Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede
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Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (Japan) Telefon: (0)6221–54 15376 |
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Geschichte der japanischen Kunst
- illuminierte Narrative
- Genderfragen im visuellen Bereich
- Politische Ikonographie
- Kunstgeschichtsschreibung und Terminologien
- Sammlungsgeschichte
- Ausstellungsstrategien
- Digitale Kunstgeschichte
Anschrift
Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens
Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)
Universität Heidelberg
Vossstraße 2, Gebäude 4210
69115 Heidelberg
ZUR PERSON
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
- July 1999 PhD dissertation award "summa cum laude", Heidelberg University
- January 1999 Completion of PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University, "Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan story in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period. Studies of Pictorial Narrative in Japan"
- June 1994 – October 1996 Gakushûin University, Tokyo Postgraduate Studies in the History of Japanese Art
- April 1989 – May 1994 Heidelberg University, Germany Major: History of East Asian Art (M.A.)
- March 1988 – March 1989 Waseda University, Tokyo Major: Japanese Language
- April 1984 – February 1988 Free University Berlin, Germany Major: History of European Art, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies (B.A.)
- September 1980 – August 1981 Abbotsholme School, Staffordshire, England, English boarding school, A-level courses in European history and English literature
Berufliche Laufbahn
- Spring semester 2018 Visiting Professor for Japanese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York City
- since January 2015 Chair (W3 Professorship), Institute of East Asian Art History, Centre for East Asian Studies, Heidelberg University
- December 2014 Offer for the Chair of Asian Art History, Institute of Art History, Vienna University (declined)
- September 2011 – May 2012 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- since April 2004 Professor Centre for East Asian Studies, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
- September 1999 – January 2004 Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Specialty: History of Japanese Art
- January 1999 – June 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York
- November 1996 – December 1999 Assistant Professor Institute of East Asian Art History, Department of Art History, Heidelberg University
- March 1996 Participant of the 5th International Workshop on Japanese Art History for Junior Scholars (JAWS) in Japan
- October 1991 – September 1993 Member of research and editorial staff of the exhibition and catalogue "Japan and Europe 1543-1929" (exhibition: Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Fall 1993), Berlin Festival / Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
- February – March 1989 Internship, Department of Painting and Prints, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Yokohama
- March – April 1987 Internship, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne
- August – September 1986 Internship, National Gallery, Berlin
Stipendien, Förderungen und Auszeichnungen
- April 2013 – July 2014 Fellow, Marsilius-Kolleg, Heidelberg University
- October 2012 Member, Academica Europaea
- March 2 – 9, 2012 Annual guest speaker and visiting scholar, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
- September 2011 – May 2012 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- September / October 2008 Travel Grant to deliver a paper in Tokyo, sponsored by the German Academic Research Association
- October 2007 – July 2008 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
- October 2007 – September 2012 Cluster of Excellence: “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows,” Heidelberg University, Principal Investigator; German Research Foundation
- Summer 2007 The political and visual manipulation of myths in Japanese pictorial narratives, The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, research and travel grant
- Academic year 2005 / 06 The Image of Jingu kogo from the mid 19th to the early 20th centuries, research scholarship Kajima bijutsu zaidan (Kajima Art Foundation)
- January – July 2003 Visiting Research Fellow, Gakushûin University, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo
- January – August 2002 Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings: Cultural Politics in the 1430s, Culture Communication Fund, B.F., Tokyo and Amsterdam, research and travel grant
- Fall 2001 Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings: Cultural Politics in the 1430s, The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, research grant
- June / July 2001 Ashikaga Patronage of Hachiman Paintings Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF), Tokyo, summer grant
- October / November 1998 Seventeenth Century Pictorial Narratives, Research and Travel Grant from the Tokyo, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
- February / March 1997 Research grant, Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, Tokyo
- April 1996 – October 1996 Dissertation scholarship, Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation
- April 1995 – March 1996 Dissertation scholarship, Kasumi Kaikan Foundation, Tokyo
- June 1994 – March 1995 Dissertation scholarship, Japanese Foreign Ministry
- August – September 1991 travel and research grant for Japan, University Fund, Heidelberg University
MItgliedschaften
- Japanese Art Association (formerly: Ukiyoe Society of America, Inc.), board member, 2000-2003.
- Japan Art History Society (Bijutsushi gakkai)
- Japanese Art History Forum, USA
- Foundation for Japanese-German Cultural Relations (JaDe), member of board, Cologne
- Impressions, advisory and editorial board since 2002
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte, Berlin
- European Association of Japanese Studies
- Association of Asian Studies, Inc.
