1,482 search results for “cultural history” in the Staff website
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Turkic Patronage in Central Asia: Patterns and Challenges
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
- European Days of Languages
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
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Corrie Bakels -
Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sarah WolffFaculty of Humanities
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments
Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Conference: The Poetics of Olfaction, 1500–1800
Conference
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Toward an AI Attuned to Dissent and Consensus in Historical Events: Evidence from Wikipedia
Lecture
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans
Lecture
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The Muslim Woman Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
PhD defence
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Introducing: Pichayapat Naisupap
Pichayapat Naisupap recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidate. Below, he introduces himself.
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
To celebrate the formal launch of the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC, 莱顿华语酷儿文献收藏), promote Chinese queer studies scholarship, and raise the visibility of Chinese queer history and culture, the LCQC steering committee will hold a workshop on 24-25 July 2025, under the aegis of the Leiden University…
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure
In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research on Chinese infrastructure. ‘It is great that it is also possible to develop large projects in the social sciences…
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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In Search of a Homo Economicus Javanicus. From J. H. Boeke to Clifford Geertz.
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.
- Sign Languages and Deaf People (SL&D) lecture series
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Open House Faculty of Archaeology
Festival, Open House
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Analysis of clustering algorithms and performance evaluation metrics applied to samples of the Tell El-Yahudiya ware typology
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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European integration and the United States: Have we reached the end of the "Cold War aberration"?
Lecture, European Union Seminar / CHEI Seminar
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Leiden University positive about coalition plans, with a few concerns
Dutch universities have responded positively to the new coalition plans. Investments in education, research and innovation will be prioritised, and the stringent cutbacks proposed by the previous cabinet will be reversed. Optimism is the order of the day in Leiden, though caution is advised.
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Introducing: Rafal Matuszewski
Rafal Matuszewski is an assistant professor at the Institute for History since 1 August 2023. Below he introduces himself.
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What could bring about change in Iran?
With ongoing protests across Iran, many are asking whether the regime is on the brink of collapse. Three Leiden experts share their perspectives.
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy
Lecture