Prof. Melanie Trede

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Education
Professional Experience
Scholarships and Awards (select)
Member of Professional Organisations, Advisory Boards
Organiser of Panels and Symposia
List of Publications
Current research projects

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

July 1999	PhD dissertation award "Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan story in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period. Studies of Pictorial Narrative in Japan,” "summa cum laude”, University of Heidelberg.
June 1994 - October 1996	Postgraduate Studies in the History of Japanese Art, Gakushûin University, Tokyo
April 1989 - May 1994	M.A.: History of East Asian Art, University of Heidelberg
March 1988 - March 1989	Japanese Language, Waseda University, Tokyo
April 1984 - February 1988	B.A.: History of European Art, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany
Professional Experience
since April 2004	Full Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Centre for East Asian Studies (ZO), University of Heidelberg
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 - August 1999	Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Institute of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg
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, University of Heidelberg
Scholarships and Awards (select)
September / October 2008	Travel Grant to deliver a paper in Tokyo, sponsored by the German Academic Research Association
Fellowships:
October 2007 – July 2008	Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
January – July 2003	Visiting Research Fellow, Gakushûin University, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo
Grants for Research Projects:
Fall 2001 and Summer 2007	The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto
Academic year 2005/06	Kajima bijutsu zaidan
January – August 2002	Culture Communication Fund, B.F., Tokyo and Amsterdam
February / March 1997 and June/July 2001	Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF), Tokyo
October / November 1998	Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Dissertation scholarships:
April 1996 - October 1996	Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF), Tokyo, April 1995 - March 1996 Kasumi Kaikan Foundation, Tokyo
June 1994 - March 1995	Japanese Foreign Ministry
Member of Professional Organisations, Advisory Boards
	Association of Asian Studies, Inc.
	European Association of Japanese Studies
	Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte, Berlin
	Japanese Art History Forum, USA
	Japan Art History Society (Bijutsushi gakkai)
	Japanese Art Society of America (prior: Ukiyoe Society of America, Inc.), board member, 2000-2003
	Impressions, advisory board since 2002
Organiser of Panels and Symposia
December 16/17 2009	Gender and Body in the Contemporary Arts organizer, international workshop within the cluster of excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context," University of Heidelberg Programme
September 2009	"Art", Section organiser of the 14th Japanese Studies Conference in Germany, University of Halle-Wittenberg
June 10, 2009	New Perspectives on pictorial narratives in Japan international workshop, Institute of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg Programme
June 8/9, 2009	Representations of Sexualities in Asian and European cultures organizer, international workshop within the cluster of excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", University of Heidelberg Programme
April 20/21, 2009	Theorizing Gender in a Transcultural World organizer, international workshop within the cluster of excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", University of Heidelberg Programme
July 2007	"Gender and Art history in a Global Context", organizer International Workshop, University of Heidelberg Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, Heidelberg Programme
August/September 2005	"No Borders to Cross: Challenging the Buddhist/Shinto, Sacred/Secular, and other (Alleged) Divides in Artistic Representations of Divinities", co-organizer with Cynthea Bogel
	The 11th Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Vienna
October 26, 2004	"Second Chino Kaori Memorial `New Visions` Lecture" featuring Prof. Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: "Women Artists: The Japanese Impulse, organizer" University of Heidelberg, Alte Aula
March 29, 2003	"Objects in Pieces: The Culture of the Fragment in Japan", organizer of the panel The Association of Asian Studies, New York City
March 22 and 23, 2003	"Critical Horizons: A Symposium on Japanese Art in Memory of Chino Kaori", Co-organizer with Melissa McCormick and Joshua Mostow of the international symposium co-hosted by Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
August 11, 2001	"The Politics of Art Patronage in Japan", Co-organiser with Alexander Hofmann, University of Heidelberg of the panel Second International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Berlin
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	Organiser and fund-raiser for the international workshop: "Collecting ‘art’ in pre-Meiji Japan”, sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York, the Mary Griggs Burke Foundation and private sponsors
February 20, 1999	"Expanding Edo Art", international workshop, Co-organizer with Prof. Henry D. Smith II, Columbia University; sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
List of Publications
Current research projects
research teams:	Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows", Cluster of Excellence, University of Heidelberg (2007-2011), Principal Investigator B4 “Transvisual Learning Group”
	B8 “Rethinking Gender, Sexuality and the Body in a Transcultural Art World" (person in charge)
	D1 “Historicizing the experience of violence without frontiers. Influence and importance of shifting asymmetries. The example of the Mongolian invasions in the thirteenth century.”
	“Transvisual Database”
	Bildkulturen interdisciplinary work group, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften chair person: Christoph Markschies 2008 - 2011, project member
	Studies on the Transmission of Culture communicated by "Things" and Images: Focussing on Japanese medieval literature and handscrolls chair person: Ikeda Shinobu, Chiba University grant by Ministry of culture and education, Japan 2008 - 2010, project member
individual research projects:	The political and visual manipulation of myths in Japanese pictorial narratives
	Art as Envoy in Times of Crisis: Mutual Exhibition Strategies of Germany and Japan in the 1930s and the 1940s