About - Eva WILDEN

Eva Wilden has been a scientific member (maître de confé-rences) of the EFEO since 2003, working on the critical re-edition and the transmission history of the Tamil Caṅkam corpus. Since 2014, she heads the ERC project “NETamil: ‘Going from Hand to Hand – Networks of Intellectual Ex-change in the Tamil Learned Traditions’ ”, jointly hosted by the University of Hamburg and the EFEO. In 2015 she re-ceived the Indian presidential award “Kural Peetam”. Since June 2017 she is a professor of Tamil and Manuscript Studies at the University of Hamburg.