1,969 search results for “language and cultural of the world” in the Student website
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Peter VerhaarLeiden University Library
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Security Studies, you learn about everything that is going wrong in the world right now
Four students who completed the Bachelor's in Security Studies share their experiences. What did they learn? Where did they end up after graduating? And do they still use the skills they acquired during their studies?
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Ilone de Vries-LemaireFaculty of Archaeology
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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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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Karolina PomorskaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Yee Man NgFaculty of Science
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Tijm LanjouwFaculty of Archaeology
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Sam BotanFaculty of Archaeology
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Fenno NoijFaculty of Archaeology
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Merel SpithovenFaculty of Archaeology
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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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Svetlana KharchenkovaFaculty of Humanities
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Daybreak in Gaza - Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Debate, BookTalk
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Fitri MurfiantiSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Djibrila TetereouFaculty 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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Peter AkkermansFaculty of Archaeology
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Marijke KooijmanFaculty of Humanities
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Chuang Liu
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Xiaochen ZhengSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Tina Cambier-LangeveldFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia DunnFaculty of Humanities
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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Leiden students help with primary school language lessons
De Regenboog primary school in The Hague has a high percentage of children whose first language is not Dutch. In the ‘Children of the City’ project, Education and Child Studies students help primary school children practise their Dutch.
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Brian McGarryFaculty of Law
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Thea CoventryFaculty of Law
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Hilde WokerFaculty of Law
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Svetlana Kharchenkova on The Diplomat about decreased number of U.S. books in China
The number of books by U.S. authors released in China has drastically decreased in recent years. Assistant professor Svetlana Kharchenkova wrote an article about this for the Diplomat.
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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Marianne van Dijken
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Marie KolbenstetterFaculty of Archaeology
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculty of Law
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Valentin RosarioFaculty of Science
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs WittyFaculty of Humanities