Research keywords (4)：
Buddhist cultural history
, Art history
, Archaeology
, Central Asia
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：
2022 - 2026 Monasteries and secularity in Indian Buddhism from the Gupta period onward
2022 - 2025 Documentation and Study on Khotan-related Visual Themes in the arts of Dunhuang (9th to 11th centuries)
2018 - 2022 Comprehensive Studies of Indian Buddhist Monasteries from the Gupta Period Onward
2019 - 2021 Contextualizing Ancient Remains. Networks of Buddhist Monasteries in Central Asia
2004 - 2006 唐宋期龍門の中核寺院大奉先寺の研究
Papers (28)：
Erika Forte. ‘Khotanese Themes’ in Dunhuang: Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th-11th Centuries. Buddhism in Central Asia II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, Edited by Yukiyo Kasai Henrik H. Sørensen. 2022. 118-152
Erika Forte. Images of Patronage in Khotan. Buddhism in Central Asia I. 2020. 40-60
Forte, Erika. Introduction to "Ancient central Asian Networks". BuddhistRoad Paper 6.1. 2019
Erika Forte. Ancient central Asian networks : rethinking the interplay of religions, art and politics across the Tarim Basin (5th-10th c.). BuddhistRoad Paper 6.1. Special Issue. 2019
Carmen Meinert, Henrik Sørensen, Erika Forte, Yukiyo Kasai. Dynamics in Buddhist transfer in Eastern Central Asia 6th-14th centuries. Medieval worlds: comparative and interdisciplinary studies. 2018. 8
The Eight Protectors in Dunhuang: Khotanese Kingdom’s Avatars in a Chinese Visual Context
(66th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EASTERN STUDIES 2022)
Depictions of Auspicious Statues: Khotan-Dunhuang Aller-retour
(Connecting Dunhuang: Sites, Art, and Ideas along the Silk Road(s) 2022)
How many Mashe/Ma dza monasteries existed in Ancient Khotan?
(Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference 2022, Panel on Unearthing networks in the Buddhist world: cases from central and East Asia 2022)
‘Khotanese’ Themes in Dunhuang. Visual and Ideological Transfer in the 9th-11th Centuries
(Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th C. - Part II: Visual and Material Transfer, Practices and Rituals)
The Eight Great Protectors reunited? Patterns of patronage and legitimation in Khotan
(The 24th conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art 2018)
Education (2)：
1998 - 2002 Genoa University Ph.D. Indian and East-Asian Art
1988 - 1992 Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) Faculty of Letters, Department of Oriental Studies University Degree in Humanities
Awards (1)：
2010/09 - China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Confucius Institute Visiting Program for Foreign Scholars of Sinology to China
Association Membership(s) (4)：
International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS)
, European Society for Studies of Central Asia and Himalayan Regions (SEECHAC)
, European Association of South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA)
, Association for Asian Studies
