Dagmar Schwerk

Historic red streetcar labeled 'Lonsdale' displayed indoors with visitors observing it closely.

As we head into the final weekend before #AAS2026, now is a great time to review your packing checklist. Conference clothes, electronics chargers, travel documents—plus a tote bag and reusable water bottle for use on-site!

Attending #AASVancouver? Be sure to check out the Entangled Territories exhibition and special events at @moaubc.bsky.social

#himalaya #tibet #anthropology #AAS2026

What can an iconic work of analog electronic synthesizer music tell us about global dynamics, cultural translation, the afterlives of displacement, and the role of sense experiences in religion? Read our interview with @dagmarschwerk.bsky.social here: recentglobe.hypotheses.org/3925

🌐 Have a look at our full #GlobeColloquium event program for this semester! Join us every Wednesday, 5.15 p.m. in room 5.55, Strohsackpassage, or on ZOOM! (Deviations possible) Full program and more info here: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/veranstal...

Celebrate the amazing @blankformseditions.bandcamp.com anthology on pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue! 📕

Jun 28, 2025, 3 – 4:30pm
RSVP www.blankforms.org/events/alien... Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue book launch

So happy contributing with an article about her Trilogie de la Mort! ✍🏻

Application DL for non-EU students in our M.A. Program Buddhist Studies and Contemplative Traditions 🧘🏻‍♀️☸️👩🏽‍🏫@unileipzig.bsky.social coming up! (May 31)

Combine excellent academic training with interdisciplinary research networks; and last, but not least, reasonable living costs! 😎
shorturl.at/AuHrA

Interview (in German only) on the occasion of starting my professorship & what‘s up the
horizon in my research and teaching
👩🏻‍🏫🌅

#tibetology #leipziguniversity #buddhiststudies

magazin.uni-leipzig.de/das-leipzige...

Honoured to contribute a piece about French composer Éliane Radigue’s profound synthesizer work Trilogie de la Mort to this fantastic anthology, celebrating the life/work of this outstanding female artist.
Amazing to write as both - a scholar and musician 👩🏻‍🏫🎶

#IWD2025 #elianeradigue #buddhism

The South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg is looking to appoint an anthropologist, and the search is open rank. Please share: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

And for those whose work focuses on South Asia, any culture, tradition, or discipline—though likely humanities and social sciences at its core

go.bsky.app/BugNwc7

This list too is a work in progress; please comment to be added or suggest adds.

#southasia #academia #asianstudies #humanities

New starter pack: Art Historians of South Asia and the Himalaya.

Niche for now, we need more colleagues #onhere, esp. those from the region. Please share names to add & encourage others.

go.bsky.app/2cGRKRC

#starterpack #SouthAsia #Himalaya #arthistory #visualculture #materialculture #academia

The Sanchi stupa, a half dome-shaped reliquary surrounded by a circumambulatory path, is a pilgrimage site for Buddhists and tourist attraction for persons of all faiths.

A Buddhist Studies Starter Pack is up and running! Envisioned as primarily academic, it’s also a place for librarians, publishers, and professional societies that work with Buddhist Studies to connect.

It’s a work in progress—add and share widely.

go.bsky.app/VQ843Yv

#Buddhism #Buddhist #academia

Excited to start my new job as Professor of Tibetology (with TT) at Leipzig University 👩🏻‍🏫
PS: looking forward to welcome you at the IABS 2025 Congress as a host!
www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/institut-...

Home - Dagmar Schwerk Hello, Kuzuzangpola, and Tashi Delek, I am a scholar in Tibetan and Bhutanese Studies, and I am currently working as a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for th...

Colleagues, my professional website is online 😁

🌐 dagmarschwerk.com

Check it out, and let me know what you think!

Please note: Accessibiliy and sustainability were implemented in the design's conception. As I am newbie here, please let me know what can be improved 🙏🏻

Thank you 🙏🏻 That‘s kind to say!

👩🏻‍🏫Over the moon to be starting as Professor of Tibetology at #leipziguniversity next term
👩‍🎓Check out our M.A. “Buddhist Studies and Contemplative Traditions”: 👉🏻Choose from 3 different foci: philological/interdisciplinary/without prior language skills
🛤️See me at the 20th #IABS Congress in Leipzig!

📝Happy to share my introduction about content, structure, and research value of the five #Bhutanese collections at the #britishlibrary Endangered Archives Programme.
➕addressing preservation of endangered textual collections in relation to #naturaldisaster and #climatecrisis.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#Drukrig Network of Bhutan Scholars invited me to speak about my #Bhutan research in their colloquium
⏰ 21 February, 6:00 PM Bhutan Standard Time/1:00 PM CET/7:00AM EST
📺 drukren.zoom.us/j/9375155058...
PS: It‘s on the auspicious day of the Drukgyelpo‘s birthday 😊

Please join me on Thursday, November 2, 5 PM (online or on-site in Oxford) to discuss my current research about identity- and nation-building in 18th-century Bhutan and where we are heading to in Himalayan Studies.
Here is the Zoom link, no registration needed:
tinyurl.com/TGSSOxfordMT