Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2023
  Research Fellow, Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University, PI of the DFG/AHRC-funded project "Divergent Discourses"
• since 10/2022
  Research fellow; interim for the professorship of Tibetology, Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig
• 07/2017 - 11/2021
  Research Fellow, Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University, PI of the DFG-funded project "Secular Life Writing"
• 01/2019 - 06/2019
  departmental lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Oriental Institute, Oxford University
• 10/2016 - 07/2017
  Junior Research Fellow in Tibetan & Himalayan Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University

Education

• 07/2015 - 09/2016
  post-doc in the Research Academy Leipzig (RAL) class "Religious Nonconformism and Cultural Dynamics"
• 10/2010 - 06/2015
  PhD programme in the DFG graduate school "Religous Nonkonformism and cultural Dynamics"

• Divergent Discourses: Processes of Narrative Construction in Tibet, 1955-62

  Erhard, Franz Xaver

  Duration: 04/2023 – 03/2026

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Andere ausländische öffentliche Forschungsförderer

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
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• Secular Life Writing in Early Modern Tibet. A Study of Kalon Tenzin Paljor's Autobiography "Music of Candid Speech"

  Erhard, Franz Xaver

  Duration: 07/2016 – 11/2021

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
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• Erhard, F. X.

  Media and Printing in Tibet since 1950: A Preliminary Survey of Tibetan Language Journals and Magazines

  In: Grokhovskiy, P. (Ed.)

  Modernizing the Tibetan Literary Tradition. Saint Petersburg: St Petersburg Univ Press. 2018. pp. 110–134.
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• Erhard, F. X.; Haoran, H.

  The Melong in Context: A Survey ofthe Earliest Tibetan Language Newspapers 1904–1960

  In: Wang-Toutain, F.; Preziosi, M. (Eds.)

  Paris: BET, Collège de France. 2018. pp. 1–40.
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• Erhard, F. X.

  Tibetan Mass Media: A Preliminary Survey of Tibetan Language Newspapers

  In: Czaja, O.; Hazod , G.; Jackson , D. P.; Ehrhard, F.-K. (Eds.)

  The Illuminating Mirror. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. 2015. pp. 155–171.
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• Erhard, F. X.; Wild, T.

  Drumze. Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet

  PPotsdam: edition tethys. 2022.

  ISBN: 978-3-942527-16-2
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• Erhard, F. X.; Galli, L. (Eds.)

  The Selfless Ego. Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing

  New York: Routledge. 2021.

  ISBN: 9780367693985
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• Internationale Konferenz

  4th International Seminar of Young Tibetologists

  Zentralasienwissenschaft (Tibetologie/Mongolistik)

  Event Organiser: Erhard, Franz Xaver; Sörensen, Per Kjeld

  07/09/2015 – 12/09/2015
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