Scholarships for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students at Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Turkey 2011

Traveling Scholarship for BA, MA and PhD students Ancient History, Classics, Archaeology, Assyriology at Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Turkey -2011
Study Subject(s):Ancient History, Classics, Archaeology, Assyriology and related fields
Course Level:Undergraduate, Postgraduate, PhD
Scholarship Provider: NIT
Scholarship can be taken at: Turkey
Eligibility:
MA and PhD students that attend the full course can receive a certificate stating their participation. Participants will be expected to do a modest amount of preparatory readings. There are also a limited number of slots for students/scholars who want to audit specific parts of the course.
Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes
Scholarship Description: The Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) was the first real world empire and comprised a staggering multitude of nations and cultures. Scholars working on this unprecedented historical phenomenon have given most weight to the Greco-Roman sources, which, naturally, tend to focus mostly on Greek affairs and on the Greco-Persian wars (490-479). Since the early 1980s a new perspective has been growing, seeking to deconstruct the necessarily limited scope of the classical sources, describing long-term processes and underlying structures, and giving due attention to primary sources from within the empire, despite the inherent limitations that these sources also have.
How to Apply: Online, by Post
Scholarship Application Deadline: September 12, 2011
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