833 search results for “african sidn language” in the Staff website
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Casper Wits
Faculty of Humanities
c.wits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006
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Book presentation: The world according to North Korea
Lecture, Boekpresentatie
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VSBfonds Beurs
Bachelor, Master, PhD
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Janine Ubink
Faculty of Law
j.m.ubink@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7493
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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Religion as political tool: the influence of Christian Zionism in the US
Lecture, Actualiteitencollege Den Haag
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Emma Grootveld
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Iris Kole
Administration and Central Services
j.n.kole@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'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.
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
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.
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Marianne van Dijken
Social & Behavioural Sciences
m.j.van.dijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Social & Behavioural Sciences
m.h.van.ijzendoorn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Valerie Frissen on NPO Radio 1 about Microsoft's new VALL-E software
Microsoft’s new software VALL-E only has to hear a voice for three seconds to be able to imitate it almost perfectly. You can choose which emotion the voice should use and what it should say. Valerie Frissen, Professor by special appointment of Digital Technology and Social Change at eLaw, and Director…
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Joseph Fiifi Barimah-Begyina Fosu-Ankrah
African Studies Centre
j.fosu-ankrah@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
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…
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272188
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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“Armez-vous des sciences”? The Creative Lives of African Universities
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
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…
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Asbestos removal operation: final stage
The final stage of the asbestos removal operation in wing B will commence at the same time as the building work on the library. Neither of these operations will affect the operational management of the Faculty.
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Data stewards
Do you have questions about data management? Please contact the data stewards:
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Erasmus+ for Traineeships after Graduation
Bachelor, Master
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
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.
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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’
A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World. ‘I am looking forward to promoting ethnolinguistic diversity and vitality.’
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Jessie Sun
Faculty of Humanities
j.sun.14@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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Call for chapters: Sustainable development in Africa
Research
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Loes Oudenhuijsen
African Studies Centre
l.w.oudenhuijsen@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lidy Bont
Faculty of Humanities
a.c.m.bont@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2332
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Yiwen Zou
Faculty of Humanities
y.zou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272332
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
k.hirata@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jeeyoung Seo
Faculty of Humanities
j.seo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mick Stam
Faculty of Humanities
m.stam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Annabel Meester
Faculty of Humanities
a.meester@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2025: the nominees
Every Political Science master’s student at Leiden University completes their degree with thesis. The thesis provides students with the opportunity to pursue a topic of their choosing in depth and conduct independent research. It is a demanding task that requires dedication, attention to detail, and…
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Communications department
Here you will find an overview of all communication departments within the university.
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
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…
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Rik van Gijn
Faculty of Humanities
e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272413
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2943
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The Values of Language(s) in the Ancient World
Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII