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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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Emoticons in Ancient Egypt
The advent of script has never managed to eliminate the use of symbols. This is the finding of research carried out by Kyra van der Moezel on Ancient Egyptian identity marks. PhD defence 7 September.
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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'.
- Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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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 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!
- Interactionality seminars
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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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Tunen syntax within a structural typology of Aux-O-V word orders
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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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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Conceptual Metaphors and Etymology: the case of Homeric Greek κερτομέω ‘to mock’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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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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A New Database, Family Tree and Origins Hypothesis for the Indo-European Language Family
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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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
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HiSoN Summer School 2022
Conference, Summer School
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Interaction of co-morphologies in Berber
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Language Policy in Africa - the why and how of a new journal
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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Anatolian evidence for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European 1st and 2nd plural personal pronouns
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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A ruki mistake? From aporia to apriorism
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Multicultural structure at the satrapal centre Daskyleion in North-western Anatolia
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Equine coat colors in Indo-Iranian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- Language and the human past
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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The Diachronic Phonology of Indo-Iranian Loanwords in Balti and Ladakhi
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars