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Save Dutch Egyptology and ANE studies

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Antoine Cavigneaux
9 years ago

NINO ist eine grossartige institution, über welche die Niederlanden stolz sein dürfen, ich habe wissenschaftlich viel von ihr profitiert und ich möchte, dass sie weiterhin bestehe

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Lyda te Linde
9 years ago

Netherlands.

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Welmoed Out
9 years ago

Het NINO: dat is waar internationale collega's Leiden van kennen en waar ze voor komen.

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Lois Little
9 years ago

The specialist knowledge of the staff for the collections will be lost if they are separated. That knowledge isn't given value until it's not available.

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Michael Everson
9 years ago

Europe must continue its great tradition of scholarship

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John Steenwinkel
9 years ago

NINO must stay! Also students from other universities have enjoyed its hospitality. Assumed benefits of these sort of reorganizations never materialize and only exist in the minds of its creators.

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Wojciech Ejsmond
9 years ago

Closing of NINO would be a great loss to Egyptology! This petition has my support.

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Jonathan Van Lepp
9 years ago

Don't break something that works. Change is not always for the better.

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Dr Alasdair Livingstone
9 years ago

This is a world class Institute that has played a pivotal role in international Assyriology. It stands as a monument to Dutchnacademia.

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Helga Schneider-Ludorff
9 years ago

I am very concerned about this plan. I urge the University of Leiden to support the continuation of an integrated and independend NINO, because the staff of NINO has done excellent work and research.

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Jan Fokkelman
9 years ago

Nino should remain independent; there is no real need to meddle with its existence

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Anette Olivier
9 years ago

Closing the institute will be sad. We need young people to follow in the footsteps of older archaeologists/teachers to keep the history of the ANE alive for the future.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Sometimes independence is the key to a fruitful scholarly cooperation, whereas integration into the greater university apparatus is detrimental to such a cooperation.

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Hendri Schut
9 years ago

An independent NINO in a close symbiosis with the University and the Antiquities Museum, has long since proven its worth. The certainty of successes so far and the continuation of the present constellation (be it in a perhaps slightly altered form) seem to me to provide a far better guarantee for "added scientific value" than embarking on an uncertain project to set up a new structure in which content becomes a fill-in. How will that be beneficiary to Ancient Near Eastern Studies? Once gone... Of course, here, as with every measure-of-economy-in-disguise, the big question is: what is it one really wants to buy for one's money...?

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Anr
9 years ago

Yes please

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Daisuke Shibata
9 years ago

It is really regrettable, if NINO and its library would be closed down. The institution has played and surely will play extremely important role for the academia worldwide. NINO and its library must be maintained.

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Vivien Raisman
9 years ago

This would be a great loss to Egyptology and to the incomparable importance of The Netherlands in this subject

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Lizzy
9 years ago

EMMA 2K17

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Leo Roeten
9 years ago

gezien de ervaring met de bibliotheek van het RMO wordt op deze wijze ook de NINO bibl. onbereikbaar

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Ingrid Oey
9 years ago

Het NINO moet als zelfstandig instituut behouden blijven.