The Isaac Alfred Ailion Fellowship will support scholars to work with the extensive Special Collections of Leiden University in the field of Japanese culture and language for a period of maximum three months.
The program will support scholars to work with the extensive Special Collections of Leiden University in the field of Japanese culture and language for a period of maximum three months. The allowance is € 3.000 a month for a senoir fellow and € 2.000 a month for a junior fellow. They will be invited to share their research through public lectures and publications.
Fellowship applications will be reviewed by a special board consisting of: prof. dr. Ivo Smits (Professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan at Leiden University and member of the board of the Issac Alfred Ailion FoundationFoundation), Nadia Kreeft MA (Subject Librarian Japanse and Korean at LeidenUniversity Libraries) and Kasper van Ommen MA (Coordinator Scaliger Institute).
Applications for an Isaac Alfred Ailion fellowship have to comply with a number of conditions:
• All Fellowships are to be started and completed during the the year 2020, except when a special agreement is made.
• Two letters of recommendation from the academic referees named in the application form. Applicants should ask the referees to comment on their professional knowledge of the applicant and the contribution the proposed research would make to scholarship. The referees should be asked to send their letters directly to the Coordinator of the Fellowship Programme, by email to scaliger@library.leidenuniv.nl or by post to the following address: K. van Ommen, Scaliger Institute, P.O. Box 9501, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands;
The Isaac Alfred Ailion fellow is expected to contribute to the activities of the Scaliger Institute, and to give a public lecture in the series of Asian Library at Leiden University Libraries.
Kasper van Ommen Curator & Coordinator Scaliger Institute
+31 71 527 2905 k.van.ommen@library.leidenuniv.nl