44 search results for “languages and cultures of the world” in the Public website
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Languages and Cultures of the world
When it comes to languages and cultures, Leiden University is the university. The global expertise present places our university at the top. In Leiden and The Hague, we study languages and cultures from all regions of the world and from prehistory to the present day. In this way we create a broad view…
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Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2208
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Jan van Dijkhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
j.f.van.dijkhuizen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2147
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Crossing language borders
How do speakers adapt to multilingual contexts?
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The Silk Road Language Web
A linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China
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On the representation of quantity: how our brains shape language
This project investigates properties of quantity expressions across languages from the perspective of how quantity is represented in the human brain.
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New perspectives on English in Scotland
Exploring the language of the lower classes in the nineteenth century
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Winged Words
The prehistory of communication metaphors
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FEATHERS
When we read a text, we think we know who wrote it, but in the early modern period, manuscript production was often a collaborative or ‘socialised’ enterprise involving secretaries and scribes who physically wrote what the author dictated.
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A double-edged sword: religious discourses and LGBTQIA+ inclusion
The role of religion in the identity construction of LGBTQIA+ folks
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Peter Bisschop
Faculty of Humanities
p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2980
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2067
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Does the human brain process angry voices automatically?
Using brain imaging to discover the area in the brain that recognizes emotion.
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Alisa van de Haar
Faculty of Humanities
a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2179
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Nancy Kula
Faculty of Humanities
n.c.kula@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
y.z.zhang.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006
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Olaf Kaper
Faculty of Humanities
o.e.kaper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2041
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Women Writing Mexico (WWM)
Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…
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Language variation at home and abroad: the case of P'urhepecha in Mexico and its US diaspora
By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
k.yoshioka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2553
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South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon
This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1611
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
e.a.op.de.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4381
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Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries
From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2033
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
m.bruil@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3340
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Building Other forms of Communicating the Academy
The BOCA project explores new forms of communicating academic knowledge as a way to strengthen the connection between the university and society.
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Matthijs Westera
Faculty of Humanities
m.westera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Experiencing Fragments
The fragmentary is everywhere: we encounter fragments in social media (Tiktok, Twitter), in personal memories from our childhood, and in traditions from our cultural heritage.
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Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
The Swahili coast has a long-standing history of transoceanic Islamic connections dating back to the 25th century. Yet, print, has changed the world – not only ours. This project unravels unique forms and archives of intellectual history emerging from within South-South connections. In East Africa Indian…
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2027
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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Latin America and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire
How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?
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Emma Grootveld
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069
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‘One day of lessons and the Boa people can read their own language’
Until recently the Congo’s isolated Boa community had never read a single letter in their own language: quite simply, there was no alphabet to describe the language. A crowdfunding campaign by guest staff member Gerrit de Wit has changed that. He plans to use the rest of the money to work with a Congolese…
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From Homo Economicus to Political Animal
Who is Economic Man? Every economic paradigm presupposes an anthropology, a theory of human nature. This project explores the anthropologies presupposed and produced by ancient Greek economic texts, and the specific knowledge forms that shape these anthropologies.
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Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [PRAYER]
This project investigates the full ecosystem of Middle Dutch prayerbooks in order to answer questions about their role in – and impact on – religion, culture, and society in the late medieval Low Countries.
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Voicing the colony
This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Linguistic time travel
A love of puzzles and the patience of a saint: these are two essential traits for linguists wishing to explore the Indo-European language family. Fortunately, Professor Michaël Peyrot possesses both. In his inaugural lecture he will take the audience on a voyage of discovery to the past.