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• Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language News - 18 December 2025

  Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.

• Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions Event - 27 March 2026

  Lecture, This Time for Africa! series

• How do our language rules come about? News - 3 April 2025

  Many of the language rules we use today were formulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a dual track at the universities of Leiden and Brussels, PhD candidate Eline Lismont investigated why some rules became successful while other rules were quickly forgotten.

• Middle East Studies Lectures Event
• Tanja Hendriks awarded Veni News - 17 July 2025

  The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. With this grant, Hendriks will be able to develop the research project 'Taking a Risk on Disasters: speculative humanitarianism amidst a changing…

• Internships and research in the Netherlands Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

  How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?

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  Xin Li PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jingtian Shi PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Charlie Xu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Elise Alberts PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Christina Eleftheriadi PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

• Peace Movements: A Global History Event - 24 March 2027

  Conference

• CRG Seminar: The Economic Community of West African States at fifty: Edward Blyden and the road towards a people centered regional body Event - 19 November 2025

  Lecture

• entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa Event - 20 November 2025

  Conference, 2-day Workshop

• colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa Event - 17 April 2026

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

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  Ivan Dunduro PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Emmanuel Ogwuche Okpe PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Carla Cisternas Guasch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nadia Rojas PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nestor Marin Bravo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mariana Gaba PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Felipe Cousiño PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joaquin Fernandez Abara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Cristian Saavedra Bastía PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alliance Mango Kubota PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Theresa St John PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Daphne Engel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrea Bravo Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia
• Uhlenbeck scholarship programme for mandatory study abroad Scholarship

  Master

• Programme Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (MA)

  When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

• Collaboration with other universities Classics (research) (MA)

  Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus University Rotterdam have worked together for many years on numerous aspects of teaching, research and valorisation. In 2012 this collaboration was formalised in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities strategic alliance.

• How Syntactic Structure and Classifier Congruency Shape Mandarin Sentence Production: Behavioural and ERP Insights Event - 13 May 2026

  Lecture, CHiLL series

• How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia? News - 15 July 2024

  Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…

• Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’ News - 19 May 2025

  Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.

• Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden News - 15 September 2022

  A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ottow, president of Leiden University’s Executive Board, described the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) on its 75th anniversary celebration on 8 September…

• Welcome to Leiden University Linguistics (BA)

  Welcome to Leiden University

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  Willem Adelaar Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sjoerd Lindenburg PhD candidate

  ICLON

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  Mariana Sousa da Silva Martins PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Dorie Nielen Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bente De Graeve PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hana Nurul Hasanah PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amanda Delgado Galvan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities