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• 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

• Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back' News - 20 September 2021

  On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.

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

  Festival

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  Florian Schneider Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272544

• The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University News - 26 September 2024

  Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.

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  Anne Sytske Keijser Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.s.keijser@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272217

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  Johanneke Caspers University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272157

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  Göran Sundholm Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.g.sundholm@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272592

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  Olga Lundysheva PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.lundysheva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marianne van Dijken Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mdijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tessa Verhoef Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  t.verhoef@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277903

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  Matthew Sung Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125

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  Casper Wits University Lecturer East Asia Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.wits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276006

• this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language News - 17 September 2024

  Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?

• Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare News - 13 November 2024

  For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272069

• European Days of Languages Event
• Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour News - 28 July 2015

  “Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…

• NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’ News - 26 September 2022

  Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.

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  Iris Kole Content Marketer

  Administration and Central Services

  j.n.kole@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’ News - 2 October 2024

  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.

• Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean News - 22 January 2025

  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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  Marinus van IJzendoorn

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vanijzen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272649

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• 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.

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

  Festival

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  Annachiara Raia University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.raia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275283

• The Values of Language(s) in the Ancient World Event - 12 June 2025

  Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII

• 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

• 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…

• 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…

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  Sasha Lubotsky Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 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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  Marion Elenbaas University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.b.elenbaas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272957

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  Janneke Geursen Teaching Methodologist for English

  ICLON

  j.w.geursen@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277164

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  Florien Hollander External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  w.f.hollander@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

• 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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  Natalia Gofman Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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