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Seven Leiden researchers win €1.5m Vici grant
Seven Leiden researchers have each been awarded a Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This will enable them to form a research group and develop their own innovative line of research.
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‘Technology shouldn’t shape our future; we should’
Technology holds so much promise – from self-driving cars to enhanced physical performance from smart implants under the skin. But we should not let ourselves be caught off guard. That is the message of Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science in his inaugural lecture on 21 May. ‘We don’t talk…
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy
Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join The Young Academy (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) KNAW)).
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How to create a successful transnational learning environment
With more than 20,000 Omani students registered in British programmes in 2017/2018, the number of transnational students is quite substantial in Oman. The transnational learning environment is new to practically all the teaching staff as well as the students. Antonia Lamers, PhD at ICLON, researched…
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ChatGPT has left-wing bias in Stemwijzer voting advice application
The AI chatbot ChatGPT has a clear left-liberal bias when filling in the Stemwijzer voting advice application. This was discovered by master's student Merel van den Broek during an assignment for the Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing course.
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Are you interested in Morocco? Take a minor in Rabat!
Students interested in the study of Morocco can enroll in English-taught minor ‘Culture and Society in Morocco’, starting in September at the NIMAR institute in Rabat. The minor is accessible for all students of universities in The Netherlands.
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A picture tells a thousand words
Besides being a linguist, George Saad is also a photography fanatic. He shares his most beautiful and telling pictures, shot during his field research in Eastern Indonesia.
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Children learn early on that scientists are men
When children were asked to draw a scientist, a bald, middle-aged man in a white coat was most often depicted. Why is that? A group of Leiden University science communication researchers discovered that children already get this impression in primary school. Published in PLOS ONE on 16 November.
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Three ERC Advanced Grants for Leiden researchers
Archaeologist Frans Theuws, Buddhism specialist Jonathan Silk and mathematician Ronald Cramer have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros.
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Area Studies Week from 2-5 June: Join our live Q&As!
Interested in Area Studies? Then Leiden is the place to be! Join our Online Area Studies Week from 2-5 June to find out more. From Africa to Brasil and from Korea to Russia, Leiden covers all areas and fields, both in language, literature, history, politics and socio-economics. Join our live Q&As!
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Open Day: 'What's the right degree programme for me?'
Leiden's city centre, bathed in autumn sunshine and teeming with visitors. On 14 October, several thousands of students and their parents came to visit the University's Open Day. We spoke to a number of students at the information fair in the Pieterskerk; each of them had their own questions, doubts…
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Master’s Open Day: Explore your options!
On 2 November, more than 800 students visited Leiden's Humanities Faculty to explore their options during the Master's Open Day. Read some of their stories here!
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Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award
Philosophy lecturer Victor Gijsbers has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Education Award. The Faculty Education Award is given each year to the Faculty’s most inspiring lecturer. After attending one of Gijsbers’s lectures, the jury said it was impressed by his energy and dry humour.
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?'
Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently against people with a gender expression that does not match their birth sex. Why does this evoke such resistance? We asked Professor by special appointment…
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Introducing: Monika Baar
Monika Baar started working in Leiden in September 2015. She's currently the project leader of the ERC Research Project 'Rethinking Disability'.
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Students meet each other from a distance
For a lot of students, the covid crisis means that a sense of community is hard to find during their studies. Lettie Dorst, university lecturer of translation studies and English linguistics, explains how she tries to create a 'community of learners’.
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Mapping historical marine life: Johannes Müller is researching the history of ecosystems
The underwater world around present-day Indonesia has changed greatly in recent centuries as a result of human activity. University lecturer Johannes Müller has been awarded an NWO XS grant to map the history of the Indonesian ecosystems.
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Kiem project on safety and dangers in the digital world results in new research network
No less than 33 project received a Leiden Kiem grant in 2023. How did they fare? Olga Bogolyubova shares experiences from her project ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Safety and Danger in the Digital World’.
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture
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COOP #3: The Sociolinguistics of Trigger Words
Lecture
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Hidden patterns in space: What geography can tell us about language evolution.
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (3)
Workshop Series
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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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Language as shaped by and for social interaction
Lecture
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference
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Family as a language policy regime: power, agency and negotiations at home
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
- LACG Meetings
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Speech Surrogacy on the African Talking Drums: exploring the Yoruba Drum Language
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Nominalizations and their arguments in Iraqw
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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The Proposed Languages in Education Policy for Botswana: Will it Make Local Languages a Social Development Resource?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Studying bilingualism in the Indian context
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Opportunities for language revitalisation through digitization: the example of Ejagham
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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French, Standard Arabic and Amazigh: experiences and challenges in Morocco
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Cameroon: From colonial discriminatory decrees to forging new multilingual language policies
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (1)
Workshop Series
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (4) and Introduction to QGIS Workshop
Workshop Series
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Tunen syntax within a structural typology of Aux-O-V word orders
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Towards a functionalist theory of language contact. With special reference to Romani, and with implications for the architecture of the language
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Stancetaking and morphosyntactic variation: Insights from two case studies of complementizer (that)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series