The project will bring together a researcher in Germany with two researchers from the UK, together with an international Co-I on the UK side, in an interdisciplinary, joint UK-German effort to develop and apply methodologies so far untried in modern Tibetan studies.
The philologist specialising in modern Tibetan literature and early Tibetan-language newspapers Dr Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig) will be the PI from the German side.
The political analyst and historian of modern Tibet Prof Robert Barnett (SOAS) will be the PI from the UK side.
The historical linguist and scholar of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese Prof Nathan Hill (SOAS/TCD) will be the international co-investigator on the UK side, based at Trinity College, Dublin.
Cooperations
Divergent Discourses cooperates with
- the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- the library of the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig
Institutions
the collaborative Divergent Discourses project is hosted at
- Leipzig University
- SOAS University of London