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1,211 search results for “africa linguistics” in the Staff website

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• This Time for Africa! series Event
• SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series Event
• Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Event
• 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics Event - 24 August 2026

  Conference

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  Sara Petrollino University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.petrollino@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273069

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.gunnink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274963

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  Priscilla Lam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.y.p.lam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272945

• Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL) Event
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  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.c.kula@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272242

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  W van Kessel

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  w.m.j.van.kessel@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276605

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  Antonio Frank

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.frank@asc.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Karin Nijenhuis Lecturer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  c.t.nijenhuis@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277377

• 24th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics Event - 6 June 2027

  Conference

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  Jenneke van der Wal Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273658

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  Crisófia Langa da Câmara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.f.langa.da.camara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Victoria Nyst Associate professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272208

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Maria Ditmars Education development officer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  m.d.ditmars@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Felix Ameka Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.k.ameka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Heleen Smits Scientific Information Specialist

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  h.j.smits@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273355

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  Sini Hassinen Postdoctoral researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.k.hassinen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• change: The diachronic emergence of alienability splits cross-linguistically Event - 8 May 2026

  Lecture, Language and the Human Past

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  Yaming Zhang Lab coordinator & technician

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278104

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  Bart Alewijnse Programmer/lab technician

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.alewijnse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272320

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  Frits Kortlandt Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.h.h.kortlandt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Harry Wels Associate Professor African Organisational Anthropology

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  h.wels@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273771

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  Mohamed Muse Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  m.a.muse@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

• Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa News - 11 June 2024

  Leiden University will deepen its cooperation with knowledge institutions in Africa. During a trip to Ghana, a delegation spoke with several African knowledge institutions about intensifying their collaboration.

• 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.

• Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA) News - 5 December 2024

  In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.

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  Marijn van Putten Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.putten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271583

• Former president South-Africa visits Campus The Hague News - 10 July 2023

  Former President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa gave a public lecture on Campus The Hague on 7 July. His story was about the economic transformation of Africa.

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  c.u.uche@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273854

• Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs News - 25 June 2021

  Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’

• New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa News - 6 November 2023

  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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  Yingyang Wang

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  Jill Jeffery University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024: Baleseng Maeneche News - 13 May 2025

  The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2024 prize has been awarded to Baleseng Maeneche, a graduate of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, for her thesis 'Media Representations of Male Perpetrators of Violence against Women and Children:…

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  David Ehrhardt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  d.w.l.ehrhardt@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009313

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  Willemijn Heeren Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.f.l.heeren@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277068

• ‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’ News - 10 November 2022

  For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin Kroon has developed a computer system that brings us closer to finding an answer. His PhD defence is on 10 November.

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  Yuyang Wei Contract PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.wei@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272643

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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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  Jiang Wu Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.wu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274129

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  Fei Bai PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.bai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272076

• Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments News - 29 September 2025

  Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.

• University researchers tackle global challenges with Una Europa-Africa grants News - 26 September 2024

  Three international research projects involving Leiden University researchers will receive funding from the Una Europa university alliance.

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  Amadou Adamou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.amadou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’ News - 14 April 2022

  On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the final of the Linguistics Olympiad. Professor Sasha Lubotsky and PhD student Cid Swanenvleugel are both former Olympiad winners. Now they are involved…