Curtis Dozier wrote:
> The "Jury Report" at http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5VNCW6 is in
> Dutch ...
> Perhaps others who can read Dutch can tell us more.
Here is a quick translation done with Google and minimally cleaned up.
Accuracy not guaranteed.
RH
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Prof. Dr. I. (Ineke) Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and
Literature at Leiden University.
Ineke Sluiter (Amsterdam, November 13, 1959) is a classicist. She
operates at the intersection of linguistics and cultural history. She
does research on ancient ideas about language and their social impact,
for example in education practice. She is a humanities scholar par
excellence. She compares the values of antiquity with those of today.
Leading the field in its international workshops jointly with the
University of Pennsylvania, the interdisciplinary workshop will
examine the discourse on values in antiquity, ranging from male
courage to wickedness. It also looks at the role of language in
shaping social identity.
Sluiter is chairman of the Division for Humanities Board and
Scientific Director of OIKOS, the national research school of
classicists. She wrote with Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)
'Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric’. That's the equivalent of a thousand
pages on linguistics and literary theory in the period between 300 and
1475. Sluiter is leading a team of researchers who are making a new
Greek-Dutch dictionary. She is a trigger for young talent.
Sluiter should be at ease beyond the boundaries of her field. She is
co-organizer of a symposium on literature and evolutionary theory,
Studium Generale. She gives lectures and has produced audio books on
Socrates, the Iliad and the Odyssey and Oedipus. She gave a famous
foundation day speech on the binding and oppressive power of language,
and publishes on ancient and modern ideas about freedom of expression.
Short CV
Ineke Sluiter studied Greek and Latin Languages and Culture at the
Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She graduated cum laude in 1990 at
the VU. From 1984 to1997 she was a researcher and lecturer at the VU.
She has also spent several years on the KNAW Academy Project. Since
1998, Sluiter has been a professor at Leiden University.
Sluiter did research and taught at institutions including Berlin,
Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Pennsylvania, New York and Princeton; also
Leiden, Nijmegen, Groningen and Amsterdam. In 2001 she received the
award for best teacher from Leiden students.
Foreign experts
Foreign experts call Sluiter a leader in the study of ancient grammar.
They praise her talent in a small, dry and technical field, as
linguistics extends from the Greeks to other fields. The experts also
found Sluiter an international bridge builder. She looks beyond her
own field and allows both to connect to other humanities and with
current debates in society.
Contact
Hilje Papma (press officer Leiden University)
Telephone: 071 527 3282 and 06,113,515 in 1962
E-mail: ***@leidenuniv.nl
Internet 1: http://leidsewetenschappers.leidenuniv.nl/show.php3?medewerker_id=63
Internet 2: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/organisation/members/sluiteri.html