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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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Particles and clitics in Bemba verbs
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Liveblog: Leiden University strikes against government cuts
Staff from Leiden University are starting the Dutch universities’ staggered strike against the government cuts on 10 March. Follow the strike in this liveblog.
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’
Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cleveringa lecture on 24 November historian Gert Oostindie will discuss why colonial domination was not regarded as an issue in Leiden for a long time.
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Experts share insights during the Night of Digital Security: ‘The enemy is often invisible’
The digital age offers unprecedented opportunities: information is always accessible, systems are interconnected, and processes are automated. However, these developments also give rise to new threats. During the Night of Digital Security on 26 May at the Wijnhaven building, more than experts shared…
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The long-awaited UN Summit of the Future has ended − what are the results?
Many saw the UN Summit of the Future as the moment of truth for the United Nations and its plans for the world. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law, explains the results.
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023
The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered this year’s LUCAS Public Engagement Award to Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten.
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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SMILE Kick-off Session - POSTPONED
Lecture, SMILE series
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Carel ten CateFaculty of Science
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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LUCL Brainstorm on Gender and Nominal Classification
Conference, Brainstorm
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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‘Tikitoki’ or ‘Tikutoku’? Speech variation among bilinguals in Japan’s Brazilian Diaspora
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2023
Conference
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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“All the aids which a beginner needs”: James Summers’ (1828-1891) research on Chinese grammar
PhD defence
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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Recording College Tour, de podcast! With Eliot Higgins
On Tuesday, 19 November, tv-presenter and lecturer in Journalism and New Media Twan Huys will interview Eliot Higgins for the next recording of College Tour, de podcast! Eliot Higgins is a British investigative journalist, blogger and founder of the online investigative collective Bellingcat. He began…
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Rethinking Economic Security and Resilience in Asia: Lessons from Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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International Law and Governance of the Arctic in an Era of Climate Change
PhD defence
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa
Lecture
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
Lecture, CHiLL series
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
- LACG Meetings
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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The origin of Lithuanian DAUG ‘many’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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Labeling reduced clauses in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Healthcare interpreting today and tomorrow
Lecture
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Third LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture, Retired & Kicking
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A call about... the University Council
The University Council gives the Executive Board (un)solicited advice and helps decide on important topics. For example, permanent contracts for lecturers and the workload and well-being of our students and staff. It’s an important organ, but many staff have no idea what it does. ‘I think it’s great…
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers
Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enable them to continue and expand their scientific research.
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All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up
The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior University Lecturer Florian Schneider about how its leader Xi Jinping is expected to cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Ze…
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Matheus Mendes wins Jaap Doek Thesis Prize 2024 for his research on the right to read
Matheus Mendes was awarded the 12th Jaap Doek Thesis Prize at a ceremony on 13 December 2024 for his thesis on the right to read. The prize honours outstanding master’s theses in children’s rights.