Hanne Deleu
Hanne DeleuSpecialization: Gender and Biopolitics in Modern Japan; Motherhood, Childcare, Infant Nutrition, and Wartime Charity
Email:hannedeleu@ucsb.edu
Personal Website: https://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/students/
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.
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. 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.
Academic History:
M.A., Transcultural Studies – Heidelberg University, Germany (2018–2020)
M.A., Japanese Studies – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (2017–2018)
B.A., Japanese Studies – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (2013–2017)
Academic Awards and Activities:
2023 Internship at Kyushu University’s Journal of Asian Humanities (JAH-Q)
2021 Heidelberg University Research Assistant Project “The Tokyo Imperial University Settlement House: Challenging Social Inequality in Interwar Japan”
2021 Public Lecture at Heidelberg University (Institute of Japanese Studies) on the topic
“When Breast is Bested: Public Discourse on Breastfeeding in Japan between 1900 and 1940”
2021 Granted JSPS Summer Program scholarship
2019–2020 Granted DAAD International Study and Training Partnerships scholarship (Yale University, student exchange)
2019 Presenter at the Deutsche Soldaten in japanischer Kriegsgefangenschaft (1914–
1920): Neue Quellen und Perspektiven Conference
2018 Presenter at the 11th Kansai University EU Workshop
2018 Internship production “Japan and the Great War” exhibition at the In Flanders Fields Museum
2016–2017 Granted JASSO Scholarship (Kyushu University, student exchange)
2015–2018 Peer Assistant Learning Coach/Tutor (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
2015 Participant Nara Women’s University Mahoroba Summer Program