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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, Masarykova univrerzita, 18. 3. 2024, Brno, ČR). 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 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions : "Nature, Ecology, and Religious Responses to Climate Change", Faculty of Humanities, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 19–23 August, 2024. 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: Dingir, s.r.o., 2024, vol. 27, No 3. ISSN 1212-1371. URL info
  • ŠPIRK, Martin. Tibetanisticko-buddhologický workshop, 18. března 2024, Brno. Religio: Revue pro religionistiku. Brno, 2024, vol. 32, No 2, p. 345-347, 404 pp. ISSN 1210-3640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/Rel2024-38676. URL 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, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4–8 September 2023. 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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