02/11/2023
In October 2023 Dr. Carola Lorea, alumna of the XXVII cycle PhD in Asian and African Civilisations (SIAC curriculum), currently a researcher at the University of Tübingen, has been awarded the prestigious Erc Synergy Grant to the amount of around € 10 million for the project 'Mantrams' (Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia), of which she is PI together with two colleagues from the University of Vienna and Brown University.
Dr Lorea discussed her doctoral thesis entitled 'Learning to Swim in the River of Desire: Bhabla Pagla's Songs in Their Performative Context' in 2015 under the guidance of prof. Mario Prayer as supervisor and Prof. Samantak Das (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) as co-supervisor. Warm congratulations from the Doctoral College to Dr Lorea and felicitations also to the colleagues who supervised her doctoral training.
For more information: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/attempto-online/newsfullview-attempto-en/article/carola-lorea-receives-erc-synergy-grant-to-study-mantras/