Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede

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Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede
Professor, Histories of Japanese Art
Deputy Head of Institute

Currently Professor Trede is not accepting new graduate students.

Courses in winter semester 2021/22

Research Interests

• histories of Japanese art
• pictorial narratives
• gender issues in the visual field
• political iconographies
• art historiography and terminologies
• collecting histories
• exhibition strategies
• transcultural studies
• materiality studies
• the concept of the "frame"

Member of Professional Organisations, Advisory Boards

• Founding Member, European Association of East Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), since 2013
• Member, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, since November, 2012
• Member, International Advisory Board, „Presentation of non-European Collections in the Humboldt-Forum,” Berlin National Museums, since 2010
• Art Association, Heidelberg (Heidelberger Kunstverein), Deputy Director, Advisory Board since July, 2009
• Association of Asian Studies, Inc.
• European Association of Japanese Studies
• Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte, Berlin
• Impressions, advisory and editorial board since 2002
• Japanese Art History Forum, USA
• The Japan Art History Society
• Japanese Art Association (formerly: Ukiyoe Society of America, Inc.), board member, 2000-2003

Administration, Service to the Field

• 2013-2015: Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Heidelberg University
• November 2012: Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• October 2012: Member, Academia Europaea
• November 2012-October 2017: Cluster of Excellence: “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows,” Heidelberg University, Principal Investigator; German Research Foundation
• July 2011-June 2015: Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 933) “Material text cultures: Materiality and Presence in non-typographical Societies”, Heidelberg University, Head of Subproject B07: Aspects of Mediality and Materiality of illuminated handscrolls in medieval Japan
• Since 2011: Scientific Advisory Board, with Jan-Christian Gertz, Markus Hilgert, Bernd Schneidmüller, Christian Witschel of the book series “Materiale Textkulturen”, deGruyter Publishers, Berlin
• Since 2010 Member, International Advisory Board, "Presentation of non-European Collections in the Humboldt-Forum", Berlin National Museums
• Since 2010: Speaker, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
• Since 2010: Editor, with Susanne Enderwitz and Stefan Weinfurter (in 2013, replaced by Niklas Jaspert) of the book series “Heidelberger Transkulturelle Studien,” Winter Publishers, Heidelberg
• October 2007-2012: Cluster of Excellence: “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows,” Heidelberg University, Principal Investigator; German Research Foundation
• Since 2007: Evaluations for applications at the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• Since 2006: Screening committee member for the Olympia Morata Program, scholarship for women scholars working on their second PhD (Habilitation), Heidelberg University,
• 2005-2010: Dean of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Heidelberg University (re-elected 2008)
• 2004-2010: Deputy Director, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
• Since 2002: Editorial board of the refereed journal Impressions