Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Mgr. Martin Špirk, Ph.D., born on May 12, 1988 in Sušice, Czech Republic

Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts

• researcher I

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2024: Ph.D. (doctorate in Study of Religions), dissertation "We are Tibetan, and this is our story": the dynamics of discourses and propaganda strategies at the Tibet Museum in Dharamsala (in Czech), Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Brno
• 2014: Mgr. (master degree in Theory and Philosophy of Communication), diploma thesis: The Heuristic as a method and strategy of human cognition (in Czech), The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
• 2012: Bc. (bachelor degree in Humanities), bachelor thesis: Efforts to reform the sciences in modern philosophy: Bacon vs. Descartes (in Czech), University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

Teaching Activities

• RLMgB076 Buddhism and Film (2024)
• RLB666 The End of the World (2024)
• RLBc(K)A003 Buddhism II (2020, 2024)
• RLBc(K)A002 Buddhism I (2019-2021, 2023)
• RLBcB053 Tibetan Buddhism (2021)
• KSCA014 Academic Writing (2020)
• RLB405 Religion and Violence (2019)

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• 2022/10/31 – 2022/11/28: Tibet Museum, Dharamshala, Other programs, IND
  • During the study/research stay in Dharamsala, data will be collected for the new Tibet Museum's case study and the dissertation's final part. This stay should complete the comprehensive research on the self-presentation and propaganda strategies of the Tibetan government-in-exile, as applied during the twenty-two years of the Tibet Museum institution's existence.
• 2017/11/02 – 2017/11/30: University of Vienna, Vienna, CEEPUS, AUT
  • Data collection for a thesis.

Activities Outside University

• 2019: Expedition "McLeod Ganj (Dharamsala), Home of Dalai Lama", India
• 2017: Expedition "Buddhist Pilgrimage Sites in India", India

Major Publications

• ŠPIRK, Martin. Tibetanisticko-buddhologický workshop (Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Workshop). 2024. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Green Propaganda of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile: Environmentalism and Ecological Tendencies as Self-marketing Strategies of the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). In The 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, August 19-23, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2024. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin and Petr JANDÁČEK. Probuzení ze sna o Buddhovi? Buddhismus a LGBTQ+ nejen v Tibetu (Awakening from the Dream of Buddha). Dingir: religionistický časopis o současné náboženské scéně. Praha, 2024, vol. 27, No 3. ISSN 1212-1371. info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. „My jsme Tibeťané, a toto je náš příběh“ : narativy o tibetském buddhismu a další propagandistické strategie a techniky Tibetského muzea ("We are Tibetans, and this is our story" : narratives about Tibetan Buddhism and other propaganda strategies and techniques of the Tibet Museum). In 2. studentská konference orientalistů, 26. května 2023, FF UK Praha. 2023. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. “We are Tibetan, and this is our story” : The Dynamics of Discourses and Propaganda Strategies at the Tibet Museum in Dharamsala. In The European Association for the Study of Religions Conference, 4 - 8 September, 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2023. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. The Clash of Sino-Tibetan Propaganda On-screen : A Case Study of Tibetan Exile Movie Theatre. In The European Association for the Study of Religions Conference, online, 27 June-1 July, 2022, University College Cork, Ireland. 2022. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Projekt Buddha zblízka : unikát na české buddhologické scéně? (Project The Buddha Up Close : a uniqueness on the Czech Buddhological scene?). Religio: Revue pro religionistiku. Brno: Czech Association for the Study of Religions, 2022, vol. 30, No 2, p. 185-193. ISSN 1210-3640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/Rel2022-2-5. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Buddhismus a násilí : fakta a fikce (Buddhism and Violence : Facts and Fictions). Sacra. Masarykova univerzita, 2021, vol. 19, No 1, p. 51-58. ISSN 1214-5351. URL info
• VALTROVÁ, Jana, Milan FUJDA, Anna MICHALÍK KVÍČALOVÁ, Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ and Martin ŠPIRK. Ve smyslu Indie : tělesnost a rituál v indických tradicích (In The Sense of Indina : Embodiment and Ritual in Indian Traditions). 2021. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Display Cabinet of the Exile : A Discourse Analysis of the Tibet Museum in Dharamshala. In 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions IAHR Regional Conference Pisa, 30 August – 3 September 2021. 2021. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Vitrína tibetského exilu : případová studie Tibetského muzea v Dharamsale (Display cabinet of Tibetan exile : a case study of the Tibet museum in Dharamsala). Museologica Brunensia. 2021, vol. 10, No 2, p. 64-76. ISSN 1805-4722. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/MuB2021-2-5. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Mysl a tělo humanistického buddhismu v praxi : případová studie chrámu a komunity Fo Guang Shan ve Vídni (Mind and body of humanistic Buddhism in practice : a case study of the temple and community of Fo Guang Shan Vienna). Religio : revue pro religionistiku. Česká společnost pro religionistiku o.s., 2020, vol. 28, No 2, p. 115-139. ISSN 1210-3640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/Rel2020-2-1. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin and Jan TRTÍLEK. "Sacred Locations : Spaces and Bodies in Religion" : třetí ročník mezinárodní doktorandské religionistické konference. Religio: revue pro religionistiku. Česká společnost pro religionistiku o.s., 2020, vol. 28, No 1, p. 95-97. ISSN 1210-3640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/Rel2020-1-7. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Čínský buddhismus ve Vídni : etnografie chrámu a komunity Fo Guang Shan (Chinese Buddhism in Vienna : Ethnography of The Fo Guang Shan Temple and Community). Online. In Lukáš Pecha. Civilizace Asie a Afriky od starověku po současnost. Plzeň: Katedra blízkovýchodních studií, Filozofická fakulta Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, 2019, p. 104-116. ISBN 978-80-261-0786-6. URL info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Mind and Body of Humanistic Buddhism : Case Study of Temple and Community of FGS Vienna. In CEU/Szeged University Doctoral Conference, 13-15 June 2019, Szeged, Hungary. 2019. info
• ŠPIRK, Martin. Fo Guang Shan ve Vídni : etnografie buddhistického chrámu a komunity se zaměřením na materiální kulturu a strategie sebeprezentace (Fo Guang Shan in Vienna : ethnography of Buddhist temple and its community with focus on the material culture and self-presentation strategies). In 18. ročník kolokvia Orientalia Antiqua Nova (duben 26-27, 2018, Plzeň). 2018. info

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