700 search results for “language culturele and world view” in the Student website
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Pascale EskesFaculty of Humanities
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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Lettie Dorst: ‘Translation programmes change how we interpret the world’
Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT translate words and expressions used metaphorically. This still regularly goes wrong, resulting in far too literal, incorrect and sometimes incomprehensible…
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Anna-Alexandra MarholdFaculty of Law
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
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Jelena ProkicFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Amos van BaalenFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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Ian ShenFaculty of Science
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Marianne van Dijken
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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Iris KoleAdministration and Central Services
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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TED Talks for a better world
At the conference of the Honours College Science & Society, students present TED Talks on a social issue of their interest. ‘It brings together everything they have learned in the past two and a half years.’
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Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’
Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.
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Lustrum: 75 years English Language and Culture programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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Mark DriessenFaculty of Archaeology
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Ahmad Rifai
Leiden University Library
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Yiwen Zou
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Nanouk Sabel
Faculty of Humanities
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Floris Meertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
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Roberta Schiralli
Faculty of Humanities
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Tracy Huang
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
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René Wezel
Faculty of Humanities
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Florence Fabbricotti
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities
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Annabel Meester
Faculty of Humanities
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities