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ICT-contact persons
For each university unit, the ICT Shared Service Centre (ISSC) has an appointed ICT contact person responsible for applying for ICT facilities for research, teaching and operational management.
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LDE Governance of Migration and Diversity Seed Fund
Master, PhD
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.
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Inge VeldhuisFaculty of Humanities
i.veldhuis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2146
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
j.donkers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Chiara RavinettoFaculty of Humanities
c.l.d.ravinetto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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The dynamics of contact-induced change and language shift
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Tonal reflexes of topic and focus in Heiban languages
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa
Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African continent.
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Colours and symbols to support dyslexic students
In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.
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Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other
North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international sanctions, is increasingly operating out of the liberal world order’s sight, PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog warns.
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
m.parafita.couto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
Conference
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Contact and advice
The Expertise Centre for Teaching and Learning (ECOLe) is the go-to place for support for all faculty members at the Faculty of Humanities. We provide assistance with all questions related to didactics, professional development, and the use of digital tools in teaching.
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Miriam WaltzSocial & Behavioural Sciences
m.h.a.waltz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anne HulzinkFaculty of Humanities
a.l.hulzink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
y.s.abdullahi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lisa van der MarkFaculty of Humanities
l.m.van.der.mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125
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Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed AliFaculty of Humanities
a.sosal.altayeb.mohammed.ali@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
d.engel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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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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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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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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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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Africa Thesis Award for Baleseng Maeneche
Baleseng Maeneche (University of the Western Cape) has won the Africa Thesis Award 2024 with a master's thesis on media representation of male perpetrators of violence against women and children in South Africa. Her research challenges dominant narratives and emphasises the need for fair media representation…
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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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Leiden University researchers tackle global challenges with Una Europa-Africa grants
Three international research projects involving Leiden University researchers will receive funding from the Una Europa university alliance.
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
f.korovsky.moura@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ou OuriligeFaculty of Humanities
o.ourilige@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125
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Wahyu WidodoFaculty of Humanities
w.widodo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727