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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'
On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.
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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increasingly discarding the Russian language. What does this mean for the position of Russian in Ukraine?
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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Otto BoeleFaculty of Humanities
- Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
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24th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics
Conference
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
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Heleen SmitsAfrican Studies Centre
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
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The language of Russian propaganda
In 2014 Russia entered Ukraine and occupied Crimea, and about two and a half years ago it began a large-scale invasion. For Ukraine, it’s a war. But Russia calls it a ‘special military operation’. Word choices of this kind affect how people look at issues. A Dutch Research Council (NWO) project led…
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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities
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Mermru: Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages
Lecture
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Carolina Pereira De Queiroz MonteiroFaculty of Archaeology
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Alumni Event Russian and Eurasian Studies
Alumni event
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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Yaming ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Bart AlewijnseFaculty of Humanities
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Frits KortlandtFaculty of Humanities
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Rita SpithoffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Eugénie StapertFaculty of Humanities
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Emergence of Linguistic Universals in Neural Agents via Artificial Language Learning and Communication
PhD defence
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Research: Europe increasingly targeted by Russian sabotage
Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has been conducting a covert sabotage campaign against Europe. The ‘Bewaken en Beveiligen’ (Surveillance and Security) project team at Leiden University has investigated the scale of these operations and compiled its findings in the report Russian Operations…
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‘Louisiana wanted to restart the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century’
In 1808, the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade. Not everyone was happy about this, as Marcella Schute discovered. In her thesis, she shows how politicians from Louisiana made serious attempts to restart the slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Marijn van PuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Russians continue to use age-old military concepts
Russian military concepts developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries still exist and have not lost their strategic relevance. The Russians used them to annex Crimea and are now applying them in the war in Ukraine. Although the concepts have been around for a long time, it does not mean they…
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Russian writer Maxim Osipov coming to Leiden University
Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Osipov will come to the Netherlands for a year to teach in Leiden about Russian literature, his own work and the political situation in Russian.
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Vincent van HeuvenFaculty of Humanities
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Worlds shaped by words: A cross-linguistic investigation into the neural mechanisms of lexico-syntactic feature production
PhD defence
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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English version podcast ‘Scandal and controversy in Russian literature’ launched
Following the success of the Dutch version, the podcast 'Scandal and Controversy in Russian Literature' is now also available in English. Senior University Lecturer Otto Boele guides listeners through eight infamous texts in this version.
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Fei BaiFaculty of Humanities
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’
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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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Overhandiging tweede deel 'A History of Russian Law'
Vijf jaar na de overhandiging van ‘A History of Russian Law’, overhandigde emiritus hoogleraar Ferdinand Feldbrugge op 16 januari het tweede deel van zijn unieke overzichtswerk aan decaan van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid Joanne van der Leun.
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Study of a Russian doctor and innovator in troubled times
Ambroise Paré, Thomas Sydenham and Herman Boerhaave: all were great medical innovators in their time. We know far less about the 19th-century Russian physician and scientist Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. PhD candidate Inge Hendriks researched him in Dutch and Russian archives and collections. She discovered…
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Yingyang WangFaculty of Humanities
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Jiang WuFaculty of Humanities
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’
For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin Kroon has developed a computer system that brings us closer to finding an answer. His PhD defence is on 10 November.
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Carole Tiberius appointed professor of Computational Linguistics: 'If you know how systems work, you can better assess their limitations'
ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake. On 1 January, she was appointed professor of Computational Linguistics. 'There ae two elements to the field: computer science and linguistics.'
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Jill JefferyFaculty of Humanities