482 search results for “classical languages” in the Staff website
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Byvanck Professor Caroline Vout wins London Hellenic Prize for 2022 book
This year's London Hellenic Prize is awarded to Caroline Vout for her excellent study of representations of the human body in sculpture, Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body.
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The Classical Zaydi Imamate (1200-1600) and its Legacy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
f.w.a.korsten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2196
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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 grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
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Six top rated programmes at humanities
The bachelor programmes German Language and Culture, Classics, Dutch Language and Culture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious studies and Linguistics have received the predicate top rated programme from the Keuzegids.
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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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Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she can use as she wishes to explore new avenues in basic scientific research.
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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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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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‘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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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
p.liebregts@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2160
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
o.van.marion@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2128
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
f.k.ameka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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More than 100 objects described on Things That Talk: ‘It’s super cool to be a part of this’
On Things That Talk, a website founded and developed by Fresco Sam-Sin, students and researchers describe objects from today and from long ago. By now, more than a hundred objects have been covered. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij and Frank van den Boom contributed to the content.
- Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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In Memoriam: Prof.dr. Henk Bodewitz (1939-2022)
On August 18, 2022, Henk Bodewitz, distinguished Indologist and emeritus professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University, passed away in his hometown of Utrecht.
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Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene
The prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize is annually awarded to the five best dissertations published in the year before in the fields of Humanities, Social sciences and Law. During a festive ceremony in Utrecht Lennart Kruijer received the award from the hands of professor Bas ter Haar…
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2439
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Rik van Gijn
Faculty of Humanities
e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2413
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Seminar: Power, Ideas, and International Orders: Contrasting the Classical Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Group for the best scholarly publication in the field of Italy Studies in Dutch or Flemish academia.
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
- Language and the human past
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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
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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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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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp'
Lecture
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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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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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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Research schools
Many PhD candidates, as well as research master students at the Faculty of Humanities, are members of a research school related to their area of expertise. Research schools aim at the collaboration of researchers from different faculties in the same university (interfaculty schools) or in different…
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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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Combining classic and novel tools in the study of Historical Collections of Chinese Materia Medica in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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Egidius Smeets
Science
e.w.f.smeets@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tom van der Reep
Science
reep@physics.leidenuniv.nl | +31 000 5896
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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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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop