Research interests: Publications

Dr. des. Nadin Heé
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Section Global History (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad)
Assistant Professor
Koserstr. 20 — room A 361 14195 Berlin
tel.: +49 (30) 838 53528 fax: +49 (30) 838 53902
e-mail: [email protected]
Research interests:
Asian history in the 19th and 20th century (with special emphasis on Japan), colonial history,
history of science, transfer history and global history.
Publications
Edited Works
With Sebastian Conrad and Ulrike Schaper: Ordering the Colonial World around the Turn of
the 20th Century – Global and Comparative Perspectives. Comparativ. Comparativ.
Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Heft 1. 2009.
Articles
Japan’s Double Bind: ‘Civilised’ Punishment in Colonial Taiwan. In: Sebastian Conrad,
Nadin Heé und Ulrike Schaper: Ordering the Colonial World around the Turn of the 20th
Century – Global and Comparative Perspectives. Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte
und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Heft 1. 2009. pp. 71-87.
With Ulrike Schaper: Introduction – Approaching different colonial settings. In: Sebastian
Conrad, Nadin Heé and Ulrike Schaper: Ordering the Colonial World around the Turn of the
20th Century – Global and Comparative Perspectives. Comparativ. Comparativ. Zeitschrift
für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Heft 1. 2009. pp. 7-16.
Marino Lusy, Artist and Japanophile: The Legacy of His Surimono Collection. In: John
Carpenter (ed.) Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints with a
catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection. Leiden 2008. pp. 14-23.
Sozialdarwinistische Ideen und »biologische Politik« in Taiwan: Japans double bind um 1900.
In: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte 2008. Darwin. Berlin, Zurich:
Diaphanes. pp. 87-103.
With Ulrike Schaper: Herrschaftsraum und Raumbeherrschung: Raum in der deutschen und
japanischen Kolonialherrschaft, in: De La Rosa, Sybille u.a. (ed.): Transdisziplinäre
Governanceforschung. Gemeinsam hinter den Staat blicken, Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 37-57.
Von der Inszenierung des Unsichtbaren zur Repräsentation der Nation: Herrscherreisen im
Japan des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Susann Baller, Michael Pesek, Ruth Schilling & Ines Stolpe
(ed.), Die Ankunft des Anderen. Repräsentationen sozialer und politischer Ordnungen in
Empfangszeremonien, Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus 2008. pp. 64-81.
Die japanischen Holzschnittbücher der Grafischen Sammlung im Museum für Gestaltung
Zürich. Librarium (2003) pp. 45-61.
Accompanying Publication to Exhibition
With John Carpenter: Surimono: Die Kunst der Anspielung in japanischen Holzdrucken.
Museum Rietberg Zürich. Zurich 2008.
Translation
Bambusmalanleitung von Kenkensai. In: Brauen, Martin. Bambus im alten Japan. Kunst und
Kultur an der Schwelle zur Moderne. Die Sammlung Hans Spörry im Völkerkundemuseum
der Universität Zürich. Stuttgart 2003. pp. 268f.
Book Reviews
Lowy, Dina. The Japanese New Woman. Images of Gender and Modernity, 1910-1920.
Piscataway, NJ 2007. (http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=11097)
Saaler, Sven; Koschmann, J. Victor (ed.): Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History.
Colonialism, Regionalism, and Borders. London u.a. 2007. (http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=9595)
Hotta, Eri. Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War. 1931-1945. Basingstoke 2007. (http://geschichtetransnational.clioonline.net/rezensionen/id=11722&count=532&recno=32&type=rezbuecher&sort=datum&ord
er=down&segment=16)
Liu, Michael Shiyung, Prescribing Colonization. The Role of Medical Practices and Politicies
in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895-1945. Asia Past & Present. Ann Arbor, MI 2009.
http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/rezensionen/id=14740&type=rezbuecher&sort=datum&order=down&search=nadin
+heé
T’sai, Caroline Hui-yu, Taiwan in Japan’s Empire Building. An instiutional approach to
colonial engineering. Routledge, London 2009.
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-4-087
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2011
Assistant professor at Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, section global history (head of department
Sebastian Conrad)
2010
Teaching fellow at East Asian Institute and University Research scheme Asia and Europe of
Zurich University
2006-2009
Research associate at special research project (SFB) 700 at Free University Berlin
Dissertation: Gewalt, Wissen und Zivilisierung: Japanische Kolonialherrschaft in Taiwan,
1895-1945 (defended October 2010 at Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
2002-2006
Deputy head of the research project “Surimono” at Museum of Design, Zurich under
administration of Museum Rietberg, Zurich.
2005-2006
Grant holder at the German Institute for Japanese Studies with a scholarship from the
Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA).
Visiting research fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences of Tokyo University (Shakai
kagaku kenkyūjo).
1997-2004
Studied social and economic history, Japanese Studies and East Asian art history at Zurich
University and Doshisha University, Kyoto (research fellowhip of the Japanese Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Monbukagakushō) (MA in Japanese
history and aesthetics (Daigakuin), 1999-2001).