1,249 search results for “language cultural and worldviews” in the Staff website
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Marjolein LansingICLON
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University launches Vision on Student Well-Being: ‘An open culture where we look out for one another’
How can we work together to create a safe study and learning environment and offer students the support that they need? The Vision on Student Well-Being outlines the University’s plans to promote student well-being in the coming years.
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Meet the members of the Cultural Anthropology OLC 2021-2022
Benjamín Maldonado, Orestes Kyrgiakis, Roos Capel and Iskra Cvitković are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). The board advises the Executive Board and the Faculty Board about educational matters, such as the determination of the Course and Examination Regulations and the evaluation…
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Leila DemarestSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.
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Open Mic: Pitch Your Research in Relation to Cultural Heritage
Lecture, Open Mic
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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The dynamics of contact-induced change and language shift
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Dutch International Cultural Policy
Site visit
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Towards better L1-oral language education: Perspectives on good quality oral language teaching and the role of feedback
PhD defence
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Shipwrecks and Cultural Diplomacy
Lecture
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Myra ArendsFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.
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Mirae Kim on translation issues at K-pop
K-pop is wildly popular. Fans all over the world sing along to the Korean songs, often without understanding exactly what the lyrics mean. University lecturer Mirae Kim explains why these songs are so difficult to translate in the video series "The World of Korean Wave'.
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance
Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. This project will address a significant knowledge gap on the potentials and pitfalls of climate governance, with an initial…
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Maikel KuijpersFaculty of Archaeology
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Erik DanenFaculty of Science
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Flora Smit on the relationship between K-pop idols and their fans
Fans of the Korean music movement K-pop go through hell for their idols. In return, artists care deeply about their fans: they even get to decide their hair color. In the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', PhD candidate Flora Smit takes a closer look at this relationship.
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
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Ton van HaaftenFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Mubarika NugraheniFaculty of Humanities
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Award for a method that can create even better algorithms
She develops algorithms that outperform leading optimization techniques and can be applied in many fields. For this work, Niki van Stein and her team have won the GECCO Humies Award. ‘With our method, we can create and refine algorithms for a wide range of applications—algorithms that are better than…
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Tonal reflexes of topic and focus in Heiban languages
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Colours and symbols to support dyslexic students
In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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self-evaluation of the Institute of Psychology: ‘The quality of the academic culture is more important’
Better supervision of PhD candidates, clear guidelines on career paths and an MRI scanner that can be accessed by all researchers: these are the recommendations from the new self-evaluation. Colleagues say: ‘This forces us as an institute to formulate our mission and vision more precisely.’
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Janine PrinsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah BozuwaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah SmithSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Wiebe RuijtenbergFaculty of Law