861 search results for “arabic language and literature” in the Staff website
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
s.a.polak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2142
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Arnout KoornneefFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.w.koornneef@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1861
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
i.lin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5733
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
d.a.m.sonnevelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Andries HiskesFaculty of Humanities
a.r.hiskes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
f.busti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2668
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
e.j.van.alphen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
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…
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Sociolinguistic ethnography in the COVID-19 era: Exploring language and identity in Scotland, ‘New Scotland’ and New England
Lecture, Language Policy and Practices Series
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Now available: Le Docte Legal Dictionary in Four Languages
Library, Research
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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorn appointed as Professor Law and Health
Starting 1 October 2022, Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorn has been appointed as Professor Law and Health.
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Paul van ElsFaculty of Humanities
p.van.els@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2595
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Arend QuakFaculty of Humanities
arend.quak@kpnmail.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anouschka van DijkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.j.m.van.dijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
m.m.e.buijnsters@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2920
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I-Fan LinScience
i.lin@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jing YuFaculty of Humanities
j.yu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2031
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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
h.f.j.horstmanshoff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Liza van den BoschFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.j.van.den.bosch@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3724
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Keuzegids consumer guide: six top programmes at Leiden University
Leiden University has six top bachelor’s programmes, according to Keuzegids universiteiten 2024 consumer guide to universities published on 30 November 2023. This once again puts the university in third place among broad universities ranked according to top programmes.
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
e.minnaard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2358
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
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Binge- eating disorder in the Arabic world and the Netherlands
PhD defence
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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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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
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…
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Leiden Literature Lunch Lecture (and reading) - Literary Leiden
Lunch Lecture (and reading)
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How can academics be supported in the face of threats on social media?
'Academics who share their knowledge with the outside world on social media are often insulted or even threatened. Especially female academics and academics of colour seem to regularly be the victim of sexist and racist comments.' This is what Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and Literature…
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence each other and each other's languages? Associate professor Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant of almost two million euros to unravel this 'web…
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Edmund Flett wins J.C. Baak Thesis Prize 2023
Edmund Flett, alumnus of the International Relations master's programme, has won the 2023 J.C. Baak Prize for his thesis ‘Settlements now, settlement later. Land swaps, settler relocation, and the viability of the two-state solution in Israel-Palestine’.
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
y.horsman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2777
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Harrie Boelens
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
h.h.boelens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Joan BoothFaculty of Humanities
j.booth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Joost GrootensFaculty of Humanities
j.grootens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tom KouwenhovenScience
t.kouwenhoven@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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Jenneke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
g.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3658
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Leonid KulikovFaculty of Humanities
l.kulikov@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marcello BonsangueScience
m.m.bonsangue@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7095
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
i.j.g.c.ligtvoet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1956
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Hugo KoningFaculty of Humanities
h.h.koning@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2667
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Betty MoltFaculty of Humanities
e.a.molt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Koen de CeusterFaculty of Humanities
k.de.ceuster@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727