734 search results for “afrika linguistics” in the Staff website
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
Lecture
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The Cosmos Malabaricus programme: researching early modern Kerala through Dutch sources
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Modal phrase reduplication in Xiangzhou Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
Conference, Workshop
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Tackling societal issues with a new vision on public leadership
The Leiden Leadership Centre (LLC) aims to connect science with practice when it comes to public leadership. The Centre, founded by, among others, Dr. Ben Kuipers and Prof. dr. Sandra Groeneveld, is collaborating with a number of organisations. A recent result was a research assignment for a new vision…
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D&I Symposium 2026: ‘You can’t call something inclusive if it doesn’t include everyone’
How can our university really become inclusive? This is what students and staff discussed at our annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. ‘It’s moving from a have-to to a want-to’
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Exploring Leiden University College: A personal journey with alumna Georgina Kuipers
It has been just over a decade since the first students graduated with Leiden University’s unique Liberal Arts and Sciences Bachelor degree. We caught up with one of those pioneering graduates.
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi
Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the algorithm that made him successful, the role of a university in our society and his ambitions at Siemens. ‘I was looking for Siemens, and they were looking…
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Mandarin shì and Vietnamese là: A Tale of Two Complementizers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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Nested garden-path sentences and the syntax-prosody interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Latin America Community Meet-up and Christmas Borrel
Meet-up and drinks
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4th Hybrid Cushitic Conference
Conference
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Workshop: Sharing field notes
Workshop
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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Frying and tweeting. Perception and production aspects of social meaning as a change determinant
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies 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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On Mandarin modals and the distribution of subjects
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Politics in Late Imperial Austria and Contemporary Europe: Back to Normal?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers
Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young researchers the opportunity to develop their ideas for a period of three years.
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype
Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about the effect the drugs can have on depression, anxiety and PTSS, but at the same time they have some doubts. ‘The hype is bound to crash before long.’
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In the Making #11: Whose creativity? Explorations of interspecies being and making
Arts and culture
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MA Asian studies Graduate Student Conference: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
Conference
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Becoming an inclusive university
Conference, D&I Event
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024)
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…
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