Erasmus Prize 50 years
Amsterdam (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - In 2008 the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation celebrates it 50th anniversary. His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands founded the Prize in 1958. The Prize is awarded annually to a person who, within the cultural traditions of Europe, has made an especially important contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe. The prize money is a sum of EUR 150.000.
The Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (Amsterdam) has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2008 to the Dutch/British journalist, author and political commentator Ian Buruma.
The official award ceremony of the prestigious Erasmus Prize will take place on 7 November in Rotterdam. The theme of the Prize in this jubilee year is 'The New Cosmopolitan'.
Ian Buruma (1951) a new cosmopolitan.
After studying Chinese in Leiden and Japanese film in Tokyo, he became cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review and foreign editor of The Spectator; since 2003 he is Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. He was chairman of the Humanities Centre of the Central European University in Budapest, fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington. He is member of the scientific advisory council of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and member of the board of Human Rights in China in New York. Ian Buruma has written about Japan, China, Asia and their often problematic
relationships with the West. He is one of the leading international essayists on East-West relations. Ian Buruma is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. His book Murder in Amsterdam on the murder of Theo van Gogh was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Current Interest Book. In 2004 Ian Buruma received an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. In 2008 he is holding the Cleveringa-chair at the University of Leiden and will be professorial fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden.
The Erasmus Prize derives its name and inspiration from the Dutch humanist scholar, Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536). Renowned theologian and teacher, Erasmus was a true world citizen; his view of life was universal: knowledge must prevail over ignorance, order over chaos and humaneness is of greater value than any dogma. Erasmus defended the integrity of the intellect and pleaded for moderation and tolerance. Praise of Folly is one of his best known works.
'The New Cosmopolitan' is a citizen of a new world, in which boundaries of all sorts are easily transcended; where people of diverse cultures work together readily and economic and cultural exchange is intrinsic. The new world citizen likes to picture a world without hindrances, but is forced to confront societal realities, where identity is frequently defined by traditional differences such as nationality, culture, religion or ethnic origins. With this thematic the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation raises the issue of the tension that exists between a cosmopolitan attitude and the responsibility for one's own social environment.
Previous laureates of the Erasmus Prize include Charlie Chaplin (1965), Henry Moore (1968), Claude Levi-Strauss (1973), Vaclav Havel (1986), Bernard Haitink (1991), Jacques Delors (1997), Hans van Manen (2000) and Alan Davidson (2003).
http://www.erasmusprijs.org
For more biographical information and an extensive survey of publications by Ian Buruma please refer to http://www.ianburuma.com
SOURCE: Stichting Praemium Erasmianum
CONTACT: Prof. Dr. Max Sparreboom,
Praemium Erasmianum Foundation,
Jan van Goyenkade 5, 1075 HN Amsterdam,
+31-20-6752753,
spe@erasmusprijs.org
Web site: http://www.erasmusprijs.org
http://www.ianburuma.com
Amsterdam (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - In 2008 the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation celebrates it 50th anniversary. His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands founded the Prize in 1958. The Prize is awarded annually to a person who, within the cultural traditions of Europe, has made an especially important contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe. The prize money is a sum of EUR 150.000.
The Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (Amsterdam) has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2008 to the Dutch/British journalist, author and political commentator Ian Buruma.
The official award ceremony of the prestigious Erasmus Prize will take place on 7 November in Rotterdam. The theme of the Prize in this jubilee year is 'The New Cosmopolitan'.
Ian Buruma (1951) a new cosmopolitan.
After studying Chinese in Leiden and Japanese film in Tokyo, he became cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review and foreign editor of The Spectator; since 2003 he is Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. He was chairman of the Humanities Centre of the Central European University in Budapest, fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington. He is member of the scientific advisory council of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and member of the board of Human Rights in China in New York. Ian Buruma has written about Japan, China, Asia and their often problematic
relationships with the West. He is one of the leading international essayists on East-West relations. Ian Buruma is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. His book Murder in Amsterdam on the murder of Theo van Gogh was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Current Interest Book. In 2004 Ian Buruma received an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. In 2008 he is holding the Cleveringa-chair at the University of Leiden and will be professorial fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden.
The Erasmus Prize derives its name and inspiration from the Dutch humanist scholar, Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536). Renowned theologian and teacher, Erasmus was a true world citizen; his view of life was universal: knowledge must prevail over ignorance, order over chaos and humaneness is of greater value than any dogma. Erasmus defended the integrity of the intellect and pleaded for moderation and tolerance. Praise of Folly is one of his best known works.
'The New Cosmopolitan' is a citizen of a new world, in which boundaries of all sorts are easily transcended; where people of diverse cultures work together readily and economic and cultural exchange is intrinsic. The new world citizen likes to picture a world without hindrances, but is forced to confront societal realities, where identity is frequently defined by traditional differences such as nationality, culture, religion or ethnic origins. With this thematic the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation raises the issue of the tension that exists between a cosmopolitan attitude and the responsibility for one's own social environment.
Previous laureates of the Erasmus Prize include Charlie Chaplin (1965), Henry Moore (1968), Claude Levi-Strauss (1973), Vaclav Havel (1986), Bernard Haitink (1991), Jacques Delors (1997), Hans van Manen (2000) and Alan Davidson (2003).
http://www.erasmusprijs.org
For more biographical information and an extensive survey of publications by Ian Buruma please refer to http://www.ianburuma.com
SOURCE: Stichting Praemium Erasmianum
CONTACT: Prof. Dr. Max Sparreboom,
Praemium Erasmianum Foundation,
Jan van Goyenkade 5, 1075 HN Amsterdam,
+31-20-6752753,
spe@erasmusprijs.org
Web site: http://www.erasmusprijs.org
http://www.ianburuma.com
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