3,192 search results for “russian and slavery linguistics” in the Public website
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A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contexts
A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of a democratic manifesto, is written by a large number of co-authors in a bold attempt to expand and deepen how democracy is studied and understood. Among…
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‘Studying English gave me a fertile humus layer of world literature’
Author Gustaaf Peek, who has been nominated for the Libris Literature Award, studied English Language and Literature in Leiden. ‘I completely submersed myself in literature during my studies, and the effects are still with me today.'
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This award offers promising young scientists the opportunity to develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christianity in Context.
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Eleven Vidi grants for Leiden
NWO has awarded eleven Leiden researchers a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. The research subjects range from Cicero and muscle dystrophy to the archaeology of bogs.
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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‘Let students see you’re passionate about your subject’
In line with tradition, at the opening of the academic year the LUS Teaching Prize will be presented to the University’s best teacher. Get to know the nominees. This week: Thijs Porck.
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The art of control without repression
How did the Arabs manage to maintain an empire based on Islamic principles for three hundred years? Arab expert Petra Sijpesteijn and her team will be examining this question over the coming five years, focusing on the correspondence of ordinary people. The research is being funded by an ERC Consolidator…
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Just kidding, only retweeting: Defence strategies for denying speaker commitment
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Language maintenance and revitalization across the world
Conference
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