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TAKENAKA Yumi

Department / Course Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Kinugasa Research Organization Art Research Center
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of International Language and Culture Studies
3.	Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization Asia-Japan Research Institute

Academic background
1.	1996/04/01～2000/03/31	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Science of Arts │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Osaka University │ Completed
2.	1983/04/01～1987/03/31	Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science │ Kobe Pharmaceutical University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2017/04/01	Professor │ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2012/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	Associated Professor │ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2007/04/01 ～ 2009/08/31	Restart Postdoctral Fellowship (RPD) │ │ JSPS

Committee and society
1.	2019/10 ～	The Japanese Society for Aesthetics Western Division Committee / The Journal, Bigaku, Editorial Committee
2.	2018/04 ～	Society for Arts and Anthropology Auditor
3.	2020/04 ～	Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University Steering Committee Member
4.	2022/04 ～	Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University Steering Committee Member
5.	2019/04 ～	Research-Life Support Division for Promotion of Gender Equality, Ritsumeikan University Steering Committee Member
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Research activities
1.		The Japanese Society for Aesthetics
2.		Society for Ethno-Arts
3.		International Association for Aesthetics
4.		The Asian Society of Arts

Subject of research
1.	Aesthetics and ethics in the display of photographic records
2.	Reconstruction of the history of Japanese photography as 20th-century art
3.	Aesthetics and art theories in English
4.	Historical study of transnational visual culture in East Asia

Research summary(Photo/Image)

Present specialized field
Aesthetics and art studies-related, History of arts-related (Keyword：Science of Arts, Aesthetics, Art history, Contemporary art theories, Theories of photography, Visual cultural studies, Exhibition studies)

Books
1.	2020/03	An Anthropology of Landscape: On Representation of Nature, Cities, and Memories
2.	2001/05	A History of Japanese and Western Design: exchange and influence │ ,pp.8-16

Papers
1.	2025/03	The Affinity between Photography and the Garden: On Siân Davey's Garden Project │ Journal of the Society for Arts and Anthropology │ vol. 41,pp.154-157
2.	2022/12/29	Shadows of the Atomic Bombings in The Family of Man: The American photographic exhibition tour of Japan in the post-occupation period │ Marco Bohr ed., Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present │ ,pp.158-178
3.	2022/06/10	Politics and Aesthetics: The Archives of FSA Photography Project │ Bulletin of The Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography │ 31 (1),pp.26-32
4.	2022/03/01	Topology of Displaying Artworks in Japanese Artworld │ Occasional Opinions on Visual Facts, Suda Memorial │ ,pp.23-25
5.	2020/09/01	The Family of Man in Japan: A Photographic Exhibition for World Peace and Atomic Culture in the 1950s │ Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture │ Vol. 1/2020,pp.44-55
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/05/08	Domestic Space as an Ukiyo: An Essay on the Composition of Katsukawa Shunshō's "Scenes of Women's Lives in the Twelve Months"
2.	2024/02/24	Visual Culture Studies in the Domestic Sphere Utilizing ARC Database
3.	2024/02/22	Seven Poems in The Moulin: Taiwan and a Surrealist named Shuzo Takiguchi
4.	2023/11/16	Keynote, Windows in Pictures: On the Framings of Space and Decorativeness
5.	2023/08/04	Visual Culture Studies in the Domestic Sphere Utilizing ARC Database
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Other research achievements
1.	2024/06/01 ～ 2024/08/31	Visiting Scholar in the Nottingham School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University
2.	2023/01/31 ～ 2023/01/31	Organizing "Graduate Student Colloquium Arts and Culture Studies of East Asia in the Post-Media Era -Themes and Perspectives-" (Kinugasa Campus Ritsumeikan University + Zoom)
3.	2022/03/06 ～ 2022/03/06	Gallery Talk at On line Exhibition "Encounterting Asia: Traveling, Imagination, and Creation of Arts"
4.	2022/03/01 ～ 2022/03/31	On line Exhibition "Encounterting Asia: Traveling, Imagination, and Creation of Arts"

Works
1.	2024/07/17	Collective Images in Social Changes from Photography in 20th Century to Ukiyo-e in 18th Century

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2024/04/01 ～ 2027/03/31	A Genealogy of photographic historiography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C) (Keyword：History of Photography, History of Exhibitions, Exhibition Catalog Studies, Narratology, Autoethnography)
2.	2007/04/01 ～ 2009/08/31	Journalism and Art Theories of American Contemporary Art │ Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Keyword：Art history, Media theory, Sculpture, Photography, Arts management)

researchmap Researcher code
7000006099