420 search results for “been language” in the Staff website
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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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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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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544
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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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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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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.
- Nova Verkerk has been appointed assessor of the faculty board
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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The new faculty academic year has been opened
On Tuesday 5 September, the opening of the faculty year took place at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building. Staff and students gathered in the Cleveringa Room to take part in the interactive part of the programme.
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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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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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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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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
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Turning the tide from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality
Inaugural lecture
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements?
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…
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Jim Been new PhD Dean - 'I hope to alleviate certain pressures that PhD candidates might feel'
The Associate Professor at the Institute of Tax Law and Economics is one of two PhD deans at Leiden Law School and started in this position on 1 October 2023.
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards Embodied Gnosis through a Dancing Language
PhD defence
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Investigations conducted by child protection bodies have been 'substandard for some time'
Investigations conducted by several Dutch child protection bodies within family situations are inadequate. Due to lack of knowledge, time and money, these investigations are not carried out properly, with major consequences for the families involved.
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Accessibility LUC by car has been changed
Facility
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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‘Islamic primary schools have been important for Muslim emancipation’
The opening of Islamic primary schools has made an important contribution to the emancipation and integration of Muslims in the Netherlands. This is the conclusion of PhD candidate Bahaeddin Budak in his research into 25 years (1988-2013) of Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands. PhD defence on…
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The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Linguistics and AI Discussion Series: "Using machine translation for language learning in the classroom"
Lecture, Discussion
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Judi Mesman on leaving LUC: ‘It’s been a wild ride’
A moment of reminiscence and to see what lies ahead. After having been Dean of Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) for six years, Judi Mesman takes the time to reflect.
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Quantity expressions on nominal and verbal domain in underrepresented languages spoken in Brazil
Lecture
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Alumni interview with Marleen Hogendoorn
Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ.
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Exploring this country has been the experience I didn’t know I needed’
17 November is International Student’s Day, dedicated to showcasing the international experience of international students in the Netherlands.
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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FGGA students look back: ‘My life has never been busier, but I would not change it’
It is the final stretch for the students of FGGA. Summer is approaching and they are working hard to complete everything before the summer holidays. We asked some of them how they look back at the academic year. ‘Being a mentor during HOP week is something I can recommend to everyone’
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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LUCDH Workshop: An Introduction to Large Language Models in the Humanities
Lecture
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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’
The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal Council. How are brand-new student councillors Mitchell Wiegand Bruss and Elianne Wijnands doing? ‘We’ve already asked questions about the quality of…
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Lena and Sophie have been selected as Europaeum Fellow: ‘Excited to learn from others’
Four PhD researchers of Leiden University have been selected to participate in the Europaeum Scholars Program 2022-2023. Two of them, Lena Riecke and Sophie Vértiter, are doing their research at ISGA. Time for a introduction.
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Meet Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective…
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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference