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Curriculum Vitae

Valentina GEORGIEVA

e-mail address: georgieva.valentina@gmail.com;

Education 2000	Ph.D. Leiden University, the Netherlands. Dissertation “Buddhist Nuns in China: from the Six Dynasties to the Tang” 1989	M.A. (“Kandidatuur”) Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Thesis “On the Historicity and Philosophy of “Liezi: The Authentic Book of Highest Virtue and Absolute Void.” Diploma obtained with three distinctions (cum laude) for each year of undergraduate and graduate study, and a great distinction (magna cum laude) for the final year and thesis. 1987	B.A. (“Licentiaat”) Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. 1984	Student at Kiril i Metodija University, Skopje, Macedonia. Germanic Languages: English and German; certificates for attended courses.

Academic Work, Grants and Projects 2007-2016	Translation work on the Lives of Eminent Buddhist Monks (Gaoseng zhuan, T.2059) which is currently being finalized and polished, and is to be published by the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai. Oct. 2010	Commencement work on research towards a new translation of the Abhidharma-kośa-bhāṣya, (Apidamojushelun, T. 1558), under the consultancy of professor Alexander L. Mayer of the University of Illinois and under the auspicies of the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai, Tokyo. 2005-2007	Research fellowship for “Motherly Kindness and Ethics in Chinese Traditional Thought and Religion” project from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, US Branch, in concurrent affiliation with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2003-2005	Post-doctoral fellowship grant for the project on the research and translation of the Yellow Book of Regulations for ‘Crossing-over’ in Highest Purity (Shangqing Huangshu Guoduyi) from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, European Branch, in affiliation with Leiden University. 1999-2000	Ph.D. student grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. 1994-1995	Funding from the Dutch National Organization for Research in Science: guest-researcher at Taishō Daigaku (Tokyo, Japan, one trimester), the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) and Department of Philosophy, Peking University (one trimester). 1991-1993	Ph.D. specialization grant for Ph.D. students of Nuffic (organization for sponsoring European scholarly exchange). (obtained twice) 1993-1997	Assistant (title: “AIO” “Assistent-In-Opleiding”) at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, sponsored by the Research School - CNWS (School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies). Key foci: social and intellectual history, hermeneutics and history of religion, especially Chinese Buddhism and Daoism. Courses taught: “Chinese Buddhist Texts” and “Classical Chinese Literature”. 1989-1991	Research assistant at the department of Sinology, East Asian Philology and History, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Duties: Assistant in Chinese-Japanese library; participation in a group project on the translation of the Daode jing.

Publications ◊	Buddhist Nuns of Early Medieval China, based on my Ph.D. dissertation, in negotiation with the I.B. Tauris Publishers, forthcoming. ◊	“‘Crossing-over’ to Immortality in the Daoist Ritual Regulations of the Highest Purity” forthcoming in the journal of East Asian History, the on-line edition http://www.eastasianhistory.org/38/Georgieva ◊	“Representation of Buddhist Nuns in Chinese Edifying Miracle Tales during the Six Dynasties and the Tang,” Journal of Chinese Religions, Autumn 1996, 47-76. ◊	“The Chinese Buddhist Nuns: Earlier and Now,” in China-Nu, Leiden, November 1996 (article published in Dutch). ◊	“Review of Kathryn Ann Tsai’s (transl.), Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries. A Translation of the P’i-ch’iu-ni chuan, compiled by Shi Pao-ch’ang.” published in T’oung Pao LXXXI, 81/SH/120595, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1995. ◊	“The Old China in the New,” in Kultuurleven, Leuven, Belgium, June 1990. ◊	Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, in cooperation with Sasha Konechni, Scarecrow Press, 1998. ◊	“Continuation of the discussion for the recognition of Macedonia,” De Standaard, April, 1992.

Public Presentations ◊	Interview on the innovative role of women in Buddhism in China from early medieval times to today, for the program “Hemelsbreed” (in Dutch) www.boeddhistischeomroep.nl, January 7, 2012. ◊	“Buddhist Sisters vs. Christian Brides: Feminine Monastic Identity and its Symbolism,” at the Seminar “Religious Women in the Premodern World,” a three-day symposium on nuns in premodern Asia and Europe, held at Chateau de la Bretesche, Missilac, France, July 6-9, 2008. ◊	“Some Positive and Negative Images of Women in Buddhism and their Influence on Chinese Society as Reflected in Chinese History Writing from the Six Dynasties to the Tang,” Chinese and Comparative Historiography and Historical Culture Conference held in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 1999. ◊	“Chinese women following in the footsteps of Mahāprajāpatī- the first Indian Buddhist nun,” European Association of Chinese Studies in Barcelona, 1996. ◊	“The Images of Nuns in Miracle Stories in the Early Chinese Medieval Dynasties” (Zaoqi zhongguo zhiguai xiaoshuo zhong biiuni de yixiang “早期中國志怪小說中比丘尼的意象) presented in Chinese at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, on March 3, 1995. ◊	“Representation of Buddhist Nuns in Early Chinese Tales of the Supernatural (Zhiguai xiaoshuo),” European Association of Chinese Studies in Prague, 1994. ◊	“The Position and Role of Chinese Laywomen and Nuns within the Sangha and in Society in the Period from the fourth to the ninth century AD,” Seminar Buddhist Lay Believers, CNWS, Leiden, May 18, 1993. ◊	“Introduction in the History and Philosophy of Buddhism,” lecture at the Center for Women in St. Niclaas (Belgium), May 11, 1993. ◊	“The Position of Women in China Through the Reports of the Jesuit Mission (1583-1666),” Jesuits in China Conference, Leiden University, April 1993.

Other Employment and Voluntary Work 2000-2003		General assistant, Obunsha Atlantic N.V., (branch of Obunsha, Tokyo, a Japanese publishing company). -Interpreting, translation, and management with occasional research projects; library work; communication conducted in Japanese, Dutch, English and French. 1989-1990		Tour-guide for Europalia Japan working at five exhibitions, “Human Image and Reflection”, “Nō Theater”, “Namban Art”, “The Art of Japanese Lacquer”, “The Attire of the Imperial House”, in Dutch and English in Brussels at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Palais du Cinquantenaire, Pagode Japonaise et Pavillon Chinois, and Palais Royal. Voluntary Work 2014-2016		Work for Terre des Hommes, Leiden, the Netherlands. 2013-2016		Teaching Introduction to Buddhism in Chinese History and Buddhist Meditation. 1991-1992		Collaboration as a translator and interpreter on the documentary “Macedonia: the Last Peace on the Balcans” BRTv of Flanders. 1992		Interpreter on a peace mission to Macedonia led by Willy Kuijpers, a Flemish parliament member.

Languages Fluent reading, writing and speaking knowledge: Macedonian, English, Dutch, German, Serbian and Croatian Fluent reading and speaking knowledge: Chinese and Japanese Strong reading and speaking knowledge: French Basic reading knowledge: Latin