2,862 search results for “russian and slave linguistics” in the Public website
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Human Frontier Science Program award for Katharina Riebel
An international research team consisting of Katharina Riebel as leading PI and two international collaborators were awarded a Human Frontier Science Program grant for their proposal ‘Seeing voices’: the role of multimodal cues in vocal learning.
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Open Day: 'What's the right degree programme for me?'
Leiden's city centre, bathed in autumn sunshine and teeming with visitors. On 14 October, several thousands of students and their parents came to visit the University's Open Day. We spoke to a number of students at the information fair in the Pieterskerk; each of them had their own questions, doubts…
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Students help Facebook in battle against fake news
Leiden master's students of Journalism and New Media are going to help Facebook bar fake news from the social medium.
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Male birds may sing, but females are faster at discriminating sounds
It may well be that only male zebra finches can sing, but the females are faster at learning to discriminate sounds. Leiden researchers publish their findings in the scientific journal Animal Behaviour.
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Student orchestra: ‘I love a bit of power’
The Dutch Student Orchestra is performing at Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden’s concert hall, on 11 February. Several Leiden students have sacrificed many a free hour to the rehearsals. Days before the big performance we present them with three dilemmas.
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Two AI Grants for Leiden University
NWO (the Dutch Research Council) has granted more than 10 million euros for five human-centered AI research projects (2.1M€ each). Leiden University participates in two of these five research proposals, which are called ELSA labs.
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Nieuwscheckers: FVD politicians amplify anti-Semitism on Twitter
Politicians from Forum voor Democratie (FVD) regularly retweet anti-Semitic accounts. They therefore promote players from a social media network in which anti-Semitism is commonplace. This ranges from conspiracy theories about George Soros to hate speech about Jewish people drinking children’s blood.…
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Come to the qualifying round of Famelab on 16 February in Leiden
Which two scientists will present their research best in three minutes? It could be the one with the most supporters.
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NWO Veni for Linda Geven for research into false confessions
An NWO Veni application by Linda Geven, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, has been honoured. She will spend the next three years conducting research into false confessions in police interrogations.
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Greater focus on pre-Islamic heritage
War and terrorism overshadow interest in the pre-Islamic heritage of the Arabic peninsula. The new Leiden Centre for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims to make the general public more aware of the ancient history of this region.
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The wide spectrum of research at Leiden
To give a better idea of the research at Leiden University, a new website has been launched that lists the University’s institutes together with the disciplines that they cover. But the institutes also work together intensively.
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Manon Uphoff to be Leiden University’s new ‘writer in residence’
The author Manon Uphoff from Utrecht will be Leiden University’s new ‘writer in residence’ from autumn 2025. As the writer in residence, Uphoff will contribute to several courses on writing offered by the BA Dutch Language and Culture programme.
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Late Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Entanglements of Venezuela with the Caribbean
This research project is an integral part of its mother-programme NEXUS1492 ERC Synergy Project directed by Prof. Corinne Hofman. Overarchingly, it aims at understanding and bridging from the archaeological perspective the late pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Southeastern Caribbean macroregion…
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Towards a functionalist theory of language contact. With special reference to Romani, and with implications for the architecture of the language
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Stancetaking and morphosyntactic variation: Insights from two case studies of complementizer (that)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Lexical Tone in Word Activation
PhD defence
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Orangutans and the Borders of Humanity in the Long Eighteenth Century
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
- POPTalk: Mapping Slavery Walk & Potluck Spring Dinner
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
- Leiden Translation Talks
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Labeling reduced clauses in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
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Evaluative Adjectives in Igbo Language: Insights from ezigbo and ajọ
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Third LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture, Retired & Kicking
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Second 'Retired and Kicking' symposium
Lecture, Retired and Kicking
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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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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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Language Policy in Africa - the why and how of a new journal
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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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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Guest lecture by Sjef Barbiers
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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Co-registration of eye movements and fixation-related potentials to study human cognition
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Dependency resolution beyond morphosyntax: psycholinguistic and computational insights on verbal control in Spanish (and Galician)
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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Telling Tales in Iraqw
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Waves Across the Atlantic: Reevaluating the Genetic Position of Faroese
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Size/flavor correlations in the grammar of attitudes and modals
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Armenian across the millennia: seminar on the occasion of Rasmus Thorsø's PhD defence
Lecture
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Italic, Celtic, and what lies beneath: Talks on the occasion of Andrew Wigman's defense
Conference
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Special Session of the Nietzsche Research Seminar with Ekaterina Poljakova
Lecture
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
- LACG Meetings