A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…

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Stephan Raaijmakers is a professor of Communicative AI at the Centre for Linguistics.

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Curious to find out how you can contribute to a safe working environment? Then keep reading to discover our tips for working securely. They will help you to work more safely in specific situations. This section contains tools and tips to promote safe working habits in specific situations.

For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.

Paula Harvey is an external PhD candidate and lecturer at LUCAS.

Northern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 001 of the Mathias de Vrieshof. Southern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 004 of the PN van Eyckhof.

Felix Ameka is Professor by Special Appointment and Senior University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'

We can all do our bit to keep our information and personal data safe. It’s easier than you think and is often about the small things. Working privacy and security smart means protecting your own data and that of your colleagues. Want to know how best to go about that? Check it out here!

Hannah De Mulder is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

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A grant from the JEDI Fund allowed university lecturer Jessie Morgan-Owens to design a lecture series on indigenous studies. ‘We filled a gap in the knowledge.’

Renfei Bai is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Martijn Lemmen is a lecturer and PhD candidate/guest at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tessa Mearns is assistant professor at ICLON.

Martin Kroon is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Michaël Opgenhaffen is an assistant professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

Carel Smith is connected to the Legal history department as associate professor.

Pablo Isla Monsalve is university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Amos van Baalen is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). She obtained her PhD cum laude in 2023 from the University of Jaén (Spain), where she focused on hate speech detection using Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies. She later conducted…

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Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective…

Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

Pascale Eskes is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Linguistics

The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years were able to learn about different language studies at the Faculty of Humanities.

For associate professor Jenneke van der Wal, things have been good recently. After being awarded a Vici and Una Europa grant, she has now also received an Ammodo Science Award. ‘It is a nice confirmation that I am doing valuable work.’

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.

Gen is interested in exploring questions about what it means to rehearse (and plan) the future of our urban waterbodies with humans and non-humans in mind.

PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…

The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…

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.

Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.

Steven Lauritano is an art and architectural historian, and assistant professor at Leiden University. His research examines the intersection of architecture and antiquarianism, the history of architectural preservation, and the exchanges that have animated architectural-history-writing and design. Before…

Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is a Sanskritist and cultural historian of ancient India, with particular interest in the development of Hinduism and related traditions. His research is philological in…

Rick Honings is a scaliger professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.