1,234 search results for “geert language and culture” in the Student website
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Life in a port city: Roderick Geerts writes a blog post about the ancient port of Berenike
Roderick Geerts, a PhD candidate of the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden, takes us on a short journey through the rich history of the Red Sea port of Berenike in Egypt.
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Ae Ree NamFaculty of Humanities
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Alex Geert Castermans in Het Parool on the right to swim topless
In Berlin, regulations have recently been amended to allow everyone to swim topless. In swimming pools in Amsterdam, women are still required to wear a top piece. Dutch newspaper Het Parool investigates whether Amsterdam swimmers also have the right to dive into the pool without wearing a top.
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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'Language is part of your identity’
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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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Thinley DemaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Abhishek AvtansFaculty of Humanities
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Wenqian FanFaculty of Humanities
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Guus KroonenFaculty of Humanities
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The spread of Sino-Tibetan languages, agriculture and weaving in East Asia
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Irene Van EldereFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin StormeFaculty of Humanities
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Emmanuelle RadarFaculty of Humanities
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Anikó LiptákFaculty of Humanities
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Andreas KrogullFaculty of Humanities
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Stan van der BurghtFaculty of Humanities
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Send in your (Dutch) essay on AI and Culture for the Gerrit Krol Award 2025
Education, Research
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Anthropologist Radhika Gupta Explains India-Pakistan historical and cultural relation in NOS Interview
Learn how the daily Attari-Wagah border ceremony continues despite political tensions between India and Pakistan. Anthropologist Radhika Gupta offers insights into the complex historical and cultural relationship between these two nations in this recent NOS article.
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Workplace and Community: the social and cultural processes of labour movements
Hari Nugroho explores the role of local dynamics in shaping Indonesian labour movements. By focusing on the micro-level, this research reveals how labour organisation strategies are influenced by individual actors' personal histories, their interactions, and the way in which they respond the local economic…
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Luisella CaonFaculty of Humanities
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
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their experiences: ‘The highlight of past year? New friendships and cultural exchanges.’
The academic year is drawing to a close, and summer is on the horizon. FGGA students are working hard to wrap everything up. We asked some of them to reflect on the past year and share their insights and tips for fellow students.
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Jin Hee ParkFaculty of Humanities
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Master's student of Arts and Culture develops own exhibition: 'A very enriching experience'
Many students dread writing a thesis. Master’s student Laura Robustella's practice-based thesis shows that it is well worth the effort. She developed an art exhibition based on her master’s thesis.
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The forgotten deaths of fifteen Chinese workers during the Second World War
On 15 April 1942, members of the Dutch military police on Curaçao shot and killed fifteen Chinese Shell workers. Assistant Professor Vincent Chang has been awarded an NWO XS grant to investigate how this happened and why these Chinese seamen are now being commemorated again after decades of being fo…
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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Navigating a New Culture as a PhD candidate
Personal development, Study support
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Stefan NorbruisFaculty of Humanities
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Esther de VrindICLON
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Jenny AudringFaculty of Humanities
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient Greek spelling mistakes shed new light on language development
If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean. University lecturer Joanne Stolk has been awarded an ERC grant to explore the kinds of spelling mistakes that were made in these scripts. And, more importantly, what improvements…