Giovanni Ciotti

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: ASIA-01/C Indology and Tibetology

Collaborations

Formal collaboration with:: Universität Hamburg
Country:: Germany
Description:: Spokesperson for the “Palm-Leaf Manuscript Profiling Initiative” (PLMPI) at the Cluster of Excellence – Understanding Written Artefacts (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg). (https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/research/working-groups/plmpi.html)

Formal collaboration with:: Universität Hamburg
Country:: Germany
Description:: Member of the scientific commission of the long-term project "Tamilex: Establishment of an electronic corpus of Classical Tamil literature and the corresponding historical lexicon informed by emic exegetical and lexicographical sources" (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg); PI: Prof Dr Eva Wilden; Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Universität Hamburg; 2023–2046. (https://www.awhamburg.de/en/research/long-term-projects/translate-to-en-tamilex.html)

Collaboration with:: CEIAS (UMR 8564, EHESS & CNRS) and Universität Hamburg
Country:: France
Description:: External member of "Texts Surrounding Texts (TST): Satellite Stanzas, Prefaces and Colophons in South-Indian Manuscripts (collections of the Paris BnF and Hamburg Stabi)" (FRAL 2018, ANR & DFG); PIs: Dr Emmanuel Francis and Prof Dr Eva Wilden; 2014–2022. (https://tst.hypotheses.org/the-tst-project)

Formal collaboration with:: Universität Hamburg
Country:: Germany
Description:: External member of NETamil: Going From Hand to Hand: Networks of Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions (ERC Advanced Grant – project no.: 339470, University of Hamburg); PI: Prof Dr Eva Wilden; 2014–2019. (https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/netamil/contact.html#C)

Formal collaboration with:: University of Cambridge
Country:: United Kingdom
Description:: External collaborator of the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project (AHRC Project, University of Cambridge); PI: Prof Dr Vincenzo Vergiani; 2011–2014. (https://sanskrit-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/about/external-collaborators)