Wissenschaftliche Projekte
- „Japanische Querrollen und Digitale Explorationen: Materialität, Praktiken und Lokalität," Teilprojekt des im Juli 2019 zu bestätigenden Schwerpunktprogramms der DFG “Das Digitale Bild”, Laufzeit: Dez. 2019 - Nov. 2022
- „Dynamics of Looking,“ Exhibition project on Japanese narrative representations in European Collections at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, with Dr. Khanh Trinh (Museum Rietberg) and Prof. Estelle Leggeri-Bauer (Inalco, Paris), exhibition scheduled Spring – Summer 2021
- „Erstellung eines Digitalisierungskonzepts für Japanische Querrollen in deutschen Sammlungen” (Developing a concept for digitizing Japanese Scrolls in German Collections), “DIJAQ”, BMBF, Program “eHeritage,” Nov. 2016 – July 2017 (https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-1197.html)
- „Unsichtbare Netzwerke: Japanische Querrollen in deutschen Museumssammlungen um 1900 und in einer digitalen Zukunft” (Invisible Networks: Japanese handscrolls in German museum collections around 1900 and in a digital future), 4/2016 – 6/2017, 2/2017 – 10/2017: start-up fund to investigate the cultural heritage of the particular format in Japanese painting and calligraphy, the narrative handscroll, in German collections; and to develop strategies for a digital portal, which represents these handscrolls in innovative ways. Sponsored by the Field of Focus 3: “Cultural dynamics in globalized worlds,” excellence initiative, Heidelberg University; collaborators include the IT section, “Heidelberg Research Architecture” of the cluster of excellence, the Linden-Museum Stuttgart and additional German museums. https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/forschung/profil/field_of_focus_3/forschung/2016_trede.html
- 2016 – ongoing: Reading, translating into English and annotating art/architecture - related entries in the medieval diary Kanmon nikki: annual one-week workshops with an international group of ten+ scholars in Japanese art history; main organizer with Profs. Takagishi Akira, IDO Misato, Estelle Leggeri-Bauer.
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„Hachiman Digital Handscrolls” (HDH), 3/ 2014 – 2/ 2015: start-up fund for a pilot project to enhance digital tools to represent moving image and text data; sponsored by the Field of Focus 3: “Cultural dynamics in globalized worlds,” excellence initiative, Heidelberg University; jointly conducted with the IT section, “Heidelberg Research Architecture” of the cluster of excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (Heidelberg) and the software developers Hyperimage/ bitGilde (Berlin).
The result was launched on October 30, 2015: http://hachiman.uni-hd.de/ and a video film on the project was created for public television (Campus TV), screened on December 17, 2015 (see below, Publications—Blogs, Digital Publications, and Media Coverage) -
“Materiale Textkulturen. Materialität und Präsenz in non-typographischen Gesellschaften” (Material text cultures: Materiality and Presence in non-typographical Societies), Special Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (Sonderforschungsbereich) 933, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (July 2011-June 2015), Heidelberg University
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“Bildkulturen” (Cultures of Images), interdisciplinary research group, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2008 — 2011)
http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/Bildkulturen/de/Startseite -
“Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows,” Cluster of Excellence (five-year project, 2007-2012), Heidelberg University.
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Principal Investigator, deputy representative of research area B “Public Spheres” since 2007, member of various projects, among them:
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“Rethinking Gender, Body and Sexuality in a Transcultural Art World,” Series of four international, interdisciplinary workshops (2008-10), coordinator
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/b-public-spheres/b8.html -
“Historicizing the experience of violence without frontiers. Influence and importance of shifting asymmetries. The example of the Mongolian invasion in the thirteenth century,” together with Profs. Stefan Weinfurter, Susanne Enderwitz (2008-2011)
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/d-historicities-heritage/d1.html - Parcours Exhibition: Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming…”, with Martina Köppel-Yang, Heidelberg, December 2009 — March 2010, coordinator
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“Rethinking Gender, Body and Sexuality in a Transcultural Art World,” Series of four international, interdisciplinary workshops (2008-10), coordinator
- “Studies on the Transmission of Culture communicated by ‘Things’ and Images: Focussing on Japanese medieval literature and handscrolls,” organized by Ikeda Shinobu, Chiba University, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Japan (2008 — 2010).
- “Studies of Women Artists and Images of Women in Modern Japan”, organised by Ikeda Shinobu, Chiba University, and Mabuchi Akiko, Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Japan (2003—2006).
