Interesting for Indonesian students holding a BA honours or the equivalent in history, humanities or social sciences: Encompass scholarships at Leiden University.The application form can be downloaded at the website (see link) and must be submitted on or before 1 March 2015. Encompass: Encountering a common past in Asia. The program gives MA and PhD students from all over the world the opportunity to work with Dutch-language research materials and Dutch sources. The quality of historical research depends for an important part on the sources available to the researcher. It almost goes without saying that any student seriously interested in the early modern history of South Africa and South- and Southeast Asia, for example, would profit from the priceless sources left by the VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie; Dutch East India Company), while the source material left by the Dutch colonial authorities in the East Indies is of crucial importance to research on the 19th- and 20th-century history of Indonesia. Access to the above-mentioned sources, however, has long been problematic for Asian students for the simple reason that they are unacquainted with the Dutch language. By making new source materials accessible to students, we hope to open the doors for a new wave of historical research. Various archival institutions, both in the Netherlands and in Asia, hold an enormous amount of relevant Dutch sources: the National Archives in the Hague, the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia, and the Sri Lankan National Archives, to name a few. Sources range from the 17th-century accounts of VOC explorers (which describe early encounters — from the inhabitants of Mocca in Arabia to the Japanese in the Far East), to the detailed 19th- and 20th-century administrative materials of the colonial government in Indonesia. More information: hum.leiden.edu/history/cosmopolis/about/encompass-encountering-a-common-past-in-asia.html
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:35:20 +0000
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