Leiden Chinese Queer Collection

The award is presented annually in late May or early June. The award goes to one or several Bachelor or Master students, for a project that engages with LCQC in inspiring ways and furthers the collection’s aim of advancing gender and sexual equality and diversity through education, research, and outreach.

A project can take many forms. It can be a term paper or a graduation thesis; or a personal essay or podcast; or creative expression such as photography/film, poetry, or other art that clearly relates to LCQC, in traditional or new media; and so on. The project’s language can be Dutch or English. Students are welcome to submit individual projects or joint projects with up to three participants. They need to be enrolled at Leiden University at the time of submission.

The award event will celebrate academic and/or artistic achievement of not just the awardees but all participants. Most of all, it wants to stimulate meaningful engagement with the collection and community-building around it. These considerations will inform the assessment of individual and group submissions.

Submissions will be assessed by a committee whose members include the Chair of the BA program in Chinese studies and the student member on the Chinese studies program board, the Chair of the MA in Asian studies (committee chair), and a member of the LCQC steering group. The steering group will work with Leiden University Libraries to consider how projects can be made part of LCQC in their turn.

For queries on the award, please contact Professor Ying Zhang. If you plan to participate, please contact the Chair of Chinese studies by 15 April to signal your intention of submitting a project and submit by 1 May at the latest, adding a personal statement of up to 150 words on how your work relates to LCQC. Date and venue of the award ceremony will be announced in due course.

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