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• Purple Friday: ‘I try to give the community some support’ News - 8 December 2023

  Purple clothing and a pride flag flying from all University buildings: Leiden University is once again taking part in Purple Friday. How do people experience this day? We asked some employees and students of the Faculty of Humanities.

• Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights Event - 26 September 2025

  Lecture, SMILE Talks

• Inclusive leadership beyond polarisation News - 22 September 2025

  Polarisation is pervasive: in the workplace, within teams, and even at the top of organisations. Discussions become entrenched, emotions rise, and collaboration falters. Connections are lost through ‘us versus them’ thinking. The question is how leaders can maintain space for dialogue when tensions…

• Low-sensory room opened in Lipsius News - 1 October 2025

  Staff and students who want some quiet time out will now have a low-sensory room available to them. Lipsius 1.38 has been specially designed to help people relax.

• Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL) Event
• Opinion Diversity through Hybrid Intelligence Event - 26 March 2025

  PhD defence

• Advisory group Work Balance

• Overview faculty institutes and key-users

• Executive Board President Annetje Ottow on fighting racism: ‘It’s the responsibility of all of us’ News - 26 March 2024

  ‘We may have taken steps together, but there is still much to do in the fight against racism and discrimination’, says Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University’s Executive Board. ‘We have to be aware of this and continue to focus on this difficult, uncomfortable and often confronting topic.’

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  Hsini Huang Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  h.i.huang@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

• Dorothea Samtleben: Nikhef's first female program leader News - 3 April 2023

  As of April 1, physicist Dorothea Samtleben is the first female program leader of Nikhef, the National Institute for Subatomic Physics. Samtleben will lead the Neutrino Physics group there. ‘This is an important step for Nikhef when it comes to diversity.’

• Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia Event - 22 January 2026

  Conference

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  Sanne Rotmeijer Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.h.rotmeijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272044

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  Kohei Suzuki Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  k.suzuki@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009072

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  Tinashe Chimbidzikai PhD candidate / guest

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  t.chimbidzikai@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The global ordering of authority and diversity Event - 3 June 2025

• Do – Re – Mi – Fa – Tone! The fluidity of tone and Ubuntu Linguistics Event - 23 March 2026

  Inaugural lecture

• Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention News - 14 April 2022

  Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are confronted with these on a daily basis. A group that is often not included in research and the debate on racism is people of Asian descent. The Diversity…

• 47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47) Event - 12 December 2025

  Conference

• How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language News - 3 July 2023

  Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? PhD candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left…

• Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other' News - 10 March 2022

  During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storytelling afternoons. They hope to show parents that raising children multilingually is achievable as well as beneficial.

• Emergence of Linguistic Universals in Neural Agents via Artificial Language Learning and Communication Event - 12 December 2025

  PhD defence

• Model painting with diverse techniques Course

  Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

• Conversation leads to understanding: influence of peer-educators on thoughts about LHBT persons News - 9 September 2022

  A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the subject of Marieke Kroneman's dissertation. Defence on 15 September.

• Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change Event - 10 July 2026

  Conference

• PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past? News - 19 April 2022

  What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.

• Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy News - 30 March 2023

  At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy Building and what the guidelines for the University’s exhibition policy should be. These issues will be explored from diverse perspectives during the…

• Planning an event Centre for Linguistics

  If you’re planning to organise an event within the university, the information on this page will help you get started.

• A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs Event - 13 May 2026

  Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People

• LUCL Colloquium Event
• Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations Event
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  Vicky Alcalde Skills Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.v.alcalde@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272973

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  Liesbet Winkelmolen Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.winkelmolen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272659

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  Colin Ewen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rob Goedemans Information Manager

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.w.n.goedemans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272325

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  Marijke van der Wal Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jully Acuña Suarez Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.c.acuna.suarez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Emma Bierings PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.t.j.bierings@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278980

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  Geert Booij Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.e.booij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ton van der Wouden Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.van.der.wouden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Roosmaryn Pilgram Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.pilgram@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273299

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  Andries van Helden Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.a.van.helden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Znati am Dahhane PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.n.am.dahhane@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anooshik Maleki Bakhshmandi PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.maleki.bakhshmandi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Isaac Eaton PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.n.r.eaton@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sara Clarrise Noussi-Tegantchouang Njomgang PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.c.noussi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Patricia Valdivia Suclla-Poppens Skills Lecturer / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.p.valdivia.suclla@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Patricia Espejo Fernández Skills Lecturer / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.p.espejo.fernandez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xiao-Fang Chi Administrator

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.f.chi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Cornelia de Haan Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.de.haan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727