Melanie Trede
 

Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede

Contact

Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede
Professor, Histories of Japanese Art

Room: 120.01.01
Tel.: 06221 - 54 15376
Fax: 06221 - 54 3387
E-Mail: melanie.trede@zo.uni-heidelberg.de

 

Currently Professor Trede is not accepting new graduate students.

 

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
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