3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
Research Interests: Intellectual and Cultural History
Research Topic: The Creation of Man: Collective Biography in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
After studying Japanese and Chinese history at Leiden University, Niels became fascinated with the frameworks of morality that govern early modern Asian life. In particular, he is interested in "moral culture", a term that he uses to describe the pathways, processes and media through which morality and material culture mutually influence one another. Convinced that any morality is grounded, first of all, in people's perception of what it means to be human, his current research applies digital humanity techniques to biographical sources to uncover the longue duree development of the mentalities and discourses concerning the concept of "Man", from the beginning of the Tokugawa period, up to the end of the Meiji period. In doing so, he aims not only to understand the formative processes of discrimination, but also the role of literary form in shaping ideas.