884 search results for “comparative indo-european linguistics” in the Staff website
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and foreign students work together remotely on a project that links local issues to an international perspective.
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere: An example from the deaf people of Bissau
PhD defence
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Language Policy and Planning of Amazigh Languages in Morocco
PhD defence
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Humanities PhD Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Generics and stereotypes in discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Conference
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
- Language and the human past
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Old signs & current signs in LSF (French Sign Language)
Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People
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Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: Dissecting Latino power, language and culture
Lecture
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
- Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Leiden Medievalists Blog meet-up
Lecture
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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researchers will be able to devote themselves to their PhD research. Let’s meet these new PhD candidates!
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Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.
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Allocation of the work areas of the Humanities Campus: Who goes where?
It was announced in December that a new draft urban development plan for the Humanities Campus is now ready. In drawing up this plan for the various buildings, outdoor space and traffic routes on campus, the facilities and layout of the buildings themselves were, of course, also considered. Discussions…
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’
From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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Developing tailored information for institutes on research grants
Sieger van den Aardweg is Knowledge Base Manager for the Grant Development Team at the Strategy and Academic Affairs Directorate, part of Administration and Central Services. He is working within the Leiden Research Support programme on tailored information provision, in collaboration with several institutes.…
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Timo Kos on the cuts and elections: ‘We’re fighting for the future of our university’
The university may seem a bit subdued in the run-up to the Dutch elections on 29 October. The media has barely mentioned education as an election issue, but behind the scenes the university is lobbying hard, says acting President of the Executive Board, Timo Kos. ‘We’re fighting for the future of our…
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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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In memoriam: Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026)
On February 10, 2026, emeritus Professor Dr. Takamitsu Muraoka (1938–2026) passed away, one day after celebrating his 88th birthday. From 1991 until his retirement in 2003, he held the chair of Hebrew Language and Culture, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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The Rise and Fall of the Limburgish tone
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Convenience and community: How Armenians entered and settled in Venice and Amsterdam, 1650-1730
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Webinar: Ethical Review of Student Research – Best-practices and future development
Webinar
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PhD Career Event: Finding your career inside or outside academia
Career development
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Sociolinguistics Circle 2025
Conference
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Celebrating 40 Years of the Latin American Studies Program at Leiden
Alumni event, Lustrum
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The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production and Comprehension
PhD defence
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African methodologies in academic research
Lecture
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar