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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Introducing: Maud Rijks News - 20 February 2025

  Maud Rijks recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate within the starting grant project "You say security, I say crisis – Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries in Security Cooperation and Crisis Governance" under the supervision of Dario Fazzi. Below she introduces herself.

• NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’ News - 2 October 2024

  A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.

• Introducing: Suzan Abozyid News - 9 January 2023

  Since 1 October 2022, Suzan Abozyid is a PhD-candidate at the Institute for History. Below she introduces herself.

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  Annachiara Raia University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.raia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275283

• 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.

• ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe' News - 22 November 2022

  On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.

• 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

• PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’ News - 16 April 2024

  From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.

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  Finn Lindo-Dunn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.c.lindo-dunn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272210

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  Francesca Rosati PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.rosati@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yifan Hu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.hu.24@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Enrico Odelli Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Uncorking Language Event - 28 May 2025

  Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat

• Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis News - 8 February 2023

  The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…

• 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

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  Sasha Lubotsky Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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

  Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

• 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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  Marion Elenbaas University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Janneke Geursen Teaching Methodologist for English

  ICLON

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

• Radio Palestine/Israel Challenging Preconceptions: ‘A courageous step in a polarised debate’ News - 14 February 2025

  The Israel-Palestine conflict regularly sparked intense debates in university lecturer Noa Schonmann's classes. She decided to start a podcast with journalist Rajaa Natour to teach her students to have deep and difficult conversations in a nuanced way.

• ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages News - 16 December 2022

  Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.

• Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge News - 12 March 2024

  Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…

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  Florence Fabbricotti Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.f.fabbricotti@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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  Natalia Gofman Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.d.gofman@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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  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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  Lidy Bont Administrative staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.c.m.bont@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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  Mariëtte Groeneveld Administrative staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.p.groeneveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tracy Huang Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  q.huang@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Jeeyoung Seo Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.seo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ahmad Rifai Staff Member Public Services 2

  Leiden University Libraries

  a.j.rifai@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jenny Doetjes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.doetjes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272181

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  Jill Jeffery University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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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

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272943

• The language of internet memes Event - 14 November 2025

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

• Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition News - 25 November 2021

  This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.

• Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections News - 13 June 2023

  Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…