Hanne Deleu

My research centers around the biopolitical perception, gendering, instruction, and instrumentalization of reproductive bodies in modern Japan, focusing specifically on the changing social expectations and norms related to breastfeeding and alternative infant feeding methods.

Academic History:

2020    M.A., Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Thesis: When Breast is Bested: Public Discourse on Breastfeeding in Japanese Print Media from 1900 until 1940, Committee: Harald Fuess (Chair), Hans Martin Krämer

2018    M.A., Japanese Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Thesis: Japanese Humanitarian Aid for Belgium During the First World War: Charity as a Tool for International Acknowledgement, Advisor: Jan Schmidt

2017    B.A., Japanese Studies – Catholic University of Leuven

Publications:

2023    Deleu, Hanne. “Sagas of Swords, Scrolls, and Dolls: Japanese Humanitarian Aid to Belgium.” In Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24, edited by Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie, 51–68. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526173256.00010. Hanne Deleu_Sagas of Swords, Scrolls, and Dolls: Japanese Humanitarian Aid to Belgium_2023

2018    Deleu, Hanne. “Een Unieke Schenking.” Ex Officina 31, no. 20 (2018): 14–5. ISSN: 0772-6848.

Presentations:

2021    Heidelberg University, Institute for Japanese Studies, “When Breast is Bested: Public Discourse on Breastfeeding in Japan between 1900 and 1940”

2019    Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, “The Hans Kolster Collection: A Pandora’s Box Full of Frustrations,” Workshop Digitales Tsingtauarchiv

2018    Kansai University, “Japanese Humanitarian Aid for Belgium During the First World War: Various Philanthropic Activities and Motivations,” 11^th KU Workshop

Academic Awards and Grants:

2023–2025    Center for Taiwan Studies, Graduate Research Grant                                   

2024    Koichi Takashima Endowed Chair, Graduate Research Grant

2023    Ogawa Fund/Graduate Division, Graduate Student Grant

2022    Koichi Takashima Endowed Chair, Graduate Research Grant      

2019–2020    DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, International Training  and Study Partnership Scholarship, Yale University, Visiting Student

2016–2017    JASSO – Japanese Student Services Organization Scholarship, Kyushu University, Exchange Student

Research and Teaching Experience:

2023–2024   University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, “East Asian Traditions: Premodern” and “East Asian Traditions: Modern”

2023   Kyushu University, Intern, Journal of Asian Humanities (JAH-Q), Advisor: Ellen van Goethem

2021   Heidelberg University, Research Assistant, Advisor: Hans Martin Krämer, “The Tokyo Imperial University Settlement House: Challenging Social Inequality in Interwar Japan” Project

2020    Heidelberg University, Student Assistant, Advisor Harald Fuess

2019–2020    Yale University, Student Assistant, Japanese Language Materials at Yale University Library

2019    Heidelberg University, Research Assistant, Advisor: Takuma Melber, “Digital Tsingtau-Archive: German Soldiers in Wartime Captivity During World War I” Project

2018    In Flanders Fields Museum, Independent Research Intern, Organized and Presented 6-months exhibition “Japan and the Great War,” Advisor: Dominiek Dendooven

2015–2018    Catholic University of Leuven, Peer Assistant Learning Coach

2015    Nara Women’s University Mahoroba Summer Program