357 search results for “old english language” in the Staff website
- Language and the human past
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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A Tale in Two Tongues: Storytelling in Filipino and English
Arts and culture, A Tale in Two Tongues: The added value of multilingualism
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Legal Analysis of Access to Old-Age Public Pension Benefits in Rwanda
PhD defence
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LLRC Multilingualism in the Language Classroom Roundtable
Debate, Roundtable LLRC Event
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
- Una Europa: European Day of Languages
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Florian SchneiderFaculty of Humanities
f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2027
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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BRCA1-associated breast cancer: finding new weapons for an old villain
PhD defence
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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Medievalisms on the 19th-century English Stage
PhD defence
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Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme
PhD defence
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Young Interfaculty Lunch on Inclusive language
Lecture
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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words
Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the development of word production in toddlers.
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Card making: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Pitfalls for Advanced Writers of Academic English & Word Order (Graduate School FSW)
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Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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Exhibition of sound installation 'Bird language' by Helena Nikonole
Exhibition, Exhibition
- Have your say on the quality of our teaching (in English)
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Turning the tide from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality
Inaugural lecture