580 search results for “cultural representation of illness and debility” in the Staff website
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Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Colonial government by correspondence: the British government's communicative practice in colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Gestures to signs around the world
Conference, Workshop
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Chinese Labor Migration to the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, China Seminar
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Book Launch for Dr. Kate Brackney's 'Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness'
Lecture, Book Roundtable
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Speculative Sounds, Speculative Fictions Reading Group: Inaugural Meeting
Course
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Want to have a say in important issues at the university? Then stand as a candidate for the consultation bodies
Do you want to provide advice on issues of your own choosing, and help decide on important subjects within the university? If you do, then it’s time for you to stand as a candidate for a faculty or employee council. ‘Standing for election is a good way for you to join in the dialogue. We don’t just…
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The long-awaited UN Summit of the Future has ended − what are the results?
Many saw the UN Summit of the Future as the moment of truth for the United Nations and its plans for the world. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law, explains the results.
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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In conversation with the Faculty Board
During much of 2025, the faculty’s financial situation was the main concern. In September 2025 it became clear that a reorganisation with compulsory redundancies would not be necessary, and in December we concluded the investigation stage of the Reorganisation Code. This is now several months ago. Where…
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webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Implications of Case (mis-)matches for theories of ATB-movement. Evidence from non-syncretic mismatches involving the genitive of negation in
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Frying and tweeting. Perception and production aspects of social meaning as a change determinant
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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The aorist system of Phrygian
Lecture
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Reporting Reality: Women’s Rights in India
Debate, Leiden Asia Academy
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Worship without Image: Gaurī in her aniconic Pañcapiṇḍī form
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Book presentation: Israelite Religion
Lecture, Book presentation
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Book presentation: The world according to North Korea
Lecture, Boekpresentatie
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Religion as political tool: the influence of Christian Zionism in the US
Lecture, Actualiteitencollege Den Haag
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Patterns of semantic change and reconstruction
Lecture
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‘We all support equal opportunities, but disagree on how to achieve them’
Rotterdam is an extreme example of inequality in the Netherlands. There are huge health and life expectancy differences between neighbourhoods. Good access to healthcare and education isn’t a cure-all, say inequality economists Lieke Beekers and Hans van Kippersluis
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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Doctoral Exhibition Judith van IJken
PhD defence, Doctoral Exhibition
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The syntax of Dutch (non-clausal) manner PPs
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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4th Hybrid Cushitic Conference
Conference
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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Adjectival Doubling Construction - 'I almost forgot the most importantest part'
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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No phases
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Asia Academy #18: ChatGPT vs Deepseek: China's Rise as AI Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
- Students and PhD candidates: apply by 18 December to join our Una Europa task force