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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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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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Blog Post | The Diplomatic Elite, the People at Home and Democratic Renewal
‘Foreign policy’ may seem to the general public to be merely an official response to problems entering the nation from across the border. Yet the political reach of diplomacy has extended, and diplomats will have to find ways to engage more with home citizens, including those who feel sidelined and…
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Blog Post | An asset or a hassle? The public as a problem for public diplomats
It is undeniable that the public is central to the practice and study of public diplomacy. Indeed, this field is known as *public* diplomacy.
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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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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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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Leiden expands collaboration with Mexico
A delegation from Leiden University is currently visiting Mexico to initiate collaboration with universities and science funding bodies in the country and to extend and expand existing partnerships. Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker is confident enough already to call it a success.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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3 October University: big science for small people
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning something like, ‘You’re never too young to learn’), this year’s 3 October University was especially for children. Many parents came with their offspring to…
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The Uralic spread in northeastern Europe: bottlenecks and diversification
Lecture, Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology
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CANCELLED - Lecture by Jesús Olguin Martinez
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Using acoustics to determine ATR class in Boa
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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Lecture by George Walkden
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The value of languages (to their users and communities)
Conference
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The emergence of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire
Lecture
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Healthcare interpreting today and tomorrow
Lecture
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Carel ten CateFaculty of Science
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Politeness in Commercial Settings in Abidjan: A Study of Speech Acts in Context
Lecture, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies Series
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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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Splitting the imperative: what prohibitives tell us about the morpho-syntax of imperatives and negation
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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Retired and Kicking: An LUCL Symposium
Lecture, Retired & Kicking
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Prehistoric language contact in Southern Africaː Khoisan traces in modern Bantu languages
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Two Ways of Coding: Sentence Grammar vs. Interactive Grammar
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium 2023-2024
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The morphological encoding of Mandarin compounds using EEG techniques
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Interaction of co-morphologies in Berber
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Unconscious Listening: The Constitution of Genres of Listening in Buenos Aires
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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French, Standard Arabic and Amazigh: experiences and challenges in Morocco
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Challenging Native Speakerism in Language Ideologies: Insights on German from the perspective of French speakers
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Adult language learners benefit more from education when first language and additional language are similar
Lecture
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Pluriform prosody in the voice, face, and hands
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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The origin of Lithuanian DAUG ‘many’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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A theory of morphological productivity is essential in characterizing noun classes: Corpus and experimental evidence from Bantu
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Social interaction meets technology
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Cameroon: From colonial discriminatory decrees to forging new multilingual language policies
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Celtiberian and Lusitanian: Some Recent Findings
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Family, a racialized space
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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“If Naveeni akka can do it, you can do it too!”: Changing pragmatic conventions in the English-speaking Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community
Lecture
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Afroasiatic middle t- and its protean history
Lecture, Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology
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LUCDH Pilot Project Symposium 2024
Symposium and Workshops
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The spread of clicks throughout the Sotho lexicon: borrowing, insertion, and just a hint of regular sound change
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop