Manuscript Cultures
Juliane Noth Accepts Professorship at FU Berlin
20 October 2021
Photo: Universität Heidelberg
The art historian and sinologist will take up the professorship in East Asian art history this winter semester. At the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts', she investigated popular calligraphy practices in socialist China.
For Noth, the move to Berlin is a return to a familiar place: in 2006, she completed her doctorate in East Asian Art History at the FU, and from 2008 to 2012 she was a research assistant at the Institute of Art History there. From 2012 to 2018, she headed the project ‘In Search of the Chinese Landscape: Ink Painting, Travel, and Transmedial Practice, 1928–1936’, also at the FU.
During these years, she also acted, among other things, as a substitute professor in Chinese Art History at Universität Heidelberg (2010-2011) and as Visiting Fellow at the China Institute for Visual Studies, China Academy of Art, in Hangzhou (2018-2019).
At the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts' Noth has been active since April 2021. There she has been leading the project ‘Bronze, Stone and Newspaper: The Materiality and Mediality of Writing in Socialist China’. By the time she joined the Cluster, she had already been a Heisenberg Fellow at the Department of Art History at the Universität Hamburg since 2019, leading the project ‘Artistic Practice during the Cultural Revolution: Actors, Media, Institutions’.
She will take up her professorship in East Asian Art History at the FU this winter semester.