Eugen Ciurtin

Director, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy
Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13
050711 Bucharest, Romania (EU)
e.ciurtin@ihr-acad.ro

Associate Professor, Mahidol University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 999 Phutthamonthon 4 Road, Salaya 73170 Nakhon Pathom (Greater Bangkok), Thailand

The name of my adorable Indian friend I first met some ten years ago is Tuladhar. Though most gentle in his maitrī-like and smiley moves which are not quite so hard to learn, he was sometimes poorly treated. He deserves - I assume - fuller citizenship from our other friends of the Delhi Union Territory, and they already gave us indeed a decent amount of coins (one or two rupees only). There are alas a bit more facts about Elephant Tuladhar's friend.

Born 1975; PhD 2003; postdoctoral studies in Paris (2003-2007); fields of research: Indian Studies, Buddhist Studies, and History of Religions, including their historiography.

Activity: 22 years of editorship for scholarly periodicals - ARCHÆVS. Studies in the History of Religions (f. 1997) and STVDIA ASIATICA. International Journal for Asian Studies (f. 2000). (It seems I'm afraid somehow mandatory to count years, for Romanian milieu at least: things not only Asian, or scholarly, or even cultural, but of every doable sort hardly have now more than twenty continuous years behind and only after 1989. Contrary to Tuladhar's time-honoured forte, most Romanian-born folks [as I also am] missed that vital dose of kṣānti.) Teaching (Bucharest, Paris, Delhi), as well as others. More than 50 lectures, some of them invited, in Europe and Asia. Membership: several History of religions, South Asian/Indian and Asian/Oriental studies (inter)national associations in Europe and abroad, including Société Asiatique (Paris; since 2004).

Publications: more than 300 titles including the edition of one international Festschrift, for Arion Roşu (Bucharest-Paris, 2004), four critically edited books (2000, 2004, 2016, 2017) as well as five volumes of Proceedings (EASR & IAHR 2006 Congress in Bucharest, 2008-2010), chapters in international volumes and entries in encyclopedias, research articles, critical review articles, reviews, as well as an obituary and several dozens of essays, written in English and French (also, but less, in Romanian), and published since 1996 mostly in Europe. A yearly reviewer for Bulletin d'Études Indiennes since 2003. Manuscript reviewer [double blind peer review] for international journals like NVMEN (Brill), Religion (Routledge), Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni (Morcelliana), etc.

Long-term projects beyond current tasks and main fields (titles tentative): "Scores of beauty in F-minor-powered worlds: Scarlatti's Sonata Ralph Kirkpatrick 466 and its Spanish harpsichord family"; "Histories of obliteration: insights from Vivaldi's 'Il Farnace'"; and "As Kleist writes on Musil, Musil writes on Cioran: last advances in the precision of the soul."

Secretary of the Romanian Association for the History of Religions (RAHR, est. 1997)
Publications Officer of the European Association for the Study of Religions (2008-2010, 2011-2013)
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Reader (CŞ II), Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy

Coordination (2010-2013) of the Postdoctoral school in History of Religions at IHR, as partner in an European consortium and a EU-endowed program (POS DRU 61104).

Keynote speaker for the EASR | IAHR Conference in Bern, 2018
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Phone: Phone/Fax: +40 21 314 30 74
Address: Professor (Cercetător științific gr. I) & past Secretary of the Scientific Council
Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy
Calea 13 Septembrie no. 13 sect. 5, Bucharest 050711