458 search results for “komen language” in the Staff website
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.
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this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?
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Iris KoleAdministration and Central Services
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Participate in Het Grote Archeoscience Fest on June 27
Research
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
- European Days of Languages
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
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.
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
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.
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
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.
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'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.
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
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…
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Janneke GeursenICLON
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Marion ElenbaasFaculty of Humanities
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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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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
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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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Florence FabbricottiFaculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeeyoung SeoFaculty of Humanities
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities
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Nanouk Sabel
Faculty of Humanities
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Annabel MeesterFaculty of Humanities
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
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Floris Meertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahmad Rifai
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Claire SmuldersICLON