769 search results for “language cultural and worldviews” in the Student website
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Save the Date: Day of Languages and Cultures
Festival
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Course, summer school
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Suzanne AdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Jörn SoerinkFaculty of Humanities
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Renate DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Ineke SluiterFaculty of Humanities
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Louis Verreth -
Inge Kraus
Faculty of Humanities
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Bert van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Thomas KluitenburgFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Amaranth FeuthFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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Hubert MooimanFaculty of Humanities
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Henric JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Kees GelukFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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Bob van VelthovenFaculty of Humanities
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Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Azeb AmhaAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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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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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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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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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
- 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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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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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