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BROOKINGS
INSTITUTION & SABANCI UNIVERSITY:
ANNOUNCE RESEARCH AWARDS - HOLBROOKE KEYNOTES 28/5/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
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May 2007 –
The Brookings
Institution and Sabanci University recently announced the winners of this year's
Sakip Sabanci International Research Award: This year's first place winner is
Dr. Christine Philliou for her essay titled "The Paradox of Perceptions:
Interpreting the Ottoman Past Through the National Present." Dr.
Philliou is an assistant professor at Columbia University.
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The
annual award is named in honor of the late Mr. Sakip Sabanci, a prominent
Turkish philanthropist and business leader. It is designed to promote fresh
thinking, new ideas, and original research relevant to Turkish studies
conducted in any field of the humanities and social sciences.
To establish a prominent forum for exploring Turkey's increasingly important
role in the world, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe and
Sabanci University launched a lecture series in honor of Sakip Sabanci.
Mr.
Sabanci was one of the foremost Turkish business leaders of his generation,
a visionary supporter of Turkey's democratic and economic reforms, and a
strong advocate of Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.
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The
annual award is named in honor of the late Mr. Sakip Sabanci, a prominent
Turkish philanthropist and business leader. It is designed to promote fresh
thinking, new ideas, and original research relevant to Turkish studies conducted
in any field of the humanities and social sciences.
To establish a prominent forum for exploring Turkey's increasingly important
role in the world, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe and
Sabanci University launched a lecture series in honor of Sakip Sabanci.
Mr.
Sabanci was one of the foremost Turkish business leaders of his generation, a
visionary supporter of Turkey's democratic and economic reforms, and a strong
advocate of Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.
"The Ottoman legacy has tremendous relevance for all the current issues
facing these regions," said Omer Taspinar, a Turkey expert and nonresident
senior fellow at Brookings.
"For
some, this legacy is part of the challenge. For others it is part of solution.
This year's Sabanci Award greatly contributes to this crucial, yet much
neglected, debate," he said.
According to Daniel Benjamin, director of the Center on the United States and
Europe, "everywhere we look -from the Balkans to Iraq-the Ottoman heritage
is just beneath the surface. The research award is helping cast a light on this
vital past, which provides so much of the essential prologue to many of today's
key issues."
Richard C. Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and vice
chairman of Perseus LLC, delivered the third annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture,
"Turkey and America: Indispensable Allies at a Crossroads."
Previously,
Ambassador Holbrooke was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement
that ended the war in Bosnia.
During the ceremony, Ambassador Holbrooke joined Ms. Guler Sabanci, chairperson
of the Sabanci Group and niece of Sakip Sabanci, in presenting the winners of
the third Sakip Sabanci international research award for the best essays on the
Ottoman legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East.
The 2007 award winners are:
1st Place: "The
Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past Through the National
Present" Christine Philliou, Columbia University, New York
2nd Place: "Fighting
the Specters of the Past: Dilemmas of Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans and the
Middle East"
Suhnaz Yilmaz, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey and Ipek K. Yosmaoglu,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
3rd Place: "De/Constructing
a 'Legacy in Stone': Of interpretative and historiographical problems concerning
the Ottoman cultural heritage in the Balkans"
Maximilian Hartmuth, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Honorable Mentions:
Edin Hajdarpasic, University of Michigan
Charles Sabatos, Oberlin College
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