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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?'
Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently against people with a gender expression that does not match their birth sex. Why does this evoke such resistance? We asked Professor by special appointment…
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English Department turns 75: English Studies alive and kicking in Leiden
At the end of May, the Leiden English Language and Culture Programme, formerly known as the Department of English Language and Literature, celebrated its 75th anniversary (starting from the appointment of the first professor of English Studies). Over 220 alumni, staff present and past, and students…
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Ancient Greek spelling mistakes shed new light on language development
If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean. University lecturer Joanne Stolk has been awarded an ERC grant to explore the kinds of spelling mistakes that were made in these scripts. And, more importantly, what improvements…
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
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FGGA in 2024: This was the year of our faculty
2024 was a remarkable and eventful year for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. In this year overview, we look back month by month at the key events and developments.
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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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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Cruces etymologicae: New etymologies of some old Latin words
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Film screening - Fireside Peace Chats
Arts and culture
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11th International conference on industrial ecology
Conference
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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Spionnen op de Noordzee
Debate
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Priority modality, scalarity and modal concord in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Approaching Mandarin wh-ex situ: D-linking effect
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Counting events: Syntax and semantics of Chinese verbal classifiers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony
Conference, Workshop
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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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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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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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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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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…
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2023
Conference
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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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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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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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‘Tikitoki’ or ‘Tikutoku’? Speech variation among bilinguals in Japan’s Brazilian Diaspora
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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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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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa
Lecture
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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SMILE Kick-off Session - POSTPONED
Lecture, SMILE series
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Awapit Verbs
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars