472 search results for “language culturele and worldviews” in the Student website
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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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Deniz TatFaculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
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Stan van der BurghtFaculty of Humanities
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not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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The spread of Sino-Tibetan languages, agriculture and weaving in East Asia
Lecture
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Olga NozdrachevaFaculty of Humanities
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
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.
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Adrien DadoneFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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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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How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
- 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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Hester GrootFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Aleksandra UttenweilerFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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Natasja DelbarFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
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.
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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
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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Three PhD defences in one day on religious coexistence in Ghana
Last Tuesday was a special day: three researchers defended their PhD dissertations in succession as part of the same project. Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta investigated how people of different religions coexist in Madina in Ghana.
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Fenna PoletiekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Anouschka van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities