1,108 search results for “african simon language” in the Staff website
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Ian ShenFaculty of Science
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Pop/Jazz Choir
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
- European Days of Languages
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Janine UbinkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Shuo HuangFaculty of Science
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Erwan Hochart
Faculty of Science
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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Iris KoleFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2024: the nominees
The thesis is a major milestone for master students graduating in Political Science. It demonstrates their ability to conduct research independently and to provide a thorough, objective and sound analysis. That requires instruction, discussion, thinking and hard work. Lots of it. In some cases this…
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VSBfonds Beurs
Bachelor, Master
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Joseph Fiifi Barimah-Begyina Fosu-Ankrah
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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André LeliveldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global South
Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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The Values of Language(s) in the Ancient World
Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII
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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…
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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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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments
Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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'Au Liban', but 'en Iran': external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
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Erasmus+ for Traineeships after Graduation
Bachelor, Master