2008
Peter Robert Lamont Brown, 73, and Romila
Thapar, 77, are recipients
of the 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
They are the sixth and seventh recipients since the Prize’s 2003 inception.
Each awardee receives half of the $1 million prize.
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Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Lecture: A
Parting of the Ways: Wealth, Working and Poverty in Early Christian
Monasticism
Webcast: A Parting
of the Ways: Wealth, Working and Poverty in Early Christian Monasticism
Romila Thapar
Lecture: Perceptions
of the Past in Early India
2006
John Hope Franklin, 91, and Yu Ying-shih, 76, have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. Endowed by Library of Congress benefactor John W. Kluge, the Kluge Prize rewards lifetime achievement in the wide range of disciplines not covered by the Nobel prizes, including history, philosophy, politics, anthropology, sociology, religion, criticism in the arts and humanities, and linguistics. Each awardee will receive half of the $1 million prize.
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- John Hope Franklin
Bio | Press Release | Remarks [PDF/195k] - Yu Ying-shih
Bio | Press Release | Remarks [PDF/227k]
2004
On November 29, 2004, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the award of the second John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences to Jaroslav Pelikan of New Haven, Conn., and Paul Ricoeur of Paris, France. Billington will present the shared award at a formal ceremony at the Library of Congress at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C.
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- Jaroslav Pelikan
Bio | Press Release - Paul Ricoeur
Bio | Press Release | Acceptance Speech Webcast | Acceptance Speech Transcript
2003
The first recipient of the $1 million John W. Kluge Prize was announced at a news conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003 in the Whittall Pavilion of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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- Leszek Kolakowski
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