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Ama – a warrior deity in the Avesta, his name and functions, and their Indo-Iranian and Indo-European backgrounds
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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“All the aids which a beginner needs”: James Summers’ (1828-1891) research on Chinese grammar
PhD defence
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Sociolinguistic Features in Vedic Sanskrit: Women’s Speech in Seduction and Curse Charms of the Atharvaveda
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Recent runic finds, mostly from the earliest runic period AD 0-500
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Participant reference in Boa-Leboale
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Second 'Retired and Kicking' symposium
Lecture, Retired and Kicking
- HANDS! Festival
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
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European foreign policy after a crisis: change and continuity
‘Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy.’ That is the title of Nikki Ikani’s book that was published last month. We asked the writer five questions about her book. Presentation: 5 & 20 April.
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Blog Post | Pandemics, Bricks-and-Mortar, and Heads of Mission
Jorge Heine writes about 'bricks-and-mortar' diplomatic posts and their significance during a pandemic.
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Justice for Syria is possible, but only if political will exists
Atrocities have been the order of the day in Syria since war broke out in 2011, but the perpetrators are rarely tried. According to PhD candidate Elizabeth Van Schaack, the international community could bring justice in Syria, but only if there is political will. PhD defence on 29 April 2020.
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The eighty-year-old Leiden Papyrological Insitute has a small but great collection
The Leiden Papyrological Institute celebrated its eightieth birthday on Monday 19 January. Its collection of papyri – including paper, potsherds, pieces of wood and even lead – covers the period from 300 B.C. until after 800 A.D. and is entirely of Egyptian origin. The institute’s anniversary is being…
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Six university buildings you can visit on the Open Monument Days
Of the 32 historic buildings that are opening their doors to the public on the Open Monument Days on 8 and 9 September, five are University buildings. The Hortus Botanicus is also open.
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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.
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Graduation MIRD Class of 2022: Students in the spotlight
On Monday, 4 July 2022, the graduation of the two-year Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) programme was commemorated in the iconic Academy Building in Leiden. Students and guests were welcomed by the Program Director, Professor Madeleine Hosli.
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Library staff aim to maintain services and collections
The people behind the Leiden University Libraries aim to maintain the level of their services to clients as much as possible. They are making thankful use of internet, but not everything can be put online.
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Vibrant illustrations and mind-boggling graphs - Psychology students share insights into their research
Why do some smokers quit much more easily than others? Can we think ourself to insomnia? And does playing music together help to calm conflicts? Psychology students investigated these questions and presented their findings during the Psychology Science Day 2023.
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Developing Sesotho as medium of instruction at tertiary level - challenges and opportunities
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Rhetoric and Debate : A Toolkit for Historians
Lecture, PCNI Research Group State of the Art Meeting
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*Cancelled* Mini Symposium: Reinforcement Learning
Lecture
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Non-Native Tone Categorization and Word Learning Across a Spectrum of L1 Tonal Statuses: Evidence from Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, and Thai
Lecture, research presentation
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The impact of the French wh-in-situ option in the acquisition of L2 English questions: An analysis of transfer
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The two tiers of noun incorporation in Iraqw
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Multidisciplinary dialogues on the human past of the Urubamba/Ucayali basin: towards a new synthesis
Conference
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Documentary series #1: Memories of Communism in Lebanon - Two Videos by Marwan Hamdan
Documentary screening
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward
Conference, Symposium
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Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)
Conference
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2022
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle Eastern Culture Market
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke (Bantu B70)
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (5)
Workshop Series
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Spanish-English contact in the Falkland Islands
Lecture
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AI & Humanities, Help, Hype or Hassle
Conference
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Watañi lāntaṃ
PhD defence
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Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
Conference, Workshop
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Alternating Dat-Nom / Nom-Dat constructions in Indo-European and the Extended Intransitive Hypothesis
Conference, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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Artificial intelligence flourishing in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam are important players in the world of self-learning machines that can work together with people. Moreover, the three have close ties in the field of AI and hope to further strengthen this collaboration in the future.…
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Kim Beerden: 'The programme accreditation was good for the team spirit.'
Accreditations. All study programmes have to deal with them and once every six years they cause a good amount of tension. How do you survive the assessment panel? And how does an accreditation proceed in times of corona? Chair of education Kim Beerden recently coordinated the accreditation for the research…
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers
Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enable them to continue and expand their scientific research.
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New Year's resolutions? We'll help you out!
Work out more, eat healthier, have more time to yourself: we make resolutions every year, but they often don't make it past the end of January. To help you succeed this year, we have compiled a list with New Year's resolutions you can put into practice at the University!