1,914 search results for “arabic language and culture” in the Public website
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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Dynamic Testing and the Relation with School performance and Language difficulties.
What is the effect of a dynamic training in children’s inductive reasoning skills and how is it related to children’s school performances and language development.
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Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language
On the 24th of October, Nurenzia Yannuar successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Nurenzia on this achievement.
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Nivja de Jong
Faculty of Humanities
n.h.de.jong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2956
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Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000
If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?
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Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000
What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?
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psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Dissertation
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Roman Political Culture. Seven Studies of the Senate and City Councils of Italy from the First to the Sixth Century AD
This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies.
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Le tifinagh au Niger contemporain: Étude sur l’écriture indigène des Touaregs
In this dissertation a large corpus of letter signs and texts gathered during fieldwork in Niger, and to a lesser extent Mali and Burkina Faso is used to show the graphemic diversity of the traditional script of the Tuaregs, tifinagh, and to analyze the orthographic system.
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Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world history.
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Converting cultural heritage into usable data
How can we make the information in handwritten historical research reports accessible and searchable? Data scientists at Leiden University are working with other universities on a method that will improve access to cultural heritage.
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Microfluidic 3D cell culture for high throughput screening
There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.
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LLRC conference: Critical, ethical, and practical use of AI in the language classroom: opportunities and risks
Conference
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Empirical signatures of universality, hierarchy and clustering in culture
In this thesis,
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Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture
Carsten Stahn has just published Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture. The book is part of the OUP Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Series.
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Scheurrak SO1 in the Maritime-Cultural Landscape
This project combines and reconsiders all the available evidence of the Scheurrak SO1, and use new archival databases and modern archaeological techniques to shed new light on the material culture of the Baltic grain trade and the Holland shipbuilding industry at the turn of the sixteenth century.
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Object shift in the Scandinavian languages: syntax, information structure, and intonation
This thesis discusses the constructions relevant to Object Shift from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from all the Scandinavian languages.
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Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives
How did the life course, with all its biological, social and cultural aspects, influence the lives, writings, and art of the inhabitants of early medieval England?
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Cultural Confluence in Organizational Change: A Portuguese Venture in Angola
This book explores intercultural management challenges in sub-Saharan Africa through a case study of Vasco Silva, a Portuguese businessman in Luanda, Angola.
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European/Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche’s Philosophy
Nietzsche says
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Cultural interaction between Assyria and the northern Zagros
Dlshad Marf defended his thesis on 4 July 2016
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Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous
This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.
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The empathic mind in children and adolescents with Specific Language Impairments (SLI)
The ‘empathic mind’ in children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI); what can children with SLI understand of other people’s minds and emotions?
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Summer School Books and Culture 2020: The Plantin Press and the Religious Book (Antwerp, 29 June - 3 July 2020)
Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.
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Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)
In the master’s programme Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present at Leiden University you will be at the forefront of a new approach to understand how national politics and identities in Europe are conceived.
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New publication: Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: The Antique as Innovation
This book by Dirk Jacob Jansen traces the career of Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515-Vienna 1588), examining his role at court in Vienna, where he served as Imperial architect and antiquary. Strada’s career was unusually wide in scope and cosmopolitan in outlook even for a Renaissance artist.
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Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE)
How are night spaces imagined, produced, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe? This research project considers this question in eight European cities: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cork, Galway, Lisbon, London, Rotterdam. Authorities have historically wrestled with the issue of night-time…
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The Postal Imagination: Returning Mail in Contemporary Culture
How to understand the simultaneously dis- and reappearance of letters in contemporary culture, and how does this Neo-Epistolarity relate to media-technological change?
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Cultures of Collecting: The Leiden Anatomical Collections in Context
The general aim of the project is a description and analysis of the Leiden anatomical collections from a humanities perspective. The project investigates how historical and cultural practices and concerns have shaped anatomical preparations and how exhibitions of the anatomical body have informed cultural…
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Inspirational practices in cultural heritage management: fostering social responsibility
This catalogue is the result of the EU_CUL project (2018-2021), which explores the use of cultural heritage in Europe for fostering academic teaching and social responsibility in higher education.
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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From closed museum spaces to inclusive cultural meeting points
As museums face more scrutiny and are being demanded to decolonize, there are opportunities for Dominican museums to adopt a critical perspective and turn their collections and exhibitions into connections to our cultural past, present, and future.
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Guus Kroonen
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.kroonen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1768
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Alwin Kloekhorst
Faculty of Humanities
a.kloekhorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7977
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History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present
Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Bullying Culture as a Form of Negative Solidarity
What is the role of technology and cyberculture in Korean social structures and in the potential formation of a new collective subjectivity? How do we reorient disoriented souls?
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Cultural Associative Landscape in Dominican Republic and Cuba
The research aims to understand how did Cuban and Dominican landscape encapsulate historical conceptual transformations about human –nature spiritual interaction after the Spanish conquest? More specifically, what are the present day cultural associations with Cuban and Dominican natural landscape?…
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Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present
Politics, Culture and National Identities investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers
The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros will enable the researchers to further expand their scientific research.
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Information activities
Information activities MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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Morphogenesis and heterogeneity in liquid-grown streptomyces cultures
The filamentous bacteria Streptomyces are widespread inhabitants of terrestrial soils.
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese
This project employs a systematic experimental approach to examine the interaction of these two hitherto independent lines of research (tone sandhi and focus realization) in six dialects of Chinese, which lie on a continuum between dialects with dense tonal distributions and sparser distributions. In…
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Highly sensitive analysis using 3D cell culture model
A research goal for ABS is to develop miniaturized platforms for research in (stem)cell, in-vitro systems and application in clinical and preventive research. Combined with the high throughput, this development will make it possible to study the dynamics of pathogenesis in human and cellular models…
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Dialogue Among Cultures and Disciplines: Past, Present, and Future
Dialogue is a multi-dimensional communication mechanism whose processes can only be examined by means of an interdisciplinary approach.
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Why Leiden University?
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University is known for its student-centred teaching and world-leading faculty.
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Language variation at home and abroad: the case of P'urhepecha in Mexico and its US diaspora
By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.
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René van Walsem
Faculty of Humanities
r.van.walsem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The domestic implements of the Single Grave Culture: the case of the Noord-Holland province
The use-wear analysis of domestic implements provided new insights of the Single Grave Culture population in the Netherlands.