I am interested in how museums have been used to divide or integrate human groups and senses of belonging, as well as how museums, which can change in accordance with the governance systems of those in power, have functioned as a way to define, collect, and exhibited one’s own culture and the culture of others. My research focuses primarily on examples from Middle Eastern Islamic countries. In my doctoral dissertation, “Museum for Whom? The Evolution of the Museum and ‘Iranian Art’ in Iran,” I focused on Naser al-Din Shah’s Museum in Golestan Palace (established in 1876), the National Museum of Iran (established in 1937), which now consists of the Iran Bastan Museum and the Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran, and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (established in 1977). I provided an overview of cultural policies and the history of museum establishment from the late 19th century to the present and discussed the role of museums in Iran as a stage for cultural diplomacy. Currently, I am conducting a research project titled “Museum of Science and Technology and the Paradox of Peace,” which focuses on how religion and science and technology are displayed in contemporary Iranian museums and beyond.
2022–present, Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
2022 Ph.D. in Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2020–present, Part-Time Lecturer, Global Liberal Arts Program (GLAP), Rikkyo University
2020–2022 Project Researcher, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
2012–2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research fellow (DC2)
2010 MSc in Middle Eastern Politics, School of Oriental and African Study, University of London
2009 BA in Politics, School of Oriental and African Study, University of London
Book
Yuki Terada, supervised by Masashi Haneda, illustrated by Hiromichi Ito. Panoramic World History 5: The Changing World. Otsuki Shoten. 2015. (Japanese)
Chapter and article
Terada, Yuki, “12-17 Contemporary Art”, “12-18 Contemporary Art Museum”, in Suzuki, T., Kondo, J., Akahori, M. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and Orient Culture. Maruzen Publishing. 2020. (Japanese)．
Terada, Y., Exhibitions of Art in Iran and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Ji Meng and Atsuko Ukai (eds.). Translation, History and Arts: New Horizons in Asian Interdisciplinary Humanities Research. P199. pp89-109. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2013.
Terada, Y., Jackson Pollock: A Centennial Retrospective. Art Tomorrow. No.7 Winter, 2012.
Terada, Y., Review: Arab Express. Art Asia Pacific. Issue 80. Sept/Oct. 2012.
Conference presentation
“Depicting Cultural Encounters in Japanese Puppet TV Shows: A Case Study of Arabian Nights in Pop-up Gourd Island”. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference. Boston (U.S.). 2023.3.17.
“Identities through the lens of puppetry – A report from Iran”. #Metttafestival – Who are we on social media? Exhibition organized by Goethe Institute Tokyo. BUoY, Tokyo (Japan). 2022.10.2.
“Visualizing the ‘World’ in Museums: Case Studies from Iran”. Global History Collaborative Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)．2015.10.5.
“Reconsidering Categories in World History: Towards Overcoming the Self-Other Binary”. Graduate Student Workshop: Symposium on World History and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. Princeton University (U.S.). 2013.12.19.
“Representations of distinct yet overlapping cultures in national museums in Asia”. Workshop on East Asia in World History: Dialectics between the National and the Global. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). 2013.6.21.
“Evolution of the Cultural Spaces- The case of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran”. Todai-Fudai Doctoral Students Forum-New Trends of Humanistic Studies. Fudan University (China). 2013.3.15.
“The Evolution of Cultural Spaces in Iran: The case of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art”. Speaker Series hosted by McGill University’s Indian Ocean World Center. McGill University (Canada). 2013.2.19.
“Museum Construction and Issues of Identity Formation; Focusing on the Cases of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates”. Waseda University Institute for Advanced Study International Seminar: Islamic Art in Eastern Asia. Waseda University (Japan). 2013.1.12.
“Reflections on the Museum in Iran since the 1960s –Behind the History of Visual Culture”. The 2nd International Conference of the Asian Association of World History. Ewha Womans University (Korea). 2012.4.28.
