Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners (1st round)
With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fellows and guests per year to consult and research materials from our Special Collections. The Scaliger Institute received applications this year from domestic and international scholars.
And the winners are:
Brill Fellowship
Irna Kozmanova (Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts, Department of Germanic Studies Assistant professor, Head of the Dutch Section):
Studeren in het buitenland wanneer het land van herkomst of gastland verdwijnt. De uitvoering van de culturele overeenkomst tussen Tsjechoslowakije en Nederland aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 1938–1940.
Lukáš Felbr (Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts, Department of Germanic Studies):
Studeren in het buitenland wanneer het land van herkomst of gastland verdwijnt. De uitvoering van de culturele overeenkomst tussen Tsjechoslowakije en Nederland aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 1938–1940
Kelvin Ng (Department of History, Yale University USA):
Vernacular Equality: Migration and Resistance in the Indian Ocean, c. 1920-1940
Van de Sande Fellowship
Erik-Jan Bos (Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus Universiteit):
An unknown manuscript of Descartes’ Traité de l’homme.
Isaac Alfred Ailion Fellowship
Arlette Kouwenhoven (Independent scholar):
A New Biography of Philipp Franz von Siebold.
Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship
Ilham Nurwansah (Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM), Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, Indonesia):
Renewing the Catalogue of Sundanese Manuscripts: Leiden University Library Collection.
Mohammad Refi Omar Ar Razy (Padjadjaran University, Sumedang, Indonesia):
Tracing back of Hosein Djajadiningrat’s Ideas and his Intellectual Interaction in the Colonial Period.
Muhammad Haidar Izzuddin (alumnus Universitas Indonesia):
Catalogue of Ulu manuscripts in the Special Collection of Leiden University: A Further Contribution to Uluan Manuscript Research.
Scaliger Institute
Founded by UBL and the Faculties of Arts, Theology and Philosophy (now the Faculty of Humanities) on the 425th anniversary of Leiden University in June 2000, the Scaliger Institute aims to stimulate and facilitate the use of the Special Collections of UBL in both teaching and research. The Scaliger Institute hosts several fellowship programmes for visiting scholars, some with a broad scope, like the Brill Fellowship, and others in specific fields of research, like the Isaac Alfred Ailion Fellowship and the Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship. Elsevier also offers a Fellowship for Digital Scholarship, specifically aimed at research in the extensive Leiden Digital Collections.
We thank all the sponsors of the fellowships in this 1st round: Brill Publishers, Van de Sande Foundation the Lingling Wiyadharma Fund and the Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation.
We have opened the second round of applications (deadline: 1 September 2023) for the:
- Drewes Fellowship
- Juynboll Fellowship
- Arminius Fellowship
- Wouter Swets Fellowship (Musical traditions from the Balkans, Turkey, and Central Asia)