869 search results for “comparative indo-european linguistics” in the Student website
- Vote for the Faculty Council and the University Council elections this week!
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme. The grant will enable them and their project teams to carry out their own teaching innovation project.
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Alex Geurds new Professor in Central American archaeology: 'A professorship as a unifying force'
The appointment of Alex Geurds as Professor in Central American Archaeology reinvigorates an existing focus within the faculty. 'The research chair offers opportunities to make cross-connections, across departments and disciplines.'
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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL
With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden.
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
- Una Europa: European Day of Languages
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Sources and Strategies in Translating the Canonical Readings of the Qur’an: A case study of Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
- Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
- Netherlands Institute Morocco information session
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researchers will be able to devote themselves to their PhD research. Let’s meet these new PhD candidates!
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Convenience and community: How Armenians entered and settled in Venice and Amsterdam, 1650-1730
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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The Rise and Fall of the Limburgish tone
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Labeling reduced clauses in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
- Leiden Translation Talks
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
Lecture, CHiLL series
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Fireside Peace Chat with Arnold Stepanyan
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language / Andere vormen van taalbegrip / Otras formas de entender el lenguaje
Course, Workshop
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African methodologies in academic research
Lecture
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68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
Conference
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar