499 search results for “frissen linguistics” in the Student website
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English Department turns 75: English Studies alive and kicking in Leiden
At the end of May, the Leiden English Language and Culture Programme, formerly known as the Department of English Language and Literature, celebrated its 75th anniversary (starting from the appointment of the first professor of English Studies). Over 220 alumni, staff present and past, and students…
- Call for pitches: run a workshop at our Una Europa Student Meet-up
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Call to Creative Students: Design a Name and Logo for Our Humanities Labs!
Organisation
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Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way
Two Leiden University science communication projects have been awarded a WECOM grant through the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). One project is a study of the history of the deaf community in the Netherlands and the other is of a condition that causes people to lose their way.
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?'
Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently against people with a gender expression that does not match their birth sex. Why does this evoke such resistance? We asked Professor by special appointment…
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‘Together, we have to ensure that the faculty is a respectful and safe environment’
Student initiative COOP is committed to a respectful and safe academic environment. Here is a report of the activities over the past few months.
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Five tips against loneliness from student adviser Roos ter Elst
Your student days are the best time of your life, full of parties and friendships for life. Right? Well, not always. Especially at the beginning of your studies, chances are you will feel alone from time to time, but even after that, it is normal to have to get used to this big change and feel lonely…
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In extremis: five extremes in 450 years of Leiden research
By looking at what is different, researchers often discover the special, the unusual. And that has already brought a wealth of highlights – also in Leiden.
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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From Dialectology to Dialectometry 2025
Weekly Workshop
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Liveblog: Leiden University strikes against government cuts
Staff from Leiden University are starting the Dutch universities’ staggered strike against the government cuts on 10 March. Follow the strike in this liveblog.
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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Speed dating on Master’s Open Day: ‘What can you do with that master’s degree?’
Almost 3,500 visitors came to Master’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague.
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LIFF Programmer Bob de Brabandere: ‘My academic background enables me to clearly identify the appropriate audience for a film’
Bob de Brabandere discovered his deep passion for cinema through a minor in Film and Theatre Studies. He currently serves as Assistant Manager at Bioscopen Leiden and as a programmer for the Leiden International Film Festival, which commences on 9 October.
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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL
With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden.
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme. The grant will enable them and their project teams to carry out their own teaching innovation project.
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Students, staff and alumni to share the stage at Leiden Canal Concert
Music lovers are welcome at this free open-air concert celebrating 450 years of Leiden University, on Sunday 6 July. This special jubilee edition of the Rapenburg Canal Concert will feature a unique orchestra made up of our students, staff and alumni, performing on a floating stage.
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
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Old signs & current signs in LSF (French Sign Language)
Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People
- Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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The Rise and Fall of the Limburgish tone
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Nested garden-path sentences and the syntax-prosody interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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4th Hybrid Cushitic Conference
Conference
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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In the Making #11: Whose creativity? Explorations of interspecies being and making
Arts and culture
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Becoming an inclusive university
Conference, D&I Event