1,710 search results for “language and culture of the world” in the Staff website
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Languages and Cultures of the World Page is now online
In accordance with the Faculty Strategic Plan, the thematic page on Languages and Cultures of the World has been launched. It provides an overview of the university's expertise in the field of Languages and Cultures. This theme is one of the four core areas that position the expertise of the Faculty…
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Keiko YoshiokaFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change
Conference
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Programme innovation at Dutch Language and Culture
In 2018, the undergraduate programme Dutch Language and Culture embarked on sweeping programme innovations to educate its students ‘in a way that focusses more on the challenges of Dutch Studies in a 21st century society’. What does this entail and what was the approach? Esther Op de Beek, university…
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
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National language and feminist activism in Republican China: the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education
Lecture, China Seminar
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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Dick SmakmanFaculty of Humanities
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Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments
Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.
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Carel SmithFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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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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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Alumni from the French Language and Culture programme return to Leiden: ‘I feel like an ambassador for the language’
The pews of the Walloon Church were filled on Friday 23 May, as more than 120 former students of the French Language and Culture programme gathered to attend mini-lectures, a short theatre performance, and a discussion about the state of the discipline.