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Anna Andreeva, Ph.D. (Cantab.)
Academic Staff
Position
- Research Fellow
Contact information
Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg "
Germany
About Anna Andreeva
Anna Andreeva has earned her doctorate at University of Cambridge in 2006. She spent a year at Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, before returning to Cambridge to take up a position of Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religions at Girton College in 2007. She joined the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe" in April 2010. During 2012-2013, she was a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, before coming back to Heidelberg.
Anna's research focuses on religious and cultural history of premodern Japan, particularly, the relationship between the systems of knowledge and beliefs related to Esoteric Buddhism and their impact on the fields of the religious and cultural production (for example, the worship of Japanese deities, kami).
She also works on Buddhism and the cultural history of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing in premodern Japan, and the cross-cultural development and transmission of medical knowledge, particularly that related to female body and gender, in Asia and Europe.
Projects
Curriculum vitae
Research interests
Cultural and religious history of Japan and East Asia, Buddhism, sacred sites, pilgrimage, ritual, economies of the sacred
Buddhism and medicine, history of science and medicine, gender, childbirth and women's health
Cultural mobility, history of Buddhist concepts, conceptual metaphor
Professional experience
2013–2016 Research Fellow, project leader "Economies of the Sacred: Negotiating Transculturality in Medieval and Early Modern Japan," Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe," University of Heidelberg
2012–2013 Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto
2010–2012 Research Fellow, Coordinator of project C11 "Religion and Medicine in Pre-Modern East Asia", Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", University of Heidelberg
www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/c-knowledge-systems/c11.html
2007–2010 Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religions, Girton College, University of Cambridge
2006–2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard
Additional academic posts
2014–2017 Extended Council member, European Association of Japanese Studies
2014 Second Convener, Section on Religion and History of Ideas. European Association of Japanese Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2011 Main Convener, Section on Religion and History of Ideas. European Association of Japanese Studies, Tallinn, Estonia.
2007–present Research Associate, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard
International symposia and conference organization
2014 Translation workshop, “Ryukyu Shintoki, ca. 1603–1607.” With Chiara Ghidini, University of Naples
2014 “Economies of the sacred: dreams, oracles, and sacred sites in Asia and Europe,” Heidelberg. Guest speakers from Hamburg, Göttingen, Kyoto, Rome, Heidelberg.
2014 “Transcultural Talismans and the Economies of the Sacred,” Heidelberg. Guest speakers from Heidelberg, University of Virginia.
2013 “Putative Purities: religions, master narratives and transculturality,” co-organiser, Heidelberg
2011a “Kami cults and notions of transculturality in ancient Japan,” Heidelberg. Guest speakers from Columbia and Oslo Universities, and Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2011b “Childbirth and women’s health in pre-modern societies,” Heidelberg.With Erica Couto and Susanne Töpfer.
2010 “Imagining the feminine in medicine and religion in pre-modern East Asia,” Cluster “Asia and Europe,” Heidelberg. With Dominic Steavu.
www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/c-knowledge-systems/c11/imagining-the-feminine.html
Panel chairing
2015 Panel organizer and chair, “The Bodies of Women, the Letters of Men: Explaining Reproduction in Ancient Mesopotamia, Medieval England, and Medieval Japan,” annual conference, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe,” University of Heidelberg
2012 Panel organizer and chair, “Cultural mobility and religious practice in pre-modern Japan,” British Association of Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, UK.
2011a Discussant at a research conference on Shinto Ritual Archaeology, Centre Européen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace, France.
2011b Discussant and chair, “Healing throughout the six realms: transformative rituals in Japanese Buddhism.” European Association of Japanese Studies, Tallinn, Estonia.
Summer schools and PhD workshops
2014 International workshop, “Reading Premodern Japanese Texts: Fujiwara no Michinaga's (966–1027) Midō Kanpakuki,” Heian court diaries, Heidelberg. With Professor Kuramoto Kazuhiro (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto)
2013 Advisor at a PhD dissertation workshop, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
2012 Ten-day international summer school, “Reading Premodern Japanese Texts,” with David Mervart, Heidelberg. Sponsored by the Japan Foundation and Toshiba International Foundation.
