703 search results for “better language” in the Staff website
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New podcast on one of Europe's oldest Muslim communities
For over six centuries, the Tatars have been part of Poland’s social and cultural fabric. In this 8-episode series, released weekly, professor Maurits Berger and assistant professor Ewa Górska explore how this Muslim minority has maintained its identity across generations, how Islam is practiced in…
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Lecture and Exhibition
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
m.p.g.m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
m.parafita.couto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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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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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards Embodied Gnosis through a Dancing Language
PhD defence
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Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
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.
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Who's Watching Brussels? Why the EU deserves better watchdogs
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Speaking Korean contest: ‘Actually, I don't dare to do this at all’
In a well-filled Telders Auditorium, university learners of Korean competed with each other to see who speaks Korean the best.
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Emergence of Linguistic Universals in Neural Agents via Artificial Language Learning and Communication
PhD defence
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: ChatGPT in science: academic (dis)honesty or better science?
Lecture
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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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From Afrikaans to Ukrainian: take a free language class with Una Europa
Course
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Infinite love in a finite life: why, according to philosopher Errol Boon, we promise each other ‘eternal’ love
In love, we like to use great words. We promise to love each other ‘forever’ and praise the beloved as nothing less than ‘the one’ . Meanwhile, we know very well that we don’t live eternally and that we may find our ‘true love’ one day on the opposite side of the divorce table. So why do we continue…
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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Linguistics and AI Discussion Series: "Using machine translation for language learning in the classroom"
Lecture, Discussion
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The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Affairs (SEA)
w.tigges@sea.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
l.migliori@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2058
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Marc-Alexandre BeaulieuFaculty of Humanities
m.beaulieu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ziheng ChengFaculty of Humanities
z.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277949
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Rammie Cahlon
Faculty of Humanities
r.r.cahlon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ton HarmsenFaculty of Humanities
a.j.e.harmsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Justin Case
Faculty of Humanities
j.t.case@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ou OuriligeFaculty of Humanities
o.ourilige@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272503
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
o.j.praamstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jingtian Shi
Faculty of Humanities
j.shi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272968
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Christina Eleftheriadi
Faculty of Humanities
c.eleftheriadi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
f.korovsky.moura@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rhomayda Aimah
Faculty of Humanities
r.a.aimah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Emmanuel WalesonFaculty of Humanities
e.g.c.waleson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages
Lecture
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Bridging Wor(l)ds: Future-proofing the Languages and Cultures Sector in Dutch Higher Education
Conference
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Aone van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
a.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2072
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Sjoerd LindenburgICLON
s.lindenburg@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8970