2,026 search results for “language and culture of the world” in the Student website
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Keiko YoshiokaFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Muslim Futures Festival
Arts and culture, Festival
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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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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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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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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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Speaking Korean contest: ‘Actually, I don't dare to do this at all’
In a well-filled Telders Auditorium, university learners of Korean competed with each other to see who speaks Korean the best.
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The Walikutuban ritual: from lost heritage to political activism
Sometimes fascination can lead to in-depth research. Such is the case with Wahyu Widodo, who came across the Islamic Walikutuban ritual in Java in 2019, on which he subsequently wrote his PhD dissertation. Widodo: ‘Besides community, it also breeds political loyalty’
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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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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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Lustrum: 75 years English Language and Culture programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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BA in Italian Language and Culture to continue
Leiden University will continue to offer its BA in Italian Language and Culture. The Board of the Faculty of Humanities has reversed its decision to stop admitting new students as of the 2026/2027 academic year.
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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.’