Exhibitions
2014 “Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe. Von Atlantis bis heute.” With Gerrit Jasper Schenk and Monica Juneja, et al. Reiss-Engelhorn Museen. Mannheim.
Selected publications
Monograph:
Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan. Under contract with Harvard Asia Center.
Edited volume:
Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions. With Dominic Steavu. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
www.brill.com/products/book/transforming-void
Special journal issue:
Childbirth and Women’s Healthcare Across Cultures. With Erica Couto-Ferreira and Susanne Töpfer. Sp. issue, Dynamis 34/2 (2014). Introduction, “Childbirth and Women’s Healthcare in Pre-modern Societies: an Assessment” http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/issue/view/21162/showToc
http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/issue/view/21162/showToc
Book chapters:
2015a “Lost in the Womb: Conception, Reproductive Imagery, and Gender in the Writings and Rituals of Japan’s Medieval Holy Men.” In Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions, edited by Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu, 420–78. Leiden: Brill.
2015b “Chūsei Nihon ni okeru osan to josei no kenkō––Sansei Ruijūshō no bukkyōteki, igakuteki chisiki wo chūshin to shite 中世日本における御産と女性の健康――『産生類聚抄』の仏教的・医学的知識を中心として― (Childbirth and Women’s Health in Medieval Japan––Focusing on the Buddhist and Medical Knowledge in the “Encyclopaedia of Childbirth” (ca. 1318)).” In Hikaku shisō kara mita Nihon bukkyō 比較思想から見た日本仏教 (Japanese Buddhism as Seen in Comparative Thought), edited by Sueki Fumihiko 末木文彦, 13–36. Tokyo: Sankibō Busshōrinkan.
2014a “The earthquake insect: conceptualising disasters in pre-modern Japan”. In Imaging Disaster, edited by Monica Juneja and Gerrit Jasper Schenk, 81–89. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner.
2014b “Childbirth in aristocratic households in Heian Japan.” Sp. issue, Childbirth and Women’s Healthcare Across Cultures, edited by Anna Andreeva, Erica Coutu, and Susanne Töpfer. Dynamis 34/2: 357–76.
www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/280700/368382
2011a “Miwa-ryū no seiritsu” 三輪流の成立 (The Formation of the Miwa Lineage). In Chūsei Shinwa, Chūsei Jingi, Shintō no Sekai 中世神話・中世神祇、神道の世界 (Medieval Myths and Kami Worship), edited by Itō Satoshi 伊藤聡, 221–39. Tokyo: Chikurinsha.
2011b “The deity of Miwa and Tendai esoteric thought.” In Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia, edited by Charles Orzech, Hendrik Sørensen, Richard Payne, 854–62. Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 4, China 24. Brill: Leiden.
Articles:
2011 “The Karmic Origins of the Morning-Bear Mountain”: preliminary research notes on Asamayama engi”. Special issue for Mr. Toshihide Numata. Pacific World 3/12: 171–90, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley.
2010a “Medieval Shinto: new discoveries and perspectives”, in Religion Compass, Volume 4, Issue 11, 679–93. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Permanent link:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2010.00243.x/abstract
2010b “The Origins of the Great Miwa Deity: The transformation of a sacred mountain in pre-modern Japan”, Monumenta Nipponica 65/2: 245–95
2010c “The origins of the Miwa lineage.” Special issue, “Re-thinking Medieval Shintō: In homage to Allan Grapard”, edited by Bernard Faure, Michael Como, and Nobumi Iyanaga, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 16 (2006–2007): 71–90.
2009 “Miwa-ryū kankei shiryō ni mirareru mondaiten: Chūsei Shintō no tekusuto, hisetsu, girei wo chūshin ni” (Problems in the study of religious texts attributed to the Miwa Lineage: texts, secret theories and rituals of Medieval Shinto). In The Global Stature of Japanese Religious Texts, edited by Abe Yasurō 阿部泰郎, 256–64. Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters, 2008–2009.
2006 “Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33/2: 349–77, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/751.pdf
