483 search results for “english language” in the Staff website
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
s.a.polak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2142
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CSC Joint PhD programme on Artifical Intelligence and Bioscience between Leiden University and Xi’an Jiatong University
PhD
- Have your say on the quality of our teaching (in English)
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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Children’s Rights Scholarship 2
Master
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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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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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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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A Tale in Two Tongues: Storytelling in Filipino and English
Arts and culture, A Tale in Two Tongues: The added value of multilingualism
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LLRC Multilingualism in the Language Classroom Roundtable
Debate, Roundtable LLRC Event
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Young Interfaculty Lunch on Inclusive language
Lecture
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words
Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the development of word production in toddlers.
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Medievalisms on the 19th-century English Stage
PhD defence
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Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme
PhD defence
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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Tijmen Baarda
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
t.c.baarda@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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New in The Hague: minor Business Administration
As of academic year 2021-2022 Leiden University is offering a minor Business Administration in The Hague. What is this minor and what can you achieve with it?
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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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Tessa Kelder is the new Head of Communications and Marketing
As of February 1, Tessa Kelder is the new Head of Communications and Marketing of the Faculty 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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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Information on pensions: new ABP presentations (in Dutch)
Human resources
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Information on pensions: ABP presentations for staff (in Dutch)
Human resources
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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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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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Pitfalls for Advanced Writers of Academic English & Word Order (Graduate School FSW)
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Exhibition of sound installation 'Bird language' by Helena Nikonole
Exhibition, Exhibition
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Disinformation and the law: lecture by Michael Klos on 30 June
Research
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Evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants takes news outlets by storm
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal. The breakthrough takes…
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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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Turning the tide from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality
Inaugural lecture
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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René Cassin Thesis Prize in Human Rights for Aleydis Nissen
Aleydis Nissen was awarded the René Cassin Thesis Prize 2021. The René Cassin Foundation - International Institute of Human Rights organises the competition. This Prize is awarded to the best PhD theses on human rights.
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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PhD places
PhD candidates come in all shapes and sizes, from those with an appointment at the University to dual PhDs who have a job outside the University. Here we explain which PhD places we have at Leiden University, so you can quickly see which type suits you.
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NL Scholarship - Incoming students
Bachelor