1,161 search results for “paula language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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    Charlotte van der VoortFaculty of Humanities
 - Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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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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    Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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    European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
    
    
Festival
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    Leiden Linguistic Diversity Colloquium
    
    
Colloquium
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    Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
    
    
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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    Jiawen QIFaculty of Science
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    Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en HenegouwenFaculty of Humanities
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    Flor Miriam Plaza del ArcoFaculty of Science
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    Tessa MearnsICLON
 - International Mother Language Day 2024
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    Ou OuriligeFaculty of Humanities
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    Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
        
    
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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    Comparative Cross-Modal Linguistics
    
    
Lecture, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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    Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
        
    
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…
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    Summer filled with conferences in Leiden
        
    
It will be a summer filled with conferences at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. In the coming months, there will be something for everyone at the university, especially in the field of languages and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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    SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
    
    
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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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    Sjoerd LindenburgICLON
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    Camil Staps receives Rubicon grant: What does ‘that’ mean?
        
    
PhD student Camil Staps is continuing his academic career in Berlin. He receives a Rubicon grant to do research there on demonstrative pronouns.
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    New language proficiency requirements for new PhD candidates (starting trajectory from 1 September 2024 onwards)
    
    
Research
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    Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
    
    
Workshop Series
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    Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
    
    
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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    4 KIEM grants for Humanities
        
    
Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
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    The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
    
    
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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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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    Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’
        
    
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.
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    Astrid van AlemFaculty of Humanities
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    Sjef Barbiers new Managing Director of INT
        
    
Professor Sjef Barbiers will be appointed Managing Director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) with effect from 1 September 2025. He will step down as scientific director of LUCL as of that date.
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    Thesis assessment
    
    
Thesis assessment is carried out according to faculty standards with associated assessment forms and manuals.
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    Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University
        
    
Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.
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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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    Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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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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    10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
        
    
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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    Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
    
    
Conference
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    Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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    Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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    Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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    Rint SybesmaFaculty of Humanities
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    Student poster presentations: Linguistic Fieldwork B
    
    
Exhibition, poster session
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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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    Jeroen WiedenhofFaculty of Humanities
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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.’
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    Milan IsmangilFaculty of Humanities
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    Dimitris Kentrotis ZinelisFaculty of Humanities
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    Robin OomkesFaculty of Humanities
 
