604 search results for “some language” in the Staff website
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum
From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them more if they receive information that is specially tailored to young visitors? Join psychologist Francesco Walker at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and see…
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Religious Studies students combat loneliness: ‘Simply acknowledging the complexity helps’
Last semester, bachelor’s students in Religious Studies spent a lot of time in community centres in Leiden. The reason: field research into loneliness in the city.
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Tibetan and Mongol history through the use of sub-provincial Chinese language archival sources
Lecture, China Seminar
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Gestures to signs around the world
Conference, Workshop
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant
Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on language.
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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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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
w.f.h.adelaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272065
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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272103
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
b.k.ieven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271308
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Evelien UrbanusFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
e.l.urbanus@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
w.van.anrooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Janna HouwenFaculty of Humanities
j.j.m.houwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272195
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Sjoerd LindenburgICLON
s.lindenburg@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278970
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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
s.m.nauta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276370
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Yunnan YeFaculty of Humanities
y.ye@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mike Preussm.preuss@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Daniëlle van der Schaaf
Faculty of Humanities
d.van.der.schaaf@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
g.warnar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272158
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
s.petrollino@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273069
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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
t.w.sanders@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275460
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Luisella CaonFaculty of Humanities
l.m.d.caon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274117
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Visuality of Deaf People in Contemporary Times
Lecture
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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OSCoffee: Do we need some kind of national observatory for consultation projects?
Lecture
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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’
Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past decade or so. University lecturer Vincent Chang tells us more about this far-reaching development.
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world
Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those who don’t like uncertainty. Researchers are now discovering that this aversion affects how we understand the world.
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
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Conference: The Poetics of Olfaction, 1500–1800
Conference
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Between deference and destitution: Requesting relief in Scottish pauper letters, 1750-1910
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
e.minnaard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272358
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From Azerbaijani to Swedish: ‘Multilingualism improves your understanding of others’
September 26 is the European Day of Languages. There are 24 official languages in Europe but some 200 languages in total are spoken on our continent. What good are all these different languages? And should we all learn Azerbaijani or Swedish? We asked Lisa Cheng, Professor of General Linguistics.
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments
Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.
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Formants are better predictors of vowel markedness than features
Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anna DlabacovaFaculty of Humanities
a.dlabacova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272119