2,026 search results for “language and culture of the world” in the Student website
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Nainunis Aulia IzzaFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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International Studies degree: a skillset to navigate the world
On Friday 29 August 2025, 370 students received their Bachelor's degree in International Studies. The diplomas were awarded in the historic setting of the Pieterskerk in Leiden. Family members, friends, and staff gathered to celebrate this joyous occasion with the graduates in a packed Pieterskerk.
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Experience Day Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology On Campus
Study information, Experience Day
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Anastasia ZhangFaculty of Archaeology
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Salvador Santino in various media outlets on tensions between USA and Venezuela: ‘Pressure helps Trump claim results’
Associate professor Salvador Santino Regilme spoke in various media outlets about the tensions between the United States and Venezuela.
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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University energy campaign: ‘Warm yourself, not the world’
Sky-high energy prices and a climate that keeps getting warmer: it’s clear that we have to turn down the heat. Sustainability Day on 10 October will mark the start of our five-month Energy Campaign and we’ll be making the switch. Sustainability Coordinators Aranka Virágh (Real Estate) and Marlies Nijemeisland…
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Heritage & Material Culture MSc Policy in Practice | Leiden University
Present imaginations of the past and its tangible and intangible dimensions, are a major factor in the ways in which societies, and the various groups which constitute these, imagine themselves. Research Internships that fall within this category are being offered by for example museums, municipalities…
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Fenna PoletiekSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Travis BowmanFaculty of Humanities
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How do you protect the world against cybercrime? Become the professional of the future
Examining cybercrime from criminological, legal, administrative, and technical perspectives. The new Bachelor's programme in Cybersecurity & Cybercrime addresses the growing demand for versatile cyber professionals..
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Gül Aktürk HauserFaculty of Archaeology
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Joost GrootensFaculty of Humanities
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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Emma BrekelmansFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Afraid of the vacuum cleaner? ‘Uncertainty about the world can cause anxiety in young children’
People suffer from anxiety wait on average twelve years before seeking professional help. That’s a pity and it’s unnecessary, says development psychologist Leonie Vreeke. She is therefore developing prevention programmes where parents learn to react in a helpful way to anxious behaviour on the part…
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Adriana Churampi RamirezFaculty of Humanities
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Dissertation: Is it One Nile? The complexity and diversity of the world's longest river
Abeer Abazeed, PhD-student at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, will defend her thesis on Wednesday april 21st. Four questions about her PhD-research ‘Is it One Nile? Civic engagement and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin’.
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Policy in Practice Research projects MSC Cultural Anthropology | Leiden University
The Sociology of Policy in Practice track of the Master Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology offers students the opportunity to work on an individual three-month research project with a NGO, government agency, small or large-scale company, museum or knowledge institute, either in the Netherlands…
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Driving skills: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Tracing mobility and connection to place in the world’s first farming villages
How did people move and form communities when human societies first shifted from hunting and gathering to farming? A new study of the Neolithic period in southwest Asia, the birthplace of agriculture, offers fresh insights.
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Chris FlintermanFaculty of Humanities
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Carlos Roos MuñozFaculty of Humanities
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Arash MohammadavvaliFaculty of Humanities
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Jorre The
Faculty of Science
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Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’
In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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against higher education cuts: ‘This government is turning its back on the world’
Over 20,000 students, lecturers, administrators, support staff and many others protested on 25 November against the plans to make billions of cuts to higher education. Students and staff from Leiden University also travelled to The Hague to voice their objections to the disastrous plans.
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Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Jan AbbinkAfrican Studies Centre
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Kristof GombeerFaculty of Law
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Roderick GeertsFaculty of Archaeology
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Bouke van der MeerFaculty of Archaeology
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Merlijn VeltmanFaculty of Archaeology