873 search results for “oudengelse taal en culture” in the Student website
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people
Exploring logging's real impact: Insights from Anthropologist Tessa Minter in the Solomon Islands.
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China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’
Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past decade or so. University lecturer Vincent Chang tells us more about this far-reaching development.
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
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Update Executive Board: Impact of government cuts, drastic measures required
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
- European Days of Languages
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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decolonization and the challenges of Plurinational State/ Bolivia: Reflexiones en su Bicentenario de independencia, descolonizacion y los desafios del
Lecture
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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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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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…
- Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans
Lecture
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Book Launch: Explorations in Islamic Archaeology
Book Launch
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International Translation Day 2024
Lecture, Discussion
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Asia Academy #04: The Korean Wave
Lecture
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Open House Faculty of Archaeology
Festival, Open House
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Analysis of clustering algorithms and performance evaluation metrics applied to samples of the Tell El-Yahudiya ware typology
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Mayke KaagAfrican Studies Centre
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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Roeland EmausFaculty of Archaeology
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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S. ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Ariëlle ReitsemaFaculty of Humanities
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
- CADS Research Seminars
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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India - Pakistan: Een grensconflict met diepe wortels
Lecture, Leids Actualiteitencollege
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series