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• TNO, HUM and the ISSC are jointly developing an ethical chatbot: ‘It is important that communication is tailored to the user’ News - 25 November 2025

  The ISSC's ICT helpdesk receives dozens of questions from staff and students every day. A collaboration between TNO, LUCL and the ISSC aims to determine whether a specially designed chatbot could provide support in this area.

• Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees News - 6 April 2022

  What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's in Russian and Eurasian Studies who regularly help the Ukrainian refugees. They act as the link between the refugees and aid workers at various reception…

• 33 sayings highlight multilingual The Hague News - 25 March 2019

  Since March 5th, the road between Holland Spoor Station and the old city centre of The Hague (also called the “Loper Oude Centrum”) features 33 sayings in various languages that are spoken in The Hague – many of which are taught here at LUCL.

• Nabataean Aramaic Research project

  A living language?

• Manioc roots Research project

  Prehistory of Amazonia seen from the kitchen

• Live blog as genre in pursuit of credibility Research output

  On the 3rd of April, Sebastiaan van der Lubben successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Sebastiaan on this achievement!

• Modern Dutch Literature (MA)

  During the master’s programme in Modern Dutch Literature at Leiden University you will learn to scientifically analyse literary texts, as well as other Dutch cultural texts, such as those found in hiphop songs and diaries.

• Dutch Discourse Studies (MA)

  In the master’s programme in Dutch Discourse Studies at Leiden University you will study rhetoric and argumentation, and you will specifically focus on research into pragmatics, stylistics, genre research and persuasion.

• Members LIBC

  The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition is a network that stimulates interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and expertise on topics related to brain and cognition and focuses on science valorisation and outreach. Its research members come from a broad and diverse spectrum of specialized academic…

• 47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47) Event - 12 December 2025

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• Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association News - 22 June 2023

  Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…

• University history complete: Otterspeer presents fourth volume News - 8 February 2021

  At the Dies Natalis Willem Otterspeer, Professor Emeritus of University History, presented the fourth and final volume of Groepsportret met Dame, his series on the history of Leiden University. De 'Strategie van de Aanpassing' covers the period 1876-1975. Otterspeer talked about his book in a podcast…

• This Time for Africa! series Event
• Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn News - 22 February 2021

  Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…

• Major European subsidy for Nadine Akkerman and detective work into old, handwritten documents News - 10 December 2019

  Nadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English manuscripts. Akkerman: ‘Working with handwritten texts and unravelling their mysteries is one of my passions, and it’s especially rewarding when this work…

• Authority in conversation: from linguistic norms to moral order Event - 21 January 2025

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• ‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’ News - 7 June 2010

  ‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty, I prefer it that way.’ She is already brimming with ideas about what she will do with her Spinoza Prize.

• Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere: An example from the deaf people of Bissau Event - 19 February 2026

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  Bahareh Soohani Staff Member Documentprocessing & Metadata

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  Tirza Schipper Language skills lecturer

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  Reden Valencia Libo-on Foreign Language Teacher

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  Bertijn van der Steenhoven Lecturer

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  Arno van 't Hoog Postdoc

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• School for Digital Deaf Studies HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  The School for Digital Deaf Studies 2025 is a hybrid school consisting of one week school in person in Ghana (15 - 24 August), followed by a one week school online later this year. It aims for the capacity building needed to expand academic research and education activities in digital Deaf studies,…

• The story of Eres A Humanities degree opens doors

• Why Leiden University Linguistics (specialisation) (MA)

  Leiden University offers ambitious students the latest knowledge and the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.

• Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 3:

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  Jurriaan Witteman Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant News - 23 October 2025

  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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  Rosa Maria de Lima Ribeiro PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities