The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has selected five outstanding young scientists to receive the Heineken Young Scientists Awards on Sept. 27. This is the second time this biennial prize has been awarded.
The winners are the biologist Geert van den Bogaart, the medical specialist Linda van Laake, the sociologist/historian Uğur Ümit Üngör, the environmental scientist Tjisse van der Heide, and the cognitive scientist Floris de Lange. Each winner receives EUR 10,000 and a specially commissioned work of art.
Sociologist and historian Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör, 31, is receiving the Heineken Young Scientists Award for History for his historical-sociological research on mass violence, nationalism, and the creation of states. Üngör has already received a number of prizes for his PhD research on the creation of the Turkish nation state in the period from 1913 to 1950, a politically sensitive issue. He has an impressive list of publications that includes three monographs, and has become an international authority in the field of genocide studies. Üngör is now a lecturer at Utrecht University and a lecturer/researcher with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD). He also writes satirical columns and essays on cosmopolitan life and on political and cultural boundaries. The jury calls Üngör an outstanding, dedicated researcher who has already achieved a great deal. Amongst other things, it praises his ability to preserve a balance as regards the politically troublesome research topic of genocide.
The Heineken Young Scientists Awards are intended for promising young scientists whose outstanding research means that they set an example for other young scientists. The Academy’s aim with the awards is to provide an additional incentive for talented researchers of the up-and-coming generation.
To read Dr. Üngör’s articles published in the Armenian Weekly magazines, click here.
Worth to see his lecture …I watched many times…
Based o reasoning…and analysis…!
http://youtu.be/Rl0vBt2VyeQ
Watched it.
You’re right Sylva: definitely worth it.
Whatever his analysis are, this guy and others will have to go back to square one
“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule … They have hitherto lived on plunder, robbery and bribery and become inimical to any idea, or suggestion to enlist in useful labor and earn their living by the honest sweat of their brow … Under the cloak of the opposition party, this element, who forced our country into the Great War against the will of the people, who caused the shedding of rivers of blood of the Turkish youth to satisfy the criminal ambition of Enver Pasha, has, in a cowardly fashion, intrigued against my life, as well as the lives of the members of my cabinet.”
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, August 1, 1926.
“Whatever his analysis are, this guy and others will have to go back to square one”
Is that a threat?
The man has presented his research with sources on which it’s based and all you have to say this that? I suppose that’s all you can actually say.
Congratulatons! I am glad that he is very young and capable to do more and more on behalf of humanity. Thanks, Umit!
Turkey wants to be seen as western, modern and a part of Europe. What they don’t seem to understand is that the worst humanitarian event in European history, the Holocaust, involved a government turning against its own citizens, and was modeled after the Young Turk campaign against the Armenians. The genocide is the father of the other. So, if Turkey sees the Holocaust as such an evil event that they commemorate it officially, they should, at the least, commemorate the murder of their own citizens by a rogue government that went insane, instead of siding with the criminal perpetrators. No one sees the Young Turk program as either progressive or enlightened, because in essence, they destroyed Turkey. So why protect them and their memory? This is something hard to understand. Anyone who works to shed light on their evil deeds, such as Ungor, Akcam and others, and opens the eyes of the Turkish people to their own history, should be honored profusely. In all honestly, ‘square one’ (whatever that’s suppsed to be) was passed long ago. Today, the only holdouts seems to be the ultranationalists and propagandists who feel compelled to prop up the lies of the CUP, that, like a house of cards, nervously wait for the next breeze of truth that will topple them. It is already in the wind, my friends, it is already in the wind.
Karekin
Please check out the foreign ministry website and you will find all the answers for your questions
john the turk,
Did you watch the video?
Random
yes I did but my comments didn’t get posted