1,101 search results for “culture heritage” in the Student website
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Book Launch: Explorations in Islamic Archaeology
Book Launch
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Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans
Lecture
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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International Translation Day 2024
Lecture, Discussion
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Asia Academy #04: The Korean Wave
Lecture
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Caribbean Ties. Connected people, then and now
Exhibition
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Get to know the new Faculty Council of Archaeology
Organisation
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Mayke KaagAfrican Studies Centre
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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Ruben RosFaculty of Humanities
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S. ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Ariëlle ReitsemaFaculty of Humanities
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Analysis of clustering algorithms and performance evaluation metrics applied to samples of the Tell El-Yahudiya ware typology
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
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Thesis and papers
When writing a thesis or paper you must make good use of the insights you have gained during your lectures and studies so far. You should also refer to relevant literature and carry out your own research on the topic.
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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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India - Pakistan: Een grensconflict met diepe wortels
Lecture, Leids Actualiteitencollege
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy
Lecture
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Four famous alumni introduce their favourite films at Leiden International Film Festival
From a powerful documentary to a heartwarming classic: four Leiden alumni have chosen their favourite films and will introduce them at Leiden International Film Festival.
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Postdoc Dita Auzina investigates relationship between appearance of monumentality and disruptive environmental events
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dita Auzina, originally from Latvia, works as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds. ‘I have joined the project as a landscape archaeologist, but I also run my own fieldwork in Nicaragua.’
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Lights out, stars on: Daan Roosegaarde on Seeing Stars Leiden
‘What if we switch off all the lights one evening? That idea crossed my mind from time to time. And when I mentioned it to a taxi driver one day, he said: “Oh, you mean: lights out, stars on!” That’s not completely true, of course, because the stars are always on, but his phrase summed up the idea n…
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Archaeology students Rosa Seepma and Aida Tadesse receive NVFA incentive prize for Allard Pierson Museum internship.
Research Master’s students in Archaeology Rosa Seepma and Aida Tadesse received an Incentive Prize from the Dutch Association for Physical Anthropology (NVFA). They were awarded this honor for their ongoing study on the human osteology collection at the Allard Pierson Museum.
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Throwback to the panel discussion about the future of archaeology
As part of the celebrations around the 25th birthday of the Faculty of Archaeology, a panel discussion on the future of archaeology was organised on December 13th. For this discussion an international panel of scholars was invited to give their perspective and enter into conversation with our Faculty…
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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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International Studies students receive their diploma
On 1 September 2023, 280 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden: the UNESCO world heritage site, where the university was originally founded in 1575. A large audience of about 700 people consisting…
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Environmental Humanities connects disciplines as well as people: ‘We need integration’
By means of a presentation, a panel discussion, and activities in the fresh air, the event themed ‘Environmental Humanities’, organised by the Honours College Humanities, managed to unite both people and disciplines. ‘There is a gap between humanities and sciences, but they are more alike than you might…
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what researchers, artists and the residents of Leiden are going to investigate during Seeing Stars Leiden on 25 September. ‘Leiden is the ideal place for…