Teach in DOSHISHA VISITING FELLOW APPLICATION PROCESS

Applicants should consult closely with their AKP Campus Representative or with the AKP office. The application deadline is Friday, 12 June 2015.

Send completed application packets for the The applicant must submit the following: 2016–2017 academic year by 12 June 2015 to: 1. A letter of application indicating preferred Doshisha Visiting Fellowship time period for course: at Doshisha University Associated Kyoto Program • First semester: April to August 2016 , Academic West 308 1 Dent Drive • Second semester: September 2016 to Lewisburg, PA 17837 February 2017.

• Intensive term: Designate a 6-8 week For more information please contact: period you are available.

Professor Erik R. Lofgren, Chair 2. A detailed, current curriculum vitae including -or- courses taught. Kate Bewley, Program Administrator 3. A detailed syllabus for the proposed course Associated Kyoto Program (1 meeting per week for 15 weeks). Bucknell University, Academic West 308 Lewisburg, PA 17837 4. An evaluation of the applicant’s teaching performance from the department chair. Phone: 800–940–7070 570–577–1759 5. A letter indicating institutional support from the appropriate administrative officer, such as Fax: 570–577–2017 the Dean of Faculty.

Email: [email protected] 6. A letter of support from the AKP Campus Representative.

http://www.associatedkyotoprogram.org 7. A list indicating the names, ages, and 2016 relationships of family members who would accompany the fellow to Kyoto. ASSOCIATED KYOTO PROGRAM The AKP U.S. Office will forward all applications Visiting Fellowship to the Doshisha to the Doshisha Office of International Affairs and the Graduate School of Law (法学研究科) where Graduate School of Law (法学研究科) Calligraphy by Fujii Yoshiyasu the final selection will be made. DOSHISHA VISITING FELLOW AT THE GRADUATE DOSHISHA UNIVERSITy SCHOOL OF LAW Doshisha University is a prestigious private The Associated Kyoto Program (AKP) is pleased to university of over 26,000 students located in Kyoto, announce a special opportunity to teach in Japan the traditional capital of Japan and still one of the in 2016–17. AKP will support a professor to offer a country’s most attractive cities. Adjacent to the old course in the field of Law at Doshisha University in Imperial Palace and graced with shade trees and Kyoto. The visiting fellow will be expected to teach vintage buildings, the Doshisha campus is one of AbOUT THE ASSOCIATED KyOTO PROGRAM in English in their specialty, to meet with and offer the most beautiful in Japan. The University was AKP is a study-in-Japan program primarily for advice to students as appropriate, and to participate established in 1875 by Joseph Hardy Neesima undergraduates from the following sponsoring in activities connected with the Doshisha Graduate (1843-1890), a Christian educator who graduated American institutions: Amherst, Bates, Bucknell, School of Law. from in 1870 and Andover Carleton, Colby, Connecticut, Middlebury, Mount Theological Seminary in 1874. Holyoke, Oberlin, Pomona, Smith, Wesleyan, ELIGIbILITy Williams, and Whitman. As part of its continuing relationship with Doshisha University, AKP Applicants should be regular faculty members sponsors a professor from a consortium institution at an AKP member institution with a strong to teach and conduct research at Doshisha background in teaching and research in the area of University. Law. Specialists in all disciplines are encouraged to apply, as long as the proposed course is one 2015–2016 AKP CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVES that could be considered part of a Law program. Amherst College Tim Van Compernolle All teaching and related duties are conducted in English, and fluency in Japanese language is not Hisaaki Wake required. Bucknell University Erik R. Lofgren

HOUSING AND COMPENSATION Kathryn Sparling Doshisha University and AKP will provide Hideko Abe each fellow with free housing. Utilities, health Hisae Kobayashi insurance, and personal incidental expenses will Middlebury College Carole Cavanaugh be the responsibility of the fellow. AKP will provide TEACHING IN KyOTO compensation of $1,800 per week for the length of Naoko Nemoto Kyoto, which celebrated its 1200th anniversary in the fellow's stay up to a maximum of $30,000 paid in Suzanne Gay US dollars to the fellow's home institution. Fellows 1994, provides an ideal location for the serious must cover their own round-trip travel expenses. study of both traditional and contemporary Japanese Peter Flueckiger society and culture. A vital, modern city of more No dependent allowances will be paid. Maki Hubbard than one million inhabitants, Kyoto was the capital TERM of Japan from 794 to 1868. Amidst its modern stores, Miri Nakamura industries, and government buildings, the city retains Akira R. Takemoto The first semester begins April 1 and ends in countless vestiges of its cultural history, ranging from early August; the second semester begins in the old Imperial Palace to Buddhist temples, Shinto Kasumi Yamamoto September and ends in February. Full courses last shrines, Nijo Castle, aristocratic gardens, and the approximately 15 weeks. Weekly sessions are headquarters of traditional artistic pursuits such as 90 minutes long. It may be possible to teach an tea ceremony and flower arrangement. accelerated course over a shorter period of time.