957 search results for “african simon language” in the Student website
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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André LeliveldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…
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Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees
What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's in Russian and Eurasian Studies who regularly help the Ukrainian refugees. They act as the link between the refugees and aid workers at various reception…
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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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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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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'Au Liban', but 'en Iran': external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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Erasmus+ for Traineeships after Graduation
Bachelor, Master
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Minors
A minor allows you to develop your knowledge beyond the boundaries of your study programme, or to specialise further in your own field of study. You can follow a minor in Leiden and also in Delft or Rotterdam.
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’
A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World. ‘I am looking forward to promoting ethnolinguistic diversity and vitality.’
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Marion ElenbaasFaculty of Humanities
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Janneke GeursenICLON
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Dan DukeFaculty of Humanities
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Bradley Harvey Sr
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara de WitFaculty of Humanities
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Tanja HendriksFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Florien HollanderFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Sea-ing Africa: Research-Driven Internships (sponsored) in Port City Regions in Ghana and Morocco
In the academic year 2025-2026, the project 'Sea-ing Africa: Tracing Legacies and Engaging Future Promises of 'Big' Infrastructure Projects in Port City Regions in Ghana and Morocco' will be pleased to host students from all three tracks of the MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and…
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Yiwen Zou
Faculty of Humanities
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Roberta Schiralli
Faculty of Humanities
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René Wezel
Faculty of Humanities
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Mick Stam
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeeyoung SeoFaculty of Humanities
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Annabel MeesterFaculty of Humanities
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Florence Fabbricotti
Faculty of Humanities
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Lidy Bont
Faculty of Humanities
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
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Tracy Huang
Faculty of Humanities
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahmad Rifai
Leiden University Libraries
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities