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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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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Colours and symbols to support dyslexic students
In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Film screening and Book Launch
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Sanne van LuenenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
s.van.luenen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |
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Sandra van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
sdijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273913
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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New podcast on one of Europe's oldest Muslim communities
For over six centuries, the Tatars have been part of Poland’s social and cultural fabric. In this 8-episode series, released weekly, professor Maurits Berger and assistant professor Ewa Górska explore how this Muslim minority has maintained its identity across generations, how Islam is practiced in…
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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
s.m.nauta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276370
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Oriol Febrer i VilasecaFaculty of Humanities
o.febrer.i.vilaseca@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272252
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Sjoerd LindenburgICLON
s.lindenburg@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278970
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Aone van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
a.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272072
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272150
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
m.newton@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272165
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
m.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272073
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Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
h.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272131
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Levina de Wolf
Faculty of Humanities
l.j.de.wolf@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272110
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Jiaxin SunFaculty of Humanities
j.sun.14@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272620
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Jingtian Shi
Faculty of Humanities
j.shi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272968
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Emmanuel WalesonFaculty of Humanities
e.g.c.waleson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rhomayda Aimah
Faculty of Humanities
r.a.aimah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ziheng ChengFaculty of Humanities
z.h.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277949
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Ou OuriligeFaculty of Humanities
o.ourilige@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272503
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
f.k.moura@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Justin Case
Faculty of Humanities
j.t.case@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ton HarmsenFaculty of Humanities
a.j.e.harmsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Support
w.tigges@sea.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
j.donkers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
l.migliori@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272058
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
o.j.praamstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Peter BurgerFaculty of Humanities
p.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272099
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Lecture and Exhibition
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Speaking Korean contest: ‘Actually, I don't dare to do this at all’
In a well-filled Telders Auditorium, university learners of Korean competed with each other to see who speaks Korean the best.
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Infinite love in a finite life: why, according to philosopher Errol Boon, we promise each other ‘eternal’ love
In love, we like to use great words. We promise to love each other ‘forever’ and praise the beloved as nothing less than ‘the one’ . Meanwhile, we know very well that we don’t live eternally and that we may find our ‘true love’ one day on the opposite side of the divorce table. So why do we continue…
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages
Lecture
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Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
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Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: Dissecting Latino power, language and culture
Lecture
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Evert Jan van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
e.j.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273949