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• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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…

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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

  Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

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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

• 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…

• 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…

• Ainu Language Presentation Event - 30 June 2025

  Workshop & exhibition

• 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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  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

• The language of internet memes Event - 14 November 2025

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

• Why rules don’t work for some of the population News - 16 September 2024

  Excessive regulatory burden causes economic harm and can undermine trust in government. Policymakers wishing to ease this should be more mindful of people’s differing responses to rules, says PhD candidate Ritsart Plantenga in his dissertation.

• 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…

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

  Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII

• Purple Friday: ‘I try to give the community some support’ News - 8 December 2023

  Purple clothing and a pride flag flying from all University buildings: Leiden University is once again taking part in Purple Friday. How do people experience this day? We asked some employees and students of the Faculty of Humanities.

• 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

• Old signs & current signs in LSF (French Sign Language) Event - 28 January 2026

  Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People

• Language Policy and Planning of Amazigh Languages in Morocco Event - 6 January 2026

  PhD defence

• ‘Some think I’m too lightweight, others too highbrow’ News - 14 May 2024

  Cornald Maas was able to ‘pioneer’ in Leiden. This Dutch Studies graduate, presenter, programme maker and publicist combined an active student life with studying hard.

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  Colin Ewen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Geert Booij Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.e.booij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xiao-Fang Chi Administrator

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.f.chi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eli ten Lohuis Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.ten.lohuis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Cornelia de Haan Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.de.haan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Charlotte van Haarlem Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.e.van.haarlem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anne Marie Kuijpers Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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