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• Lend me your ears: the grammar of (un)transferable possession Research project

  The main aim of this project is to investigate the various ways in which language categorizes possession, how these are morphosyntactically encoded across and within languages, and how this distinction should be represented in a model of the language faculty.

• Voces del Dzaha Dzavui (mixteco clásico) Research output

  Análisis y Conversión del Vocabulario de fray Francisco de Alvarado (1593)

• Stephan Raaijmakers: 'Humans and systems have to learn to understand each other better' The future of AI is human

  You can ask virtual assistant Siri about the weather, but you can’t have a real conversation with it yet. You can’t refer to anything that’s been said before, or ask the system why it says what it says. Stephan Raaijmakers, Professor by Special Appointment from TNO, hopes to change this.

• Literary Studies (MA)

  The MA Literary Studies at Leiden University offers you a specialised qualification in one of four languages and cultures, or a comparative perspective on literature and society. You can tailor your degree to match your interests and ambitions, with options to combine majors, take electives across specialisations,…

• Skeleton research provides insight into culture of Caribbean Indians News - 21 January 2016

  Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh studies how bodies decompose. This helps with the reconstruction of changes in the burial rituals of Caribbean Indians.

• Image and Identity in Chinese Historic Houses Research project

  How and to what extent the historic house (re-)constructs identity through image-making in China.

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  Wouter van Beek

  African Studies Centre

• The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism Research output

  This book provides an overview of critical scholarly reflections on the history of Dutch slavery and colonization, as well as how this translates into critical cultural practices.

• Filtering feminisms: Emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram Research output

  Based on interviews with feminist Instagram users, this article studies emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram through the concept of filtering.

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  Diederik Smit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History Research output

  As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.

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  Sam de Ruiter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Fenno Noij PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Ang Li PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Niels van der Salm Skill Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ruurd Halbertsma Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hylke Hettema PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Menno Fitski PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Yu Ai PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marija Seric External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sarah Badwy PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Finn Lindo-Dunn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anna Ljung Grüner-Hegge PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Femke Fakkeldij PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Chisato Makishima PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

• The value of languages (to their users and communities) Event - 5 June 2024

  Conference

• Music Cognition Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 1:

• research project: Globalisation, materiality and the transference of cultures News - 27 June 2012

  The LGI is pleased to annouce that seed money has been granted to Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology), Prof. Caroline van Eck (Art History) and Prof. Pieter ter Keurs (Anthropology) for their research on Globalisation, materiality and the transference of cultures.

• Visualizing Cryptographic Networks of Spies, Diplomats and Scientists, 1603-1701 Research project

• About Language Learning Resource Center

  Leiden University has a strong tradition in language teaching, in various settings: for instance in the BA and MA language and culture programmes, area studies programmes, international studies, minors and electives. Currently, 20 different languages are taught throughout different institutes and pr…

• Sahin Sau Research output

  Curso de lengua mixteca (variante de Ñuu Ndeya)

• Human Evolution

  This multidisciplinary minor addresses the fascinating question how we, modern humans, got to be the way we are. Who were our ancestors? How does our morphology, genetic makeup, brain and behaviour relate to that of other species? How does our evolutionary past affect our susceptibility to diseases?…

• Descriptive Linguistics

  Documenting and describing languages of the world.

• Vulnerable yet resilient: representations of migrant workers in contemporary Chinese prose Research output

  On Tuesday 3 December 2024 Shuang Liu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

• Meet our staff Italian Literature and Culture (MA)

• Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism Research output

  Despite the fact that transnational movement and intercultural encounter are the signs of our present time, questions of belonging and legitimation of citizenship in most West-European countries still largely depend on monolingual norms and the problematic conflation of the idea of a national language…

• Understanding Medieval Latin with the Help of Middle Dutch Research output

  Magistri Symonis (?) Questiones secunde partis Doctrinalis Alexandri de Villa Dei First Critical Edition from the Manuscript with Introduction, Appendices and Indexes

• Staff Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

• Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity Research output

  Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins.

• Leiden Jewish Studies Association Thesis Prize Leiden Jewish Studies Network

  The Leiden Jewish Studies Association awarded the inaugural “Best Thesis in Jewish Studies” in December 2023.

• Leiden University scientists - Working at Leiden University Meet Leiden University employees

  Nobody is better qualified to tell you what it is like to work at Leiden University than the employees themselves. Watch the videos and meet your future colleagues. They will be happy to share their experiences with you.

• Imagology in the Arubian Literature Research project

  Neo-Baroque construction and deconstruction of the concepts of paradise in fiction.

• Chordal accompanimental practices on viol from intabulation to realisation Research project

  Harry’s research work looks at the techniques and influence of chordal and polyphonic accompaniment on viola da gamba in the sixteenth century.

• The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics Research output

  Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study.

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• Blog Post | Heritage diplomacy: The case of the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund News - 5 December 2022

  Heritage protection is increasingly understood by nations and other actors as playing a critical intersectoral role in supporting wider development and diplomacy outcomes through soft power and cultural relations.

• Professional Users’ Perspectives on Metaphors in Machine Translation Research project

  This PhD project investigates how literary translators and journalists react and respond to machine-translated metaphors and what the repercussions for professional practice are.