Dr. Jarmila Ptáčková

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Implementation of the Chinese development policy in Tibet.
• Environment and lifestyle changes of pastoral communities in Eastern Tibet under the impact of modernization.
• China's environmental policy in the Tibetan grassland areas.
• Transformation and urbanization of rural areas and sedentarisation of pastoralists in Eastern Tibet.
• History of Sino-Tibetan relations.
• Identity transformation and cross-border relations in the Himalayan region.

 EDUCATION

• 2007-2013: doctoral study program in Tibetan studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Institute of Asia and Africa, department of Central Asia.
• 2000-2006: master (M.A.) in Chinese Studies, Central Asian Studies and Spanish at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Institute of Asia and Africa. 

ACADEMIC CAREER

• since 2018 external semester teaching at Humboldt University, Berlin and at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
• since 2014 at the Oriental Institute ASCR.
• 2013-2014 Humboldt University, Berlin, Institute of Asia and Africa, department of Central Asia (Tibetan Studies), assistant professor.
• 2011-2013 Humboldt University, Berlin, Institute of Asia and Africa, department of Central Asia (Tibetan Studies), teaching assignment.2010, december, Helmholtz-Cetrum, Leipzig, scientific emloyee.
• 2009-2011 University of Leipzig, Institute of Ethnology, research assignment for a program funded by the EC.2007 University of Minorities, Xining, China, (fieldwork). 

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

International cooperation

• Academia Sinica, Wang Ming-ke: Communities, Histories and Civilizations. Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei
• University of Leipzig, Franz Xaver Erhard: Divergent Discourses. Funded by DFG

Grants and Projects

• 2019-2023: Lumina Quaeruntur AV ČR: Balancing the Interests of the State and Its Internal Others in Contemporary China: The Interaction of China’s Ethnic and Foreign Policy (team member)
• 2015-2017: GAČR - China’s Cultural Diplomacy: Regional Variations and the Role of Non-State Actors, GARC, Academy of Science, Prag (participant)
• 2009-2011: EC -  Range Enclosure on the Tibetan Plateau of China: Impacts on Pastoral Livelihoods, Marketing, Livestock Productivity and Rangeland Biodiversity (participant) 

Membership:

• IATS Board
• Coordinator of the „Amdo Research Network“ (https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/centralasia/research/projects/current/amdo-research-network)
• Association for Asian Studies
• Deutsche Vereingung fuer Chinastudien