Anna Zschauer
Research Focus
- ‘Japanese aesthetics’ as a category of external and self-perception
- Intercultural aesthetics as intercultural hermeneutics
- The aesthetic discourse within the European tradition
- Genealogical deconstruction of ‘scientific subjects’ specific to disciplines in cultural sciences
Vita
Academic Education
| Since 04/2016 | Doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, Faculty for cultural sciences and aesthetic communication | |
| 11/2016 - 10/2017 | Research year at Tokyo University, Department of Aesthetics (receiving a Japan Foundation scholarship) | |
| 05/2015 -03/2016 | Scholarship received from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ at Heidelberg University, completion of project work | |
| 2009 – 2015 | State examination (equal M.A.) “with honors”, German studies and History, Heidelberg University (scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation) | |
| 10/2011 - 08/2012 | Abroad study at Kyoto University, participation in the ‚Kyoto University International Education Program (KUINEP)‘ (receiving a JASSO-scholarship) |
Professional Experience
| Since 04/2016 | Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Department of Music | |
| 01/2013 – 05/2015 | Research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ at Heidelberg University, Project MC7: “Discursive Practices of Political Legitimation in Early Modern Asia and Europe” |