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• LUCL Colloquium Event
• Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations Event
• Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' News - 19 December 2022

  Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.

• ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers News - 31 January 2023

  From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.

• Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language News - 18 December 2025

  Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.

• How Russia uses language as a weapon of war News - 23 January 2023

  According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.

• How do our language rules come about? News - 3 April 2025

  Many of the language rules we use today were formulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a dual track at the universities of Leiden and Brussels, PhD candidate Eline Lismont investigated why some rules became successful while other rules were quickly forgotten.

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  Xin Li PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.li@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272615

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  Jingtian Shi PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.shi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272968

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  Zoe Poirier Maruenda PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.poirier.maruenda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272216

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  Mo Gordon Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.s.gordon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271768

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  Rachelle Wenger PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.d.wenger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marjolein Hageman Skill Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.hageman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272190

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  Charlie Xu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.xu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278014

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  Elise Alberts PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.e.alberts@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Christina Eleftheriadi PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.eleftheriadi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Amir Zamani

• 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…

• Social media Humanities Guidelines and support

  Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.

• Web editorial team Humanities Website and web editorial team

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• Middle East Studies Lectures Event
• Programme accreditation Humanities Site visits and accreditation

  Degree programmes must be assessed and accredited once every six years to ensure they provide a high standard of education. You may be asked to speak to the assessment panel.

• Worlds shaped by words: A cross-linguistic investigation into the neural mechanisms of lexico-syntactic feature production Event - 17 December 2025

  PhD defence

• With kind regards: Convention, standards and breaking the rules in letter-writing Event
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  Willem Adelaar Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.f.h.adelaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Luisella Caon University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.d.caon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274117

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  Rahmatan Idul PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.idul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272657

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  Ton van Haaften Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.van.haaften@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sjoerd Lindenburg PhD candidate

  ICLON

  s.lindenburg@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278970

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  Margaretha Folmer guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.l.folmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272513

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  Mariana Sousa da Silva Martins PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.martins@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Dorie Nielen Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.a.nielen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bente De Graeve PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.w.de.graeve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274133

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  Xinyi Wen PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.wen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Meipan Yang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.yang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272594

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  Hana Nurul Hasanah PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.n.hasanah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Amanda Delgado Galvan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.delgado.galvan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zhenlin Chen PhD candidate / Contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.chen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272511

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  Adrian Stenton Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.j.stenton@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jurjen Donkers Study adviser

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.donkers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hamza Khwaja PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.o.khwaja@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278930

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  Ayub Ayub PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.ayub@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272331

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  Jueyu Hou PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.hou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272939

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  Wim Blokzijl Lecturer

  Faculty of Science

  w.j.blokzijl@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yaqian Wang PhD candidate / Contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.wang.72@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273096

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  Shehu Aliyu Waziri PhD Candidate/Contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.aliyu.waziri@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marc-Alexandre Beaulieu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.beaulieu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gregory McLean PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.l.mclean@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kristen De Joseph PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.h.de.joseph@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yosephin Apriastuti Rahayu PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.apriastuti.rahayu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727