Dr. Marie Yasunaga

Book chapters:

• “Karl Ernst Osthaus’s Museum Folkwang and Kōjirō Matsukata’s Kyōraku Bijutsukan: Two Museum Concepts in the Age of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” in Renoir, Monet, Gauguin: Images of a Floating World. The Collection of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus (ext.cat.), Museum Folkwang, Essen, Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 2022, pp. 172-194. ISBN: 978-3-7757-5127-8.
• “How to exhibit the un-exhibitable. Karl With and the Yi Yuan Museum of Eduard von der Heydt in Amsterdam”, in Arts of Display. Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 65, ed. by H. Perry Chapman, Frits Scholten and Joanna Woodall, Leiden; Boston, Brill, 2015, pp. 320-353. (peer-reviewed)

Articles:

• "Edo no toshikūkan wo egaku. Sankō toshokan shozō, Hasegawa Settan hitsu 'Edo meisho zue shitae' nikan ni tsuite"(Capturing the Urban Spaces of Edo: Hasegawa Settan's Original Sketches for the Edo Meisho Zue in Sanko Library," Ukiyo-e Art, International Ukiyo-e Society, no. 184 (July 2022), pp. 5-26. (Peer-reviewed)
• Gamze Saygi and Marie Yasunaga, "The Digital Urban Experience of a Lost City: Using Mixed Methods to Depict the Historical Street Life of Edo/Tokyo," Magazén: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities, vol. 2. No. 2 (10December 2021), Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 193-224. http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2021/04/002. (Peer-reviewed)

Invited Talks & Conference Papers:

• Keynote speech with Danielle van den Heuvel, 'Visual sources as a gateway to ephemeral practices of buying and selling in premodern Eurasia', Practices of marketing and consumption in the pre-modern city, Annual Meeting of Workgroup 'Material Culture and Consumption in Early Modern Period', Saarbrücken, Graduate Center, November 17-18, 2023.
• Invited Lecture: "The freedom of the streets: Gender in the early modern urban space of Edo through Hasegawa Settan's 'Preparatory Sketches for the Illustrated Guidebook of Famous Places in Edo' in the Sanko Library", the 4th online lecture as part of the 120th year celebration lecture series program, Sanko Library, Tokyo, January 9, 2023. (In Japanese)
• Van den Heuvel, Danielle, Bob Pierik, Antonia Weiss, Marie Yasunaga (joint presentation), "Gender and Streets: Do Women disappear from the streets when cities modernize?," Claiming the Streets, University of Amsterdam, June 16-18, 2022.
• Yasunaga, Marie. (Panel convenor), "Negotiating Gender and/through Visual Images: Female Bodies in Japan from the early modern to present," and paper presenter, "Give Me a Break: Performing Gender and the Art of Smoking in Edo," The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), Leiden, July 16-19, 2019.
• Yasunaga, Marie. "Functional Integration in the Arts: Intercultural Art Historical Practices by Karl With," 107th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York City, February 13-16, 2019.

Project Management:

2018 - 2022  Edo sub-project in the Freedom of the Streets project

• I was responsible for establishing and maintaining network with scholars, curators, and architects in universities, museums, and research institutions in diverse profession and disciplines in Japanese studies;
• Initiated and led the digitization project of historical maps in the collection of Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden.

Academic Events & Conferences:

2022       European Association for Urban History (EAUH) - session convener

• I co-drafted the session abstract and call for papers for the main session ‘'Gender, Space and Everyday Mobility,' at the Conference of the European Association for Urban History (Antwerp, August 31 - September 3, 2022)
  

2019      International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11) - panel convener

• I convened panel ‘Negotiating Gender and/through Visual Images: Female Bodies in Japan from the early modern to present’. This involved drafting the panel abstract, inviting external speakers, communicating with speakers (July 16-19, 2019).

2009-2012 University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy - lecture series program, international conference organization

• Together with three organizing team members, we organized in total 8 lectures, 7 seminars, 3 workshops, 3 international symposiums, and one final colloquium for the mid-term project Reconstruction of Image Studies led by prof. A. Miura;
• Of which, I led organizing team for the international symposium Edouard Manet Reexamined (Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum) and individually organized and chaired as event convener one lecture Trajectory of/ Perspective from the Exhibition Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe and one workshop Philosophy of Catastrophe 3: Diffusion of Nuclear Images;
• I was responsible for communication with invited speakers/participants, domestic and international travel and accommodation arrangement, venue bookings and facility arrangements, financial administration, event promotion and advertisement, and financial record keeping.

Event Organization for General Audiences: 

2018   The Shape of the War - In Memory of the Silent Histories   

Artist Talk with photo journalist Kazuma Obara with an introduction by Marga Rotteveel (director of the Docking Station), University of Amsterdam, November 12, 2018.

• Event planning and organization with a World Press Photo award winning Japanese photo journalist on his project on the Dutch WWII prisoners of war under Japanese occupation in Indonesia and their descendants living in the Netherlands.
• It involved event planning and organization, including communication with the artist and external sectors, advertisement, designing posters and sending invitations, delivering opening remarks and charing the discussion.

2016    Invisible Voices from the Past to the Present. Fukushima, Osaka, and Chernobyl in the photography of Kazuma Obara,

Artist Talk with Kazuma Obara, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, April 20, 2016.

• Event conception, advertisement, and session moderation; Event co-organization with Dr. Cissie Fu (Leiden University)

2011  Workshop Philosophy of Catastrophe 3: Diffusion of Nuclear Images

Yasunaga, Marie (event organizer and chair); Tsuchiyama, Yoko (guest speaker); Nakao, Maika (discussant). Denpa suru kaku no imēji (Philosophy of Catastrophe 3: Diffusion of Nuclear Images), University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, May 23, 2011.

• Event conception and organization, advertisement, charing the discussion;

2010  Lecture Limits of Polyphonic Representations: Trajectory of/ Perspective from the Exhibition Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe

Lecture with Kenji Yoshida as guest speaker,  UTCP Lecture: Taseiteki hyōshō no rinkai: Ajia to Yōroppa no shōzō ten no kiseki to tenbou, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, February 24, 2010.

• Event conception and organization, drafting and sending invitation and communication with the guest speaker, charing the session.

Event Organization as founding director of Culturele Stichting Felis Catus

I founded the Cultural Foundation Felis Catus in 2017 to promote activities in arts and performances by talents with different cultural backgrounds.

2017 Okabe Family Tour in Japan: Disoriental 

Tour of a musical band Okabe Family held in 10 venues throughout Japan from Kyoto, Tokyo, to Ibaraki from October 12 - 22, 2017. 

• This involved venue booking and negotiations;
• administrative management, including working visa applications for the artists, accommodation, and travel arrangements;
• event advertisement through traditional mediums such as radio broadcasts as well as on social media platforms;

Award:

• 2014 Society for the Study of Japonism Incentive Award for Emerging Scholars (for the article "Between the Tradition and Modernization: Karl With's experience in Japan and his book Buddhistische Plastik in Japan”)

Grants & Fellowships:

• 2022 Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the Rijksmuseum
• 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2012 Residential Predoctoral Fellowship at the Getty Research Institute, The Getty Foundation
• 2012 Predoctoral Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2011 University of Tokyo Global Studies Program Fellowship
• 2011 Art History Research Grant, The Kajima Foundation for the Arts
• 2010 Getty Research Institute Library Research Grant, The Getty Foundation
• 2009 University of Tokyo Doctoral Fellowship

Dutch Pre-BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs), University of Amsterdam)

Nationality: Japan

Visa status: EU langdurig ingezetene (Arbeid vrij toegestaan)