Silvia Seligson

Social anthropologist graduated from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and Master's and PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters/Institute of Anthropological Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on religious diversity and cultural identity in Korea. Researcher and curator at the National Museum of Cultures of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), in Mexico City, from 1986 to date. There she has collaborated in the installation of the permanent galleries of Japan, China and Korea, as well as in several temporary and traveling exhibitions and lecture series. She has given numerous courses, seminars and lectures in various national and foreign institutions, as well as in radio and television programs, and has published several texts on these East Asian cultures. She has taught at several universities on Pre-Hispanic Art, Cultural History and Art in China, Korea and Japan, Comparative Religions and Buddhist Art. She is an active member of the Latin American Association of Asian and African Studies (ALADAA) and the Mexican Society for the Study of Religion (SMER). Since 2003 she has participated in the lecture series "Man and the Sacred" of the SMER and in the Diploma of Religions of the UNAM, as well as in the courses for curators of Korean art organized every year, since 2000, by the Korea Foundation in Seoul and other cities of the Republic of Korea.