- “Collecting Materials and Producing an Iconographic Index of Early Modern Japanese Printed Model Books in Foreign Collections”, organised by Ôta Shôko, Kanazawa Art University, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Japan (2003—2006)
Konferenzen, Symposien und Vortragsreihen
- October/November, 1997: three-week-fieldtrip to Japan for 15 graduate students in East Asian Art History, organizer, Heidelberg University
- February 20, 1999: “Expanding Edo Art,” international workshop, co-organizer with Henry D. Smith II, Columbia University
- September 1999-June 2002: Program director for the lecture series of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. in New York and elsewhere
- May 1, 2000: “Collecting ‘art’ in pre-Meiji Japan,” international workshop, organizer, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
- August 11, 2001: “The Politics of Art Patronage in Japan,” panel, co-organizer with Alexander Hofmann, Second International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Berlin
- March 22 and 23, 2003: “Critical Horizons: A Symposium on Japanese Art in Memory of Chino Kaori,” international symposium, co-organizer with Melissa McCormick, and Joshua Mostow, co-hosted by Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- March 29, 2003: “Objects in Pieces: The Culture of the Fragment in Japan”, panel, organizer, The Association of Asian Studies, New York City
- October 26, 2004: “Second Chino Kaori Memorial `New Visions` Lecture” featuring Linda Nochlin: “Women Artists: The Japanese Impulse,” organizer, Heidelberg University
- Since Spring 2005 – present: Institutionalization and Organization of the “Ishibashi Visiting Professorship in Japanese Art History” at Heidelberg University, sponsored by the Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, filled every semester with scholars from Japan, Europe and the US
- August/September 2005: “No Borders to Cross: Challenging the Buddhist/Shinto, Sacred/Secular, and other (Alleged) Divides in Artistic Representations of Divinities,” panel, co-organiser with Cynthea Bogel, 11th Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Vienna
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July 2007: “Gender and Art history in a Global Context,” international workshop, organizer, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20070722_prog_work_gender.pdf -
April 20/21, 2009: “Theorizing Gender in a Transcultural World,” international workshop, organizer, cluster of excellence, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20090420-21_prog_work_gender.pdf -
June 8/9, 2009: “Representations of Sexualities in Asian and European cultures,“ international workshop, convener, cluster of excellence, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20090608_prog_work_sexualities.pdf -
June 10, 2009: “New Perspectives on pictorial narratives in Japan,” organizer, international workshop, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20090610_prog_work_genji.pdf -
September 30 - October 1, 2009: Japanische Kunstgeschichten im globalen Kontext: Neue Beiträge zur Bild- und Objektanalyse. [Japanese art history in a global context: new Studies on Picture and Object analyses], Art History Section, convener, 14th German-Speaking Japanese Studies Conference, University of Halle- Wittenberg
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December 16/17, 2009: “Gender and Body in the Contemporary Arts,“ international workshop, convener, cluster of excellence, Heidelberg University
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/b-public-spheres/b8/gender-body.html -
April – July, 2010: “Multi-centred modernisms – reconfiguring art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries” lecture series, co-organizer with Monica Juneja, Christiane Brosius; cluster of excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Heidelberg University
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July 10-12, 2010: “Living Legacies: The History of East Asian Art Reconsidered,” international conference in honor of Lothar Ledderose, convener, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/md/zo/iko/medien/veranstaltungen/20100710-12_symp_legacies.pdf - April 21, 2011: “Japanese art history in an intercultural exchange of science and practice,” convener, ‘Japan-day’ at Heidelberg University in celebration of the 150th anniversary of German-Japanese relationships http://iko.uni-hd.de/md/zo/iko/media/events/2011/2011_0421_japantag_folder.pdf
- September/October 2012: Kunstgeschichte und…?, Art History Section, convener, 15th German-speaking Japanese Studies Conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 7-10 March, 2017: New Insights into Manuscripts and printed books in early-modern Japan / 写本と版本, international workshop, co-organizer with ISHIKAWA Tôru, Keio University, ABE Yasurô, Nagoya University, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University
- 22 July, 2016: KYOTO: New Insights into the cultural history of Japan's "Ancient Capital", international symposium,organizer, Heidelberg University
- 29 February - 2 March, 2016: "Materialities of the Sacred in Japan and Europe: Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity " co-organizer with Anna Andreeva, ABE Yasurô,Joint conference, Heidelberg and Nagoya Universities, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University
- 12 December, 2015: "50 Years: East Asian Art History in Heidelberg, 1965 - 2015,"symposium, co-organizer with Sarah E. Fraser, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
- 20-22 October, 2015: "Histories of Japanese Art and their Global Contexts: New Directions," co–organizer with Mio Wakita ,international symposium, Heidelberg University
- 31 October - 2 November, 2014: “Transcultural Framing(s): Materials and Metaphors”, co-organizer, international conference, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University
- 9 October, 2014: „Mediating Art, Exhibitions and Art Criticism in Times of Crises: Japan, China and Europe in the mid twentieth century,” panel organizer and chair, Annual Conference, Cluster of Excellence: “Cultural Mediation: Creativity, Display, Performance,“ Heidelberg University
