767 search results for “language cultural and worldviews” in the Student website
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Save the Date: Day of Languages and Cultures
Festival
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Course, summer school
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Suzanne AdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Jörn SoerinkFaculty of Humanities
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Renate DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Ineke SluiterFaculty of Humanities
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Louis Verreth -
Inge Kraus
Faculty of Humanities
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Bert van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Thomas KluitenburgFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Amaranth FeuthFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn Waal in Hecho en California: Greek alphabet may be older than we think
Hecho en California highlights associate professor Willemijn Waal’s research on the history of the Greek alphabet.
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Kees GelukFaculty of Humanities
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Hubert MooimanFaculty of Humanities
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Henric JansenFaculty of Humanities
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient Greek spelling mistakes shed new light on language development
If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean. University lecturer Joanne Stolk has been awarded an ERC grant to explore the kinds of spelling mistakes that were made in these scripts. And, more importantly, what improvements…
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Bob van VelthovenFaculty of Humanities
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Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Azeb AmhaAfrika-Studiecentrum
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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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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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‘Eldest sons held the power in ancient Egypt’
For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, PhD candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different. ‘In Egyptian families, it was often the eldest son versus the rest of the children.’
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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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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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Floris Harm studied Chinese, just like one of his ancestors: ‘We’re both trying to promote mutual understanding’
When Floris Harm took up his role as director of the Leiden Asia Centre, he made a remarkable discovery on the university website. It turned out that a past family member was one of Leiden University’s first sinologists.
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
- European Days of Languages
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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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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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks