902 search results for “african sien language” in the Staff website
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Iris KoleAdministration and Central Services
j.n.kole@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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The aorist system of Phrygian
Lecture
- European Days of Languages
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
mdijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
vanijzen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272649
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VSBfonds Beurs
Bachelor, Master
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Joseph Fiifi Barimah-Begyina Fosu-AnkrahAfrika-Studiecentrum
j.fosu-ankrah@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273026
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André LeliveldAfrika-Studiecentrum
a.h.m.leliveld@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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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 Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
Conference, Workshop
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272188
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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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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Sasha LubotskyFaculty of Humanities
a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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Marion ElenbaasFaculty of Humanities
m.b.elenbaas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272957
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Janneke GeursenICLON
j.w.geursen@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277164
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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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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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Erasmus+ for Traineeships after Graduation
Bachelor, Master
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Asbestos removal operation: final stage
The final stage of the asbestos removal operation in wing B will commence at the same time as the building work on the library. Neither of these operations will affect the operational management of the Faculty.
- Archaeological Forum
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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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Contested Mobility: Free African Americans and the Law in the U.S. South, 1790-1830s
PhD defence
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Anika AltafAfrika-Studiecentrum
a.altaf@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273376
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
l.w.oudenhuijsen@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’
A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World. ‘I am looking forward to promoting ethnolinguistic diversity and vitality.’
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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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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272103
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Florence Fabbricotti
Faculty of Humanities
f.f.fabbricotti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jeeyoung SeoFaculty of Humanities
j.seo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities
r.c.m.versluis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
n.d.gofman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities
z.mu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Annabel MeesterFaculty of Humanities
a.meester@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
l.b.czort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727