509 search results for “arabic language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers
Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enable them to continue and expand their scientific research.
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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Actively working with the teaching material in the classroom
How do you get more interaction with your students during class? Paz Gonzalez has devised a method by which she gives her students an active role during class, turning (even large-scale) lectures into a seminar.
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and foreign students work together remotely on a project that links local issues to an international perspective.
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO Open Competition funding.
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Friend or foe? The role of AI in mitigating biases in HR
AI is already widely being used in HR processes, but it’s unclear whether these applications contribute to fair and inclusive decision making. Leiden researcher Carlotta Rigotti is involved in BIAS, a big consortium research project that aims to provide answers and develop a new, trustworthy AI app…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
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Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'Tempori serviendum est: Cicero’s public voice under the dictatorship of Julius Caesar'
Lecture
- AI Mixer: Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
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LUCAS PhD Alumni Network Event 2022
Alumni event, Job market Preparation for PhD's
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
Lecture
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Developing tailored information for institutes on research grants
Sieger van den Aardweg is Knowledge Base Manager for the Grant Development Team at the Strategy and Academic Affairs Directorate, part of Administration and Central Services. He is working within the Leiden Research Support programme on tailored information provision, in collaboration with several institutes.…
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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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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Daily Dutch (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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PhD and Post Doc’s Career Event: Finding your career inside or outside of academia
Festival, Career Event
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Student (research) ethics training
Conference
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Woodworkers and farmers 3000 years ago: transitions from the Rigveda to the Atharvaveda
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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PhD Career Event: Finding your career inside or outside academia
Career development
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The Śākadvīpīya Sun Cult from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Book Presentation: Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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When Sherlock Holmes Speaks Chinese: Translationese in Chinese Fan Fiction
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture
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Celebrating 30 Years of IIAS
Festival
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Internationalisation in education
Onderwijsmiddag
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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UBH 2022 - Upsetting Binaries & Hierarchies
Conference