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.
![Dr. Franz Xaver Erhard, Leipzig University](https://i0.wp.com/research.uni-leipzig.de/diverge/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FX-Erhard.jpg?w=700&ssl=1)
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.
![Prof Robert Barnett, SOAS London](https://i0.wp.com/research.uni-leipzig.de/diverge/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/robert-barnett-photo.jpg?w=700&ssl=1)
The political analyst and historian of modern Tibet Prof Robert Barnett (SOAS) will be the PI from the UK side.
![Prof Nathan W. Hill, Trinity College Dublin](https://i0.wp.com/research.uni-leipzig.de/diverge/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Nathan-W-Hill-e1676882529507.jpg?w=700&ssl=1)
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
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- 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](https://i0.wp.com/research.uni-leipzig.de/diverge/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Uni-Leipzig.png?resize=173%2C73&ssl=1)
![SOAS London](https://i0.wp.com/research.uni-leipzig.de/diverge/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SOAS.png?resize=178%2C71&ssl=1)
- Leipzig University
- SOAS University of London