Victor SECCO
- Position
- Research Grant Holder
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victor.secco@unive.it
- Website
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www.unive.it/people/victor.secco (personal record)
EDUCATION
Current - PhD in Social Anthropology – Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Thesis: “Microbiology in the waters of the Ganges: a matter of life and death”
- Supervisors: Prof Penelope Harvey and Dr Soumhya Venkatesan
- Awarded School of Social Sciences Studentship
2018 - Master’s degree in Social Anthropology – University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Dissertation: “Pollution, dams, and sacred water: green and saffron politics on the Ganges River”
2013 - Masters's degree in Visual Anthropology – University of Barcelona, Spain
2011 - Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences – University of São Paulo, Brazil
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters in preparation
Secco, V. Fluid futures: Water, religion and science in Banaras. In: Lazzaretti, V., Williams, P., Zara, C. (eds). Banaras Tense: Urban grounds and future-making in the “timeless city”. (chapter accepted)
Secco, V. Micro-biosocial diversity in the Ganges River: antibiotic modernity and the revival of phage therapy. In: Kavesh, M. and Fijn, N. (eds): Nurtining Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World. (revised chapter submitted)
Book Review (forthcoming)
Secco, V. (2023). Science and Religion in India by Renny Thomas. Society and Culture in South Asia.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2022
Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities – Venice International University
· Paper: "Water bodies in between Homo microbis and Homo ritualis"
2021
Anthropology and Conservation - Royal Anthropological Institute
· Paper: “Living with microbes and gods: anti and pro-biotic approaches to the Ganges River”
12th International Convention of Asia Scholars – International Institute for Asian Studies
· Paper: “Snakes and Drains: myth, environment, and politics in Varanasi”
36th Conference of the International Society for Sociology of Religion
· Paper: “Gangajal and bacteriophages: the Ganges at the intersection of science and religion”
15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
· Paper: “Gangajal: Human-microbe-divine relationships by the Ganges”
Waterworlding: Reflecting on Multiple Waters – University of Marburg
· Paper: “Swimming with the trouble: science and religion in the waters of the Ganges”
2020
Durham Postgraduate Conference – University of Durham
· Paper: “Friend or Foe: Human-Virus Relationships and Global Health”
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
2020- 2022 - Social Anthropology Teaching Assistant – University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Key Ideas in Social Anthropology
- Introduction to Ethnographic Reading
- Ethnographer’s Craft (Qualitative Methodology)
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, Hindi
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