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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and foreign students work together remotely on a project that links local issues to an international perspective.
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme. The grant will enable them and their project teams to carry out their own teaching innovation project.
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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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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL
With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden.
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Introducing... The Marketing & Communications department
Organisation
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Introducing: Indira Huliselan
Indira Huliselan recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate within the research project 'Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire'. Below, she introduces herself.
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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their research team and put their best ideas into action.
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Speed dating on Master’s Open Day: ‘What can you do with that master’s degree?’
Almost 3,500 visitors came to Master’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague.
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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LIFF Programmer Bob de Brabandere: ‘My academic background enables me to clearly identify the appropriate audience for a film’
Bob de Brabandere discovered his deep passion for cinema through a minor in Film and Theatre Studies. He currently serves as Assistant Manager at Bioscopen Leiden and as a programmer for the Leiden International Film Festival, which commences on 9 October.
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO Open Competition funding.
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Alex Geurds new Professor in Central American archaeology: 'A professorship as a unifying force'
The appointment of Alex Geurds as Professor in Central American Archaeology reinvigorates an existing focus within the faculty. 'The research chair offers opportunities to make cross-connections, across departments and disciplines.'
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Combining research and a good cause: Tutoring programme concludes successfully
More than a course. That was the aim of the Leiden Tutoring programme. Through weekly tutoring lessons, students did not just earn five EC. They helped Dutch primary-school children from neighbourhoods with a low socioeconomic status.
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Crossing the divide: learning about language policies and practices around the world
During the past year online meetings and lectures have become a firm feature of university life. One of the highlights of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics’ online activities has been the online seminar series ‘Language policy and practices in the Global North and South’ organised by guest…
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Students, staff and alumni to share the stage at Leiden Canal Concert
Music lovers are welcome at this free open-air concert celebrating 450 years of Leiden University, on Sunday 6 July. This special jubilee edition of the Rapenburg Canal Concert will feature a unique orchestra made up of our students, staff and alumni, performing on a floating stage.
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Nieuwe medewerkers op de faculteit
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Humanities PhD Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale
- LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
- Una Europa: European Day of Languages
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Affective Iconicity of Tonemes in Standard Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Generics and stereotypes in discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Conference
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
- Language and the human past
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Sources and Strategies in Translating the Canonical Readings of the Qur’an: A case study of Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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OSINT: From Theory, Intelligence to Evidence
Conference
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Reflections on a year of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Why the Old Cold War Ended, a New Russia-West Cold War Developed, and the Russia-Ukraine Hot War began
Lecture
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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War in Europe
Conference
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Discontinuous Constituency and BERT: Two Case Studies of Dutch
Lecture
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Social interaction meets technology
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence from Shaoxing
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
- Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations