1,194 search results for “georg language and culture” in the Student website
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’
The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were introduced to the faculty and language studies. ‘I had no idea that Hebrew and Arabic were similar.’
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Renate DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Marion ElenbaasFaculty of Humanities
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Claire SmuldersICLON
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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Tijmen PronkFaculty of Humanities
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Ans de Rooij-van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Tony FosterFaculty of Humanities
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'
On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.
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How do our language rules come about?
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.
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Jiaxin SunFaculty of Humanities
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
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Katinka ZevenFaculty of Humanities
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Ton HarmsenFaculty of Humanities
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Erika RiccobonFaculty of Humanities
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Michaël PeyrotFaculty of Humanities
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Alcohol and party culture
Study support
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Manolis FragkiadakisFaculty of Humanities
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Lifeng Han -
Jenny DoetjesFaculty 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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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: Dissecting Latino power, language and culture
Lecture
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at the University. Some the students and workshop leaders reflect on the busy morning.
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Ae Ree NamFaculty of Humanities
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Thinley DemaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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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Restoring the reputation of the Javanese tradition of the Uttarakāṇḍa: ‘If you ignore one of the traditions, you ignore information about the
For almost a millennium, it was rewritten time and again: the Old Javanese literary prose work Uttarakāṇḍa. The tradition soon split into two major branches: a Javanese and a Balinese one. However, until now, scholarly editions have focused solely on the Balinese version. Unjustly so, argues PhD candidate…