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Award Ceremony IIAS National Master’s Thesis Prize in Asian studies 2017

On behalf of the Jury, we are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2017 National Master’s Thesis Prize in the broad field of Asian studies. We will meet on Friday 22 February in the Faculty Club of Leiden University to reveal who has won. Do join us on this festive occasion!

On behalf of the jury, we are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2017 IIAS National Master’s Thesis Prize in the broad field of Asian studies!

Award ceremony
The winning thesis will be announced at a festive meeting on Thursday, 22 February 2018, at the Brasserie of the Faculty Club of Leiden University (beside the Academy Building) on Rapenburg 73 in Leiden, between 16.00 and 17.30 hrs.
All welcome, but please register with iias@iias.nl. 

Shortlist 

The following four MA theses in Asian studies submitted at one of the universities in the Netherlands in the academic year 2016/2017, have been shortlisted.
The winner will be awarded a 3-month IIAS fellowship to write a Ph.D. project proposal or a research article. 

The finalists are:

Rory Bowe, Early Marriage and Child Grooms: A case study from in and around Nepalgunj, Nepal. Supervisors: Dr. Esther Miedema and Dr. Courtney Vegelin, Amsterdam University

Milan Ismangil, Dry Foreign Fish. Normalizing nationalistic discourse in the Chinese Dota2 community. Supervisor: Dr. Florian Schneider, Leiden University

Alessia Marazzi, The Inclusiveness Paradigm within the Legitimization Process of Southern Standards. A research on the inclusion of producers within Trustea. Supervisors: Dr. Verena Bitzer and Ceren Pekdemir, Maastricht University

Annelin Verkade, Losing the Land: The consequences of land concessions in Cambodia from a perspective of choice. Supervisor: Dr. Erik de Maaker. Leiden University.

Registration
We hope to see you on 22 February. Everyone is welcome, please send us an email to let us know you are coming: iias@iias.nl.

 

About the IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize

Each year, IIAS awards a prize for the best master’s thesis in the broad field of Asian studies in the humanities or social sciences, written at a Dutch university.

More information: IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize.