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The Conflict in Ukraine: One Year On
Conference
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Film screening - Fireside Peace Chats
Arts and culture
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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Speeddate Humanities
Study information
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this impressive report of the work of this underwater archaeologist.
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Language Analysis in the Context of Asylum in the Netherlands, with a Focus on Africa
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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The position of Lydian within Anatolian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference, Workshops, masterclass and keynote lecture
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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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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 | Foreign Ministries’ Responses to Growing Complexity, and How to Study Them
Christian Lequesne introduces the upcoming special issue on Ministries of Foreign Affairs in this blog post.
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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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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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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023
The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered this year’s LUCAS Public Engagement Award to Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten.
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De ‘just in time’-mentaliteit werkt niet als het oorlog wordt
Moderne oorlogsvoering kent geen grenzen. Dreigingen zijn steeds vaker digitaal. Promovendus Annelies van Vark stelt dat Scandinavië beter voorbereid is op gevaar. Zij pleit voor een sterkere rol van de krijgsmacht, herinvoering van de dienstplicht en paraatheid – óók bij burgers.
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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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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…
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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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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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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the European refugee crisis
Who is welcome as a refugee, and who is not? And how is that decided? What role do humanitarian organisations play in the debate surrounding refugees? Doctoral candidate Teuntje Vosters is investigating the influence Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) exert on European policy on migration and ref…
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Four questions about the new track in Crisis and Security Management
Intelligence and National Security is the new specialisation in MSc Crisis and Security Management (CSM). It will start next September 2021. Do you want to know more about this track?
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LLRC Multilingualism in the Language Classroom Roundtable
Debate, Roundtable LLRC Event
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Language diversity, education, and activism in multilingual Mexico
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Sloppy indexicals are not fake
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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[CANCELLED] A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence
Lecture, CHiLL series
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From Traditional Dialects to Modern Dialects
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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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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Setting the Standard
PhD defence
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Associated Motion in East Asian Languages, with a focus on Chinese and Japanese
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Annotation reliability as a preliminary for corpus research
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Affective Iconicity of Tonemes in Standard Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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NITS 2023
Conference
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialects
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Studying the historical roots of sign languages – methodological issues
Lecture
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Particles and clitics in Bemba verbs
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars