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• Uncorking Language Event - 28 May 2025

  Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat

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

  Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII

• Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel News - 26 September 2022

  Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.

• 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…

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  Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003903

• 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…

• Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2021: the nominees News - 4 October 2022

  Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is considering six nominations. All of great quality, but on different topics. These range from political party bans to questions regarding commitment within…

• Mandela Scholarship Fund Scholarship

  Bachelor, Master

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  Sasha Lubotsky Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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

  Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

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  Luca Bruls PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.r.bruls@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278030

• Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts Event - 24 March 2026

  Conference

• LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize News - 3 September 2021

  Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…

• 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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  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

• Social media Humanities Guidelines and support

  Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.

• 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.

• Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere: An example from the deaf people of Bissau Event - 19 February 2026

  PhD defence

• ‘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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  Florence Fabbricotti Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.f.fabbricotti@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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  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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  Lidy Bont Administrative staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.c.m.bont@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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  Ahmad Rifai Staff Member Public Services 2

  Leiden University Libraries

  a.j.rifai@library.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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  Tracy Huang Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  q.huang@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

• Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings Event - 12 December 2025

  Lecture, This Time for Africa series

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  Florien Hollander External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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

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  Jenny Doetjes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.doetjes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272181

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  Jill Jeffery University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.v.jeffery@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271513

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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

• Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel News - 19 January 2021

  Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…

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  Sara Bolghiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271693

• Inflection in Kaaɓooje Event - 17 October 2025

  Lecture, This Time for Africa series

• The language of internet memes Event - 14 November 2025

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

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  Rik van Gijn Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272413

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272943

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• Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil Event - 28 November 2025

  Lecture, This Time for Africa! series

• Adjudicating Legal Pluralism in South Africa's Constitutional Democracy: The Challenge of Paradox Event - 14 May 2025

  Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2025

• 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…