FILIGENZI Anna

Anna Filigenzi
Full Professor (L-OR/16)
Archaeology and Art History of India
University of Naples“L’Orientale”
Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, 12
80134 - Napoli
anna.filigenzi@libero.it
afiligenzi@unior.it


EDUCATION
1990 Ph.D., Archaeology, Relationship between East and West, UNO
1984 M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Oriental section,
curriculum Art history and archaeology), Istituto Universitario
Orientale of Naples, now Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale
(hereafter UNO)

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
1999-2003 Assegno di ricerca [research grant], UNO.
1992-93 Post-doctoral fellowship, UNO.
1992 Post-doctoral fellowship, Collège de France of Paris.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Highly proficient in spoken and written English and French; good command of Hindi and Urdu; basic communication skills in Pashto; good working knowledge of Greek and Latin; basic working knowledge of Sanskrit; basic communication skills in German

CAREER HISTORY
CURRENT STATUS:
2023 - Full Professor at the University of Naples “l’Orientale”
2022 - Deputy Director of the ISMEO –The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies [ I S M E O - Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente]
2021 - Coordinator of the MA’s Degree in Archaeology: East and West at the University
of Naples “l’Orientale”
2021 - Deputy Director of the interuniversity School for Specialization in Archaeological Heritage East and West (Salerno University/ University of Naples “l’Orientale”)
2021 - Member of the Committee of the PhD course “Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean”
at the University of Naples “l’Orientale”
2021 - Member of the Committee for the Development Cooperation at the University of Naples “l’Orientale”
Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan (since 2004)
Member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (since 1984)
Habilitated both as Full Professor and Associate Professor in 2013 (qualification not
existing in Italy prior to the first call in 2012), sector 10/N3 (Cultures of Central-
and Eastern Asia),
https://abilitazione.cineca.it/ministero.php/public/esitoAbilitati/settore/10%252FN3/fascia/1
https://abilitazione.cineca.it/ministero.php/public/esitoAbilitati/settore/10%252FN3/fascia/2
and again as Full Professor in 2020: https://asn18.cineca.it/pubblico/miur/esito/10%252FN3/1/3

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2019-2023 Associate Professor at the University of Naples “l’Orientale” (since 2019)
2010-2019 Lecturer at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”
2010-2013: Holder of the FWF Stand-alone Project P21902 “The cultural history of
Uddiyana 4th to 8th century CE” (Guest Institution: Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Numismatische Kommission)
2002-2009: Non-tenure-track professor at the University of Naples “l’Orientale”.
April 2007-December 2008: Part-time (75%) Senior post-doc position at the Institut für
Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien (research project: The Cultural History of the
Western Himalaya from the 8th century; project leader Prof. Deborah Klimburg-Salter)
03. 2006- 01. 2007: Assistentin at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Interfakultäre Forschungsplattform und Dokumentationsstelle für die Kulturgeschichte Inner- und Südasiens (IFD) Universität Wien


CAREER-RELATED HISTORY
SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS (INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL) SUPPORTED BY THIRD-PARTY FUNDS ALLOCATED VIA COMPETITION:
5 projects as director/Principal Investigator
1 project as co-director
5 projects as a member
2 as consultant
5 individual projects


COLLABORATION WITH SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPAEDIAE
1998-2005 Scientific revising and editing for the Institute of the Italian
Encyclopaedia (Enciclopedia Archeologica Treccani) (Central and South Asia sections).
2002: collaboration with the Encyclopaedia Muse for the section “Central Asia and
Indian Subcontinent”
1995-1996: collaboration with the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia (Enciclopedia
Archeologica Treccani) for the updates of the entries of Indian literature and history
(volumes X, XI, XII of the Nuovo Dizionario Enciclopedico Treccani)
Since 1991 occasional collaborator of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia (Enciclopedia Archeologica Treccani) for the Indo-Pakistani area

MUSEUMS’ EXHIBITS AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Photographic exhibition “At the Roots of the Buddhist art of Gandhara - Celebrating 60
Years of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Swat Valley (Pakistan)“
犍陀罗艺术探源 - 意大利考古队斯瓦特考古项目60周年纪念展 Peking University, Sackler Museum
of Art and Archaeology, 17.11.2015 -24.2.2016
Das Antlitz des Fremden: Die Münzen der Hunnen und Westtürken in Zentralasien und
Indien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1.12.2012 - 29.9.2013 (descriptive entries and
illustrative apparatus for Afghanistan/Pakistan)
http://www.khm.at/de/ausstellungen/aktuell/das-antlitz-des-fremden
The Virtual Museum of Iraq: Texts, descriptive entries and illustrative apparatus for
the Parthian-Sasanian hall (2007) http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/prehome.htm
Il Maestro di Saidu Sharif. Alle origini dell'arte del Gandhara (curator, with
Pierfrancesco Callieri), Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale, Rome, 18.04 – 08.09.2002.
1986 - 1990 external collaborator for the educational activities of the Museo Nazionale
di Arte Orientale, Rome (section Gandhara)

FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY:
Afghanistan: field work, research, documentation, consulting (Buddhist sites of Tapa
Sardar, Mes Aynak, Tepe Narenj; Kabul Museum), since 2003
Swat, Pakistan: since 1984 several excavation campaigns, surveys, documentation,
musealisation and other related activities
Iran: Citadel of Bam (2005-2006)

ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
24th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology
and Art (hosted by UNO/ISMEO), Naples, 2-6 July 2018
(with Roberta Giunta) International Conference on the Safeguarding of Afghan Cultural
Heritage (UNESCO-University of Naples “L’Orientale), Naples, University of Naples
“L’Orientale”, December 13th 2013
(with Roberta Giunta) The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957 –
2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Rome, January 8th 2008

OTHER TITLES
15.07.2011 – 30.11.2011 Individual Consultant UNESCO (MLA3 - 35C/5 "Development of
Museums")


ACADEMIC TEACHING
CURRENTLY:
Regular teaching activity (BA and MA courses) on Archaeology and art history of India
and Central Asia (with specific programmes for Archaeology and art history of Far
Eastern Asia) at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Occasionally, invited seminar lectures are also given in other Universities

PREVIOUSLY:
Prior to 2019, teaching activities on Indian and Central Asian art history and archaeology have been carried out at the following Universities
University of Naples “L’Orientale” (on regular basis in the framework of the contract
as Lecturer (2010-2018)
University of Naples “L’Orientale” (on regular basis in the framework of the contract
as non-tenure track professor; 2002-2009
University of Vienna (Institute for Art History; Department of Indology)
University of Bologna (Faculty of Conservation of the Cultural Heritage, Ravenna),
Italy
University of Trapan, Italy


TALKS
102 TALKS:
31 invited individual lectures
44 invited presentations at international conferences, workshops and symposia
16 presentations at publicly called international conferences, workshops and symposia
9 presentations in collective seminars
2 public activity report


MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC EDITORIAL BOARDS
Annali dell’Università di Napoli "L'Orientale" ISSN 0393-3180 06/2012 (until 2015)
Journal of Asian Civilisation ISSN 1993-4696 (since 2009)
Indo-Iranian Journal ISSN: 0019-7246 (since 2016)


PEER REVIEWING FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND INSTITUTIONS
Annali dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (University of Naples
“L’Orientale”, Italy; ISSN 0393-3180 06/2012)
Ancient Pakistan (Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar; ISSN [print]:
0066-1600; ISSN [online]: 2708-4590)
Gandharan Studies (Peshawar University, Pakistan)
Journal of Asian Civilisation (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; ISSN 1993-
4696 01/2009)
Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society (Historicus), Hamdard University, Karachi,
Pakistan

MEMBERSHIP OF PhD EVALUATION BOARDS
Member of the Board of the PhD in Asia Africa and the Mediterranean, University of
Naples “L’Orientale” (since 2021)
Committee for PhD thesis evaluation of the Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (since 2005)
Member of the Board of the PhD in Archaeology – Relationship between the Orient and the
Occident, University of Naples “L’Orientale” (2010-2017)


MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
Italian representative at the Executive Board of the European Association for South
Asian Archaeology and Art (since 2014) and President in office 2016-2018
Vice President of the Société Européene pour l'Étude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et
de l'Asie Centrale (SEECHAC)
Member of the Executive Board of the ISMEO (International Association of Mediterranean
and Oriental Studies; charter member, 2012)
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the project Gandhara Connections
(Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford)
Member of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (Is.I.A.O.), Rome, Italy
(until its closure in 2012)
Member of the Centro di Studi sul Buddhismo, University of Naples “L’Orientale”


PUBLICATIONS
updated list in: https://unora.unior.it/browse?type=author&order=ASC&rpp=20&authority=rp01495#.XbsyYvlKipo)
- 6 monographs (2 co-authored, with Domenico Faccenna)
- 9 co-edited volumes (2 in preparation)
- 77 articles and reviews in scientific journals and collective works (4 in print, 2 in preparation)
- 1 review-article
- 1 review
- 1 Preface
- 29 encyclopaediae’s entries, contributions to exhibition catalogues (2 in preparation)
- 2 articles in art magazines
- 2 web-sites
- 11 digital publications and productions of data-base resources (1 in preparation)


REASEARCH INTERESTS
Art history and archaeology of the North-west of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia, with special focus on Gandharan and post-Gandharan periods
Buddhist iconography and architecture
Relationship between religious culture, politics and civil society
Cultural relationship between Northern Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Western Himalaya, Xinjiang, particularly with regard to the development and circulation of visual art forms