[Bilimsel Haber] Herman van Renselaar Prize for Turkish social history

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Herman van Renselaar Prize for Turkish social history

Herman van Renselaar was for fifteen years the attaché for social affairs at
the Dutch embassy in Ankara. During those years he played a key role in the
building of the Turkish collection of the International Institute of Social
History. In recognition of his services, starting in 2009 a yearly prize
named after him will be available for the best MA thesis written in the
previous calendar year on the basis of the Turkish language materials
available at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. The
prize will be offered jointly by the Turkish Studies department of Leiden
University and the IISH. 

The prize will consist of a cash payment of 500 Euros. 

Those who want to take part in the competition will need to submit their
thesis by the 1st of March 2009 in three hard copies. A jury consisting of
senior members of the Turkish Studies dept and the research department of
the IISH will award the prize by the 1st of June 2009. 

For information on the unique Turkish collection of the IISH (22.000
published titles, over a thousand periodicals, several hundred meters of
archives on modern Turkish history), see the collections of the Turkey
Department </collections/turkey/index-tu.php> . 

For information on the opportunities to study in the English-language MA- or
MPhil programmes in Leiden, see: MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies
<http://www.mastersinleiden.nl/programmes/mphil_middle_eastern.jsp> . 

Prof. Dr. E.J. Zürcher 
General director of the IISH, 
Chair of Turkish studies in Leiden University