511 search results for “language culturele and worldviews” in the Student website
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Fei BaiFaculty of Humanities
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Brenda AssendelftFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn LemmenFaculty of Humanities
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Michaël OpgenhaffenFaculty of Humanities
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Martin KroonFaculty of Humanities
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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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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'
On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.
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Pascale EskesFaculty of Humanities
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Make a difference for asylum seekers: sign up to be a (language) buddy!
Education, Social
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Lecture and Exhibition
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Vacancy: Research-Assistant Data Management Humanities
Research
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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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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert FortuinFaculty 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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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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‘A last-minute challenge became my biggest breakthrough’
Data Science & AI student Nataliia Bagan combines a passion for mathematics, language, and artificial intelligence. Her exceptional bachelor’s thesis on improving reasoning in large language models earned her a nomination for the Leiden Science Young Talent Award 2025.
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Ian ShenFaculty of Science
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Two Dialogic Network lectures by Siavash Rafiee Rad and Keramat Fathinia
Lecture
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…
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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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Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees
What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's in Russian and Eurasian Studies who regularly help the Ukrainian refugees. They act as the link between the refugees and aid workers at various reception…
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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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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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Vacancy: Research-Assistant Data Management Humanities (apply before 10 June)
Research
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Vacancy: Student assistant LUCRIS helpdesk (0,3 FTE)
ICT, Organisation
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she can use as she wishes to explore new avenues in basic scientific research.
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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Programme
Humanities Lab consists of four modules, a Bachelor Honours Class and a concluding project. You will cross academic boundaries and view the world through the lens of Humanities.