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1,533 search results for “language and culture of the world” in the Student website

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  Jan van Dijkhuizen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joanne Stolk University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carmen van den Bergh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Keiko Yoshioka Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Victoria Nyst Associate professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Esther Op de Beek University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Bisschop Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olaf Kaper Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Egbert Fortuin Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

• Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change Event - 10 July 2026

  Conference

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  Martine Bruil University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics Event - 24 August 2026

  Conference

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  Alisa van de Haar University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rogier Creemers Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Casper Wits University Lecturer East Asia Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Matthijs Westera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Florian Schneider Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology Event - 20 March 2026

  Lecture, Language and the Human Past

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  Remco Breuker Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lisa Cheng Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages News - 6 October 2025

  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 Kloekhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ben Arps Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jürgen Zangenberg Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 'Language is part of your identity’ News - 17 March 2025

  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 Schaeken Interim Vice-dean / Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and cultural history

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’ News - 18 December 2025

  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.

• Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’ News - 12 December 2025

  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.

• National language and feminist activism in Republican China: the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

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  Dick Smakman University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carel Smith Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Ronald Kon Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia? News - 15 July 2024

  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 Liebregts Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Inge Ligtvoet Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rick Honings Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor Event - 6 November 2025

  Arts and culture, Opera lecture

• Alumni from the French Language and Culture programme return to Leiden: ‘I feel like an ambassador for the language’ News - 10 June 2025

  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.

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  Ellen Raven Guest Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Negation in Dutch Sign Language Event - 28 May 2026

  Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

• Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist Event - 19 March 2025

  Film screening

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities