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  Iris Kole Content Marketer

  Administration and Central Services

  j.n.kole@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Casper Wits University Lecturer East Asia Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.wits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276006

• Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare News - 13 November 2024

  For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’

• European Days of Languages Event
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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272069

• 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.

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  Enrico Odelli Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272188

• 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

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Negation in Dutch Sign Language Event - 28 May 2026

  Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

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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

• 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…

• History and change in Sign Language Phonology Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture

• 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

• Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees News - 6 April 2022

  What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's in Russian and Eurasian Studies who regularly help the Ukrainian refugees. They act as the link between the refugees and aid workers at various reception…

• 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…

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

  Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

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  Janneke Geursen Teaching Methodologist for English

  ICLON

  j.w.geursen@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277164

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  Marion Elenbaas University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.b.elenbaas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272957

• 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…

• 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.

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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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  Natalia Gofman Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.d.gofman@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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  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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  Ahmad Rifai

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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

• National language and feminist activism in Republican China: the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

• The language of internet memes Event - 14 November 2025

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

• 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

• What language-specific ‘first aid kits’ can tell us about bilingualism Event - 21 May 2026

  Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series

• Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages Event - 16 December 2025

  Lecture

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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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  Cornelia de Haan Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.de.haan@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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  Charlotte van Haarlem Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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