337 search results for “comparative linguistics” in the Staff website
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International Law As We Know It
Lecture
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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
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Embodying Istanbul Greek: How language ideologies interact with speaker identities
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
Lecture
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A Paragenealogy of Computational Rationality
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Citizen Science and Minority Language Sociolinguistics: the Stimmen Project
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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Carte Blanche Interdisciplinariteit
Conference, Carte Blanche
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Student (research) ethics training
Conference
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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Evidence Gathering Strategies in the Investigation of Crimes against Indigenous Peoples
Conference
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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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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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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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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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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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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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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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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Symposium on Ukraine in images, words and sounds
Conference
- Best practices
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: MacBERTh: A Historically Pre-Trained Language Model for English (1450-1950)
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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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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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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Challenges and Pitfalls in Assessing the Impact of Zoroastrian Culture on the Talmud
Lecture, FLARe lecture series
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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Online Book Talk 'Silence and Sacrifice' by Dr. Merav Shohet
Lecture, Online Book Talk
- With kind regards: Convention, standards and breaking the rules in letter-writing
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Tackling societal issues with a new vision on public leadership
The Leiden Leadership Centre (LLC) aims to connect science with practice when it comes to public leadership. The Centre, founded by, among others, Dr. Ben Kuipers and Prof. dr. Sandra Groeneveld, is collaborating with a number of organisations. A recent result was a research assignment for a new vision…
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi
Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the algorithm that made him successful, the role of a university in our society and his ambitions at Siemens. ‘I was looking for Siemens, and they were looking…
- Leiden University Nationalism Network
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From Aesop to La Fontaine and beyond: Word, Image and Education / D’Ésope à La Fontaine et au-delà: Texte, Illustration et Éducation
Conference
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What (and Where) on Earth is Waqwaq?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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UBH 2022 - Upsetting Binaries & Hierarchies
Conference
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium