Topic : Metadata and Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts: Digitization Projects and Online Repositories
Andrea ACRI
École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), PSL University
Andrea Acri (PhD Leiden University, 2011) is Maître de conférences/Tenured Assistant Professor in Tantric Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, PSL University) in Paris. Prior to joining the EPHE in 2016 he has held various research and teaching positions in India (Nalanda University), Singapore (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS and ARI, NUS), Australia (ANU), and the Netherlands (IIAS). He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Journal of Yoga Studies. His main research and teaching interests are Śaiva and Buddhist tantric traditions in South and Southeast Asia, Yoga studies, Sanskrit and Old Javanese philology, and Balinese Hinduism. His publications include the monograph Dharma Pātañjala (Egbert Forsten/Brill 2011; Aditya Prakashan 2017; Indonesian translation EFEO/Gramedia 2018), as well as various edited volumes and articles in international academic journals.