1,129 search results for “iranian language and culture” in the Student website
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Zane Kripe
Faculty of Science
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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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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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Yee Man NgFaculty of Science
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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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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Lucien van BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Fitri MurfiantiSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Areti LeventiFaculty of Archaeology
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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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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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Chuang LiuFaculty 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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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia DunnFaculty of Humanities
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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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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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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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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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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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Floris KeehnenFaculty of Archaeology
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Valentin RosarioFaculty of Science
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Abbas Siavash AbkenarFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs WittyFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne Wong-A-FoeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Katrien KlepFaculty of Law
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn MandersFaculty of Archaeology
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Carina van den HovenFaculty of Humanities
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'
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Alumnus Adrian Young gives lecture on cultural heritage to AHK students
On Monday 9 May, IIASL alumnus Adrian Young gave a very satisfying cross-disciplinary session between law and the arts, on the preservation of heritage in space.
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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S. ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Ariëlle ReitsemaFaculty of Humanities
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Alessandro AleoFaculty of Archaeology
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Nurul Huda Binte Abdul RashidSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Dilara ErzeybekSocial & Behavioural Sciences