630 search results for “indo-european languages” in the Public website
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Ἀργεϊφόντης: Etymology, Meaning and Myth
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Revisiting the vocalism of the Iranian loanwords in Hungarian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
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Graeco-Aryan’ between myth and method
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Thijs Porck participates in the SELIM conference in Granada, Spain
From 17 to 19 September, the University of Granada organized the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM).
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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies
Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much in digital conversations as in real life. But this doesn’t mean we should skip in-person meetings altogether, says researcher Fabiola Diana.
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A ruki mistake? From aporia to apriorism
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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Kusundic, a possible linguistic substrate in the Himalayas
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
Conference, Workshop
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The Oegstgeest bowl and the bones of a giant king mentioned in Beowulf
Recently, archeologists of Leiden University made an excavation in Oegstgeest, where they found a unique silver bowl from the first half of the seventh century as well as imported pottery and winebarrels. Thijs Porck, lecturer in Old English language and culture at Leiden University, places the Oegstgeest…
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‘Indonesian archives are a goldmine for historians’
It's a race against time for Charles Jeurgens, Leiden Professor in Archival Studies. He is investigating how the colonial authorities created the archives in the National Archive in Jakarta. ‘The acidic paper deteriorates rapidly in this hot and humid climate.’
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Delve into Sanskrit or Amsterdam Pride
It's the middle of summer and the lecture halls are full. Students from all parts of the world have come to Leiden and The Hague for a summer school, on subjects varying from linguistics to international criminal law and from physics to biopharmaceutical sciences. Lecturers and students talk about what…
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Multicultural structure at the satrapal centre Daskyleion in North-western Anatolia
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Equine coat colors in Indo-Iranian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Proto-Indo-European Loanwords in Proto-Kartvelian: A Reconsideration
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Sociolinguistic Features in Vedic Sanskrit: Women’s Speech in Seduction and Curse Charms of the Atharvaveda
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Recent runic finds, mostly from the earliest runic period AD 0-500
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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stakes exams tell us about assessment cultures? The case of the new Language arts exam in Norway
Lecture
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Conceptual Metaphors and Etymology: the case of Homeric Greek κερτομέω ‘to mock’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Voicing the colony
This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…
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1200 North Korean posters in one database
Korea specialist Koen De Ceuster has combined 1200 posters from North Korea in one database. He believes the posters are extremely valuable for researchers who want to make a more in-depth study of this closed country. The database will be launched on 15 June in Leiden.
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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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Gerda Henkel Research Grant for Meike de Goede
Meike de Goede has received a research grant of €14,600 from the Gerda Henkel Foundation for her research on the post-colonial silencing of anti-colonial resistance in Congo-Brazzaville.
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Dative plural endings of the o- and ā-stems in Ancient Greek and a potential early syncretism between Instrumental and Dative in Mycenaean Greek
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean
Astronomical observations in Chile, research into native heritage or the treatment of eye diseases in Brazil - Leiden is researching a large number and a wide variety of different topics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Researchers and representatives from 20 countries met on 11 May in Leiden to…
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LUCAS), visited the University of Kent in Canterbury from March 17 to 20, to give a lecture and a masterclass.
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‘The Honours Academy is a testing ground’
Pushing the limits and trying things out. The academic year of the Honours Academy started on 10 October and all the speakers encouraged students to jump in at the deep end.
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The History of the Arabic Script: New Discoveries and Developments
Lecture, Workshop