Iyute Deborah Oyuu is a PhD candidate and as a Deaf person, she uses Sign language to communicate. Iyute Deborah is attached to Through the Hands of Signers Project which is under the coordination of Dr. Victoria Nyst from the Department of Linguistics. Iyute Deborah is a Sign Language & Disability…

Anoma van der Veere is a researcher within the Leiden Asia Centre at Leiden University. He is based at the University of Osaka in Japan and writes about international collaboration and public policy in the fields of technology, education and sport. His research focuses on sport and education through…

Thijs Porck teaches Old English, Middle English, Tolkien and Medieval Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He is a cultural historian of early medieval England, with a background in medieval history as well as English language and literature. The common strand in his research…

Nancy C. Kula is Professor and Chair of African Linguistics. Her research interests focus on a range of topics in African and General Linguistics with a focus on Bantu Languages investigating phonology, morphology, tone and their interfaces. She also works on Language Policy in Africa, specifically…

Débora Wanderley is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University and a member of the project Through the Hand, led by Victoria Nyst. She is a Deaf Brazilian with close connections to the Deaf community in different regions of Brazil. Débora has a true passion for studying, researching, and teaching…

Hilde Gunnink is a linguist specialized in the languages of Southern Africa. Her research focuses on documenting the synchronic structures of African languages, how these developed and changed over time, and what this can tell us about the human past.

Niels Schoubben is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project “The Silk Road Language Web” (PI: Prof. dr. Michaël Peyrot). As a linguist-cum-philologist, he studies the written remains of extinct Central Asian languages in order to uncover words and grammatical patterns borrowed from one ancient language…

Martine Bruil is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.

Following the completion of my BSc in Psychology here in Leiden in 2019, I moved to Utrecht University to obtain a research MSc in Neuroscience and Cognition in 2021. Currently, I join the CoPAN lab at the Cognitive Psychology unit as a PhD candidate. Since I began my BSc in Psychology, I have been…

Marc Buijnsters is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Gijsbert Rutten is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. His research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies.

Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela is a deaf PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. He is pursuing his degree in research on Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Science of Education from College of St. Rose, New York- US and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from…

Priscilla Lam is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. As part of the Melody in Speech project, Priscilla’s research investigates the prosody of tone languages. She examines the interaction between tone and intonation systems with a focus on West African languages, namely…

Ben Arps is a Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Willemijn Heeren is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Lisa Cheng is Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests centre upon comparative syntax, and the interactions between syntax and semantics, syntax and prosody, as well as syntax and processing. She is a co-founder of the Leiden Institute…

The Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea. Rerouting via South Africa is expensive, whereas the Arctic route only takes a week. Once a no-go zone, this route might be a more realistic option. Mind the nuclear submarines, though…

Damian Alan Pargas is Professor of the History and Culture of North America at Leiden University and executive director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg. He is mainly specialized in the history of slavery and its aftermath.

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Tian Yang is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. Tian is currently investigating how users perceive the output of machine translation by using eye tracking.

Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations…

Dr. Mahmood Yenkimaleki is a guest researcher in LUCL at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

An article by Georgina Kuipers has been published this month in Dutch journal Overheid & Aansprakelijkheid (Government and Accountability). It deals with policy introduced in response to damage caused by the construction of the Amsterdam North/South metro line and its aim to rebuild trust. The title…

Matthijs Westera is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Remco Breuker is a historian of Korea and Northeast Asia, who works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and on contemporary North Korean affairs. He published on the medieval state of Koryo, Korean historiography, Northeast Asia and North Korea, as well as literary translations from Korean…

Rogier Creemers is a Lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies. With a background in Sinology and International Relations, and a PhD in Law, his research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy, as well as China's growing importance in global digital affairs. He is the principal investigator…

Suzan Verberne is professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University and a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS).

Ruth Alison Clemens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her current research project is titled 'Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola' and is part of the NWO Startersbeurs project 'Tracing Players Playing Traces: Non/Human Music…