Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Amsterdam 2008

This book presents the first comprehensive study of Dime, an endangered Omotic language spoken by about 5400 speakers in south-west Ethiopia. The study presents analysis of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language as well as a sample of ten texts and an extensive word list.

This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…

On May 2nd, Petr Kocharov succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Petr on this great result.

Jeffrey Kotyk defended his thesis on 7 September 2017

This project intends to provide an integrated linguistic assessment of the hypothesised migration route of the Tocharians.

On December 6th, Bob Schoemaker succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bob on this great result.

Holidaymakers, day-trippers and tourists were able to book a University tour, with a student as their guide.

The d12n Research Cluster provides a space for inquiry and intervention into the ongoing digit(al)isation of culture, society, and scholarship. The research cluster aims to link CADS Institute researchers to each other as well as to experts and praticioners from around the world as we combine thinking…

References to nature and the environment in the Caribbean literary and the contemporary age of globalization.

A full overview of THEOR PhD theses.

In the article Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology, Mark Westmoreland describes how multimodality provides anthropologists with a new perspective on how we conduct research, produce scholarship, teach students, and interact with diverse audiences.

Fostering multi-polar perspectives that engage more connected, nuanced and pluralistic understandings of the world. Global Interactions encourages and supports research that provides significant new insights on these global processes across time and space.

This collaborative project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the role of literature and art in the concept’s shifting functions.

This dissertation describes the history of the Ottoman county of Foçateyn as a case study of the process of transition from the Ottoman Empire to nation states.

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Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…

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Writing an operational guide to the ISO standards for LCA and related sub-projects.

Grammatical gender is famously the most puzzling of the grammatical categories. We have a solid typology of gender systems, yet exciting and unexpected patterns keep turning up which defy easy classification and straightforward analysis. Some of these question, stretch or threaten to cross the outer…

Lars Brummel explains in The Conversation that Rutte is a good candidate to counter threats to NATO's cohesion.

The deans (chairs of the faculty boards) form the Board of Deans, which is chaired by the Rector Magnificus.

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1

In our culture, vocal harmonics function as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.

The conquest by Rome brought profound changes to large parts of Europe. Unprecedented infrastructural works were created, towns sprang up, a ribbon of fortresses was laid out along the frontiers.

The sites of Norman Estata, Anse des Pères and Hope Estate with a contribution to the 'La Hueca problem'

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 3

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2

LUXs unites statisticians from all over the university, who are all members of their own faculty. LUXs does not have its own organisational units, but it is coordinated by a Steering Committee.

Time for some music! On the prettiest spot on Leiden’s canals: Rapenburg.

The AAM-LR project aims at building a demonstrator of a web service that will help filed researchers to annotate audio- and video-recordings.

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Some examples of AI-research done at Leiden.

The rapid advances in imaging technology enable to see inside the body with ever increasing detail.

In this article in International Affairs, Saskia Postema and Jan Melissen examine Chinese celebrities' UN-affiliated Weibo activism in the context of China's increasing engagement in the United Nations, which coincides with a shrinking domestic public sphere under Xi Jinping's leadership.

These are the proposed research projects for LEAPS 2019. Please note that not all projects will go ahead and some may still be added in the near future. Final funding decisions lie with the Faculty sponsors. And please make a note that if you are interested in an ESA project, to check if your state…

Collaborative linguistic research on indigenous languages of Ecuador: description, documentation & materials

Empirical Legal Studies has a methodological and substantive component. Our research projects use qualitative and quantitative methods for the empirical study of the intersection between law and behavior. We are interested in the interaction between empirical and normative questions.

The Advisory Board is an external Advisory Council, to advice the Board of Directors of CML about general strategies, research and education activities and evaluation procedures (Dutch: visitatie).

Holidaymakers, day-trippers and tourists were able to book a University tour, with a student as their guide.

Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

Research at the THEOR group is comprised of the following research themes:

The aim of the research project is to get insight in the biostratigraphical age and the palaeoecological setting of the Schöningen sites and hominin behavior and subsistence during the late Lower Palaeolithic.

Imagine: you are at the end of your fieldwork in Peru and ready to go home when all flights get canceled because of Covid-19. It happened to master student Visual Ethnography Mark Lindenberg. By now, four months later than scheduled, he is back in the Netherlands. How does he look back? And what was…

The skin has recently gained attention within body studies for its many specific cultural and social associations, in addition to its biology. This project aims to examine the different layers of meaning and the functions invested in the skin in ancient Greece: how did ancient Greek literary and medical…

A project aimed at understanding the complicated process of religious transformation in one of the centres of the early Muslim world.

The digitisation of society is a worldwide challenge. Not only are robots increasingly taking over human tasks, they are even beating the world champion at solving the most difficult brainteasers.