1,199 search results for “geert language and culture” in the Staff website
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Esther de VrindICLON
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient Greek spelling mistakes shed new light on language development
If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean. University lecturer Joanne Stolk has been awarded an ERC grant to explore the kinds of spelling mistakes that were made in these scripts. And, more importantly, what improvements…
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Evert Jan van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Ali ShobeiriFaculty of Humanities
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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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Graduation ceremony bachelor programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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Natasja DelbarFaculty of Humanities
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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Anouschka van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language
Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Alette VonkFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Arnout KoornneefFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’
As Professor of African Linguistics, Nancy Kula increases our knowledge of variation across languages. Her inaugural lecture is on Monday 23 March.
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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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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Mind tools, language and the origins of AI
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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How AI helps map sign languages
Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and annotation. Manolis Fragkiadakis wrote his PhD thesis on this.
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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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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics Maarten Mous explains the importance of hearing your language at school.
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Graduation ceremony master and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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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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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Bridging Wor(l)ds: Future-proofing the Languages and Cultures Sector in Dutch Higher Education
Conference
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Carlos Roos MuñozFaculty of Humanities