Althea Volpe (1645578), East Asia Curriculum, 36th cycle (scholarship).
11/2020 – present: Ph.D. candidate in Civilizations of Asia and Africa at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Project title: “Esoteric Buddhism and mantic-apotropaic liturgies: religious, ritualistic and textual connection between the kingdoms of Unified Silla and Koryǒ ”.
26/11/2021: Speaker at the "1st Korean Studies Young Scholars Workshop in Venice", AKS - Academy of Korean Studies and Department of Asian and North African Studies (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).
01/2018 – 03/2020: Italian – Korean Double Degree title with Master’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, La Sapienza University of Rome and Master of Arts in International Studies (Korean Studies) at Graduate School of International Studies of Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea).
Thesis title: “Hermeneutic-philological analysis of Pǒpsǒngge (Hymn of Dharma Nature)”.
(Supervisor: Professor Donatella Rossi, Co-Advisor: Professor Yun Seongwon).
07/2018: Attendance at the “2018 Jangseogak Hanmun Workshop”, AKS – Academy of Korean Studies (Seongnam, South Korea).
10/2014 – 12/2017: Bachelor’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Thesis title: “Study on the Wǒrin ch’ǒngangji-gok: a Korean Buddhist work of the 15th century”.
(Supervisor: Professor Giuseppina De Nicola).
08/2016 – 02/2017: Attendance at the International Exchange Program, Hanguk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea).
Research interests: Korean Buddhism, esoteric Buddhism, apotropaic-divination rituals, use of dhāraṇī in Korean Buddhist rituals, Korean history and philology.