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719 search results for “classical language” in the Staff website

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273026

• Separating quantum and classical computing: rigorous proof and practical application Event - 27 May 2025

  PhD defence

• Hybrid Quantum-Classical Metaheuristics for Automated Machine Learning Applications Event - 18 November 2025

  PhD defence

• Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award News - 7 March 2023

  University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she can use as she wishes to explore new avenues in basic scientific research.

• ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe' News - 22 November 2022

  On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.

• grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language News - 17 July 2024

  'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.

• Extra information faculties on OER Humanities Course and Examination Regulations (OER)

  The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.

• European Day of Languages - Taalquizine Event - 26 September 2025

  Festival

• Six top rated programmes at humanities News - 11 November 2021

  The bachelor programmes German Language and Culture, Classics, Dutch Language and Culture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious studies and Linguistics have received the predicate top rated programme from the Keuzegids.

• Uncorking Language Event - 28 May 2025

  Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat

• Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge News - 9 October 2025

  How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…

• History and change in Sign Language Phonology Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture

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  Enrico Odelli Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272188

• One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology Event - 20 March 2026

  Lecture, Language and the Human Past

• NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent' News - 23 October 2023

  When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…

• More than 100 objects described on Things That Talk: ‘It’s super cool to be a part of this’ News - 28 June 2021

  On Things That Talk, a website founded and developed by Fresco Sam-Sin, students and researchers describe objects from today and from long ago. By now, more than a hundred objects have been covered. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij and Frank van den Boom contributed to the content.

• Sign language emergence and diachronic change Event - 5 November 2025

  Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

• Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence News - 19 May 2022

  It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…

• Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy News - 17 January 2024

  Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.

• ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages News - 16 December 2022

  Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0715272033

• Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene News - 9 June 2023

  The prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize is annually awarded to the five best dissertations published in the year before in the fields of Humanities, Social sciences and Law. During a festive ceremony in Utrecht Lennart Kruijer received the award from the hands of professor Bas ter Haar…

• In Memoriam: Prof.dr. Henk Bodewitz (1939-2022) News - 24 August 2022

  On August 18, 2022, Henk Bodewitz, distinguished Indologist and emeritus professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University, passed away in his hometown of Utrecht.

• Keuzegids: seven top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University News - 27 November 2025

  Leiden University has seven top-rated bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2026, a consumer guide to university programmes. This is based on the National Student Survey.

• The language of internet memes Event - 14 November 2025

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

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  Ahmad Rifai Staff Member Public Services 2

  Leiden University Libraries

  a.j.rifai@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Florence Fabbricotti Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.f.fabbricotti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mariëtte Groeneveld Administrative staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.p.groeneveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jeeyoung Seo Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.seo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rosa Versluis Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.c.m.versluis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Natalia Gofman Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.d.gofman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zhibo Mu Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.mu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nanouk Sabel Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.n.sabel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Annabel Meester Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.meester@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lucja Czort Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.b.czort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Floris Meertens Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.f.meertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kumiko Hirata Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.hirata@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Crit Cremers Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.j.m.cremers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Claire Smulders Teaching Methodologist for Chinese

  ICLON

  c.m.smulders@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273464

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  Michael McCabe III PhD candidate

  m.d.mccabe.iii@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sam Botan PhD candidate

  s.a.botan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jacques van der Vliet Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.van.der.vliet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272221

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  Glyn Muitjens Scientific coordinator

  muitjens@lorentzcenter.nl | 071 5272727

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  Willemijn Waal Senior university lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.waal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ruben Poelstra External PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.a.e.poelstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ritchie Kolvers Guest

  r.h.j.kolvers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group News - 24 October 2022

  Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Group for the best scholarly publication in the field of Italy Studies in Dutch or Flemish academia.

• Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections News - 13 June 2023

  Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…

• Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research Event - 12 December 2025

  Conference, workshop

• International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration Event - 30 October 2025