1,038 search results for “leiden africa language” in the Staff website
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this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Una Europa–Africa Partnership Seed Funding Call 2023: Launch webinar
Webinar
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Agnieszka KazimierczukAfrika-Studiecentrum
a.h.kazimierczuk@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Wouter van BeekAfrika-Studiecentrum
w.e.a.van.beek@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6641
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Fábio Bonfim DuarteFaculty of Humanities
f.bonfim.duarte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069
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LeidenASA Lecture: Inclusive growth and venture capital in Africa
Lecture
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Kaya PeerdemanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
k.j.peerdeman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3622
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
p.liebregts@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2160
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
o.van.marion@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2128
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Jessie SunFaculty of Humanities
j.sun.14@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel
Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize
Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…
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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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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maarten JansenFaculteit Archeologie
m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2439
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2413
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2033
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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God's Waiting Room | Casey Golomski
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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Zsuzsika SjoerdsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
z.sjoerds@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5437
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Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Lecture
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
Lecture
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Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Africa's New Era of Austerity
Lecture
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3903