liberation. In: Purushottama Bilimoria, Aleksandra Wenta. Emotions in Indian Thought Systems, pp. 114-133, London/New York/New Delhi: Routledge, ISBN:9780815373254. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Wenta (2015). Emotions in Indian-Thought-Systems: An Introduction. In: Purushottama Bilimoria, Aleksandra Wenta. Emotions in Indian Thought Systems, pp. 1-54, London/New York/New Delhi: Routledge, ISBN:9780815373254. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Wenta (2015). Emotions in Indian Thought Systems. London/New York/New Delhi: Routledge, pp. 1-300, 9780815373254. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aleksandra Bozena Wenta (2013). The Great Ārdrā Darśanam Festival: Performing Śaiva Ritual Texts in Contemporary Chidambaram.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HINDU STUDIES, pp. 371-398, ISSN:1574-9282 DOI

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Curriculum

Current Position

Associate Professor, Indology and Tibetology, Department of FORLILPSI, University of Florence.

Past Positions

Researcher in Indology and Tibetology, Deparment of FORLILPSI, University of Florence: September 2020-August 2023.

Assistant Professor, Department of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Religions, Nālandā University (India): August 2016-August 2020.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla: March 2014-March 2016.

Education

PhD in Oriental Studies (Indology and Tibetology), University of Oxford (England)

MPhil in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, University of Oxford (England)

PhD in Tantric Studies, Benares Hindu University (India)

MA in Religious Studies (Indian Religions), Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Grants and Awards

2019. Robert H.N. Ho Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies

2018. The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

2017. Warren Fund, The Queen's College, Oxford.

2016. FIND, India-Europe Foundation for New Dialogues, Zagarolo.

2015. Lord Thyssen Ancient World Research Scholarship, Wolfson College, Oxford.

2015. The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.

2015. Harish Patel Scholarship, The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

2015. Wolfson College, Oxford.

2015. Language Study Grant, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

2006. Muktabodha Indological Dissertation Scholarship.

Recent Conferences/ Paper Presentations

Interactions Between Tantric Forms of Buddhism and Śaivism in the Development of the Cult of Vajrabhairava, International Workshop Buddhism and Śaivism in Pre-modern Himalayan Regions, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales/Mie University, Paris, France, October 2021.

Skull-Magic, Exorcism of Demons, Jackal Howls and the Question of Non-Tantric Magical Substratum of Early Tantras, Resilient Religion, European Association for the Study of Religion, University of Pisa, September 2021.

Historical Perspectives on the Culture and Practice of Tantric Buddhism, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, October 2018.

17th World Sanskrit Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 2018.

Time, Region, and Female Agency in Hindu Texts and Practices, panel of the Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2018.

Religion and the Margins, workshop, FIND, Zagarolo, October 2017.

XVIII Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, University of Toronto, August 2017.

Invited Lecture, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, June 2017.

Invited Lecture, The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, June 2017.

Invited Lecture, Manuscripts and Early Texts Culture Lunch Colloquium, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, May 2017.

Workshop on Buddhism and Legitimization, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, March 2017.

Invited Lecture, Śākta Seminar, The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, February 2016.

16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok, July 2015.

Teaching

Introduction to Classical Tibetan (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020).

Reading Tibetan Buddhist Texts (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2019-2020).

Introduction to Religious Studies (Academic Year 2016-2017).

Research Methodology for the Study of Religion (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018).

Introduction to Religions and Philosophies of India (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018).

Understanding Buddhist Texts (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020).

Hindu and Buddhist Tantra (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

Supervised Readings (Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

MA Thesis Class (Academic Year 2017-2018, 2018-2019).

Graduate Student Supervision

I have supervised more than a dozen of MA thesis in the field of Indology and Tibetology.

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Insegnamenti relativi all'Anno Accademico 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021

Aleksandra Bozena WENTA

Insegnamenti relativi all'Anno Accademico