331 search results for “language culturele and worldviews” in the Student website
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Course, summer school
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Save the Date: Day of Languages and Cultures
Festival
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55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Azeb AmhaAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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New podcast on one of Europe's oldest Muslim communities
For over six centuries, the Tatars have been part of Poland’s social and cultural fabric. In this 8-episode series, released weekly, professor Maurits Berger and assistant professor Ewa Górska explore how this Muslim minority has maintained its identity across generations, how Islam is practiced in…
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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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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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Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change
Conference
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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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Useful links for language support
At the Writing Lab we will help you in all stages of the academic writing process, whether you would like help with planning or structuring your text, for example. We do not check grammar and spelling, however. For those who would like help in these areas, we here provide several useful links. We have…
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Anneke WurthICLON
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Ans de Rooij-van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting WangFaculty of Humanities
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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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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’
A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Manolis FragkiadakisFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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Lifeng Han -
Evgenia MouresiotiFaculty of Humanities
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Religious Studies students combat loneliness: ‘Simply acknowledging the complexity helps’
Last semester, bachelor’s students in Religious Studies spent a lot of time in community centres in Leiden. The reason: field research into loneliness in the city.
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Ae Ree NamFaculty 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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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Abhishek AvtansFaculty of Humanities
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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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Stan van der BurghtFaculty of Humanities
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Deniz TatFaculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
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not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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The spread of Sino-Tibetan languages, agriculture and weaving in East Asia
Lecture
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Olga NozdrachevaFaculty of Humanities
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Adrien DadoneFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie