Dr. Franz Xaver Erhard

Dr. Franz Xaver Erhard

Research Fellow

Zentralasienwissenschaft (Tibetologie/Mongolistik)
Strohsackpassage
Nikolaistraße 10, Room 2.12
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37147
Fax: +49 341 97-37148

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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more projects

  • 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.
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  • Erhard, F. X.; Galli, L. (Eds.)
    The Selfless Ego. Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing
    New York: Routledge. 2021.
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more publications

  • 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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