923 search results for “russian and slavery linguistics” in the Staff website
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
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Student poster presentations: Linguistic Fieldwork B
Exhibition, poster session
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Work-in-Progress: ‘Connecting Histories of Abolition: ‘Ameliorating’ slavery in British crown colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Language courses offered by the Academic Language Centre
Language
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Tony FosterFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen WiedenhofFaculty of Humanities
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Introducing: Shiru Lim
Shiru Lim has been working at the Institute of History as an assistant professor since August 1, 2023. Below she introduces herself.
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Introducing: Isaac Scarborough
Isaac McKean Scarborough has been working at the Institute for History as a lecturer since September 2021. Below he introduces himself!
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Extraction of linguistic atlas/dialect survey data
Lecture, Workshop Series
- A Tale in Two Tongues
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Dunja WackersFaculty of Science
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.
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ECOLe
Welcome to the Expertise Centre for Teaching and Learning (ECOLe). Here you will find information on didactics, teacher development, teaching innovation, assessment and the use of teaching tools at humanities.
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Alex ReunekerFaculty of Humanities
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?
As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…
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Yitsz NeurinkFaculty of Humanities
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'
University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.
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Anik NandiFaculty of Humanities
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Louise FriisFaculty 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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Genetics proves it: Indo-European did not come to Europe on horseback
Horses were first domesticated in South-West Russia, is the conclusion drawn by an international team of researchers writing in the well-respected journal Nature. Their conclusion resolves a longstanding archaeological question. But, surprisingly enough, this domestication did not contribute to the…
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The Moroccan Register of “Slaves” in the Early 18th Century: Enslavement, Blackness and Racial Binary
Lecture
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‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’
Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline receives around 10 million calls each year. The Benefits Affair emphasised the citizen’s perspective in communications with the Tax and Customs Administration.…
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
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Jin WangFaculty of Humanities
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Evelyn BosmaFaculty of Humanities
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Jian SunFaculty of Humanities
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Chams BernardFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting WangFaculty of Humanities
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
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Aljosa Sorgo
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed AliFaculty of Humanities
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Abel WarriesFaculty of Humanities
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Eugene Agapiou
Faculty of Humanities
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Lianne Westenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Katrina Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Hang Cheng
Faculty of Humanities
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Luuk Speckens
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthijs Bassant
Faculty of Humanities
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Elise Rijpsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolas Lotman
Faculty of Humanities
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Winnie Hofmeester
Faculty of Humanities