Professional Associations
Association Period
Association of Critical Heritage Studies Since 2019
European Association of Social Anthropologists Since 2015
European Association of South Asian Studies Since 2014
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference Panel Convenor (with Daniela Bevilacqua) Unpacking Sanātana Dharma: Genealogies and Potentialities of a Pliable Concept ECSAS 2025 - University of Heidelberg 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Workshop South Asian Studies Circle's PhD students and Young Researchers Workshop CEAS - Centre for Research in Anthropology 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle Seminário CEAS Heritage preservation or religious majoritarianism? Placemaking and Affect in Janakpurdham, Nepal Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle Seminário CEAS ‘Sacred Heritage’: The Nation and Other Communities in Pakistan’s Sufi Shrines Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference Organiser of the panel "Security and heritage Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: Insights from South Asia and its diasporas" at the European Conference of South Asian Studies, Turin, 26-29 July 2023. ECSAS-University of Turin 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Workshop Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas: Frictions, Entanglements and Reconfigurations Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas: Goa—Architectural After/Life Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) 2023
Member of free course/summer school's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Lived Sanskrit Cultures in Varanasi University of Heidelberg and University of Würzburg Since 2022
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Organisation of the panel 'Religion, heritage and the "post-secular age": Insights from Asia and the Middle East” at the 34th Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT). 2022
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle Asian Religions and the Politics of Heritage Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies—University of Heidelberg 2021
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Workshop Writing Workshop of the ‘Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives’ research group 2019
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference International Workshop on Containment of Religious Offence 2018
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference Organisation of the panel ‘Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Pilgrimage in South Asia’ at the ECSAS 24th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Studies, together with Prof. Jörg Gengnagel 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Conference Organisation of the panel "Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Pilgrimage in South Asia" at the ECSAS 24th—Conference of the European Association of South Asian Studies—together with Prof. Jörg Gengnagel 2016
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event New Books Network Podcast on Indian Religions on 'Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment' (ROUTLEDGE 2022) with the editors Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad hosted by Raj Balkaran 2024