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, 1955-62Erhard, Franz XaverDuration: 04/2023 – 03/2026Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Andere ausländische öffentliche ForschungsfördererInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
- Secular Life Writing in Early Modern Tibet. A Study of Kalon Tenzin Paljor's Autobiography "Music of Candid Speech"Erhard, Franz XaverDuration: 07/2016 – 11/2021Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
- Erhard, F. X.Media and Printing in Tibet since 1950: A Preliminary Survey of Tibetan Language Journals and MagazinesIn: Grokhovskiy, P. (Ed.)Modernizing the Tibetan Literary Tradition. Saint Petersburg: St Petersburg Univ Press. 2018. pp. 110–134.
- Erhard, F. X.; Haoran, H.The Melong in Context: A Survey ofthe Earliest Tibetan Language Newspapers 1904–1960In: Wang-Toutain, F.; Preziosi, M. (Eds.)Paris: BET, Collège de France. 2018. pp. 1–40.
- Erhard, F. X.Tibetan Mass Media: A Preliminary Survey of Tibetan Language NewspapersIn: Czaja, O.; Hazod , G.; Jackson , D. P.; Ehrhard, F.-K. (Eds.)The Illuminating Mirror. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. 2015. pp. 155–171.
- Erhard, F. X.; Wild, T.Drumze. Metamorphoses of the Tibetan CarpetPPotsdam: edition tethys. 2022.ISBN: 978-3-942527-16-2
- Erhard, F. X.; Galli, L. (Eds.)The Selfless Ego. Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life WritingNew York: Routledge. 2021.ISBN: 9780367693985
- Internationale Konferenz4th International Seminar of Young TibetologistsZentralasienwissenschaft (Tibetologie/Mongolistik)Event Organiser: Erhard, Franz Xaver; Soerensen, Per Kjeld07/09/2015 – 12/09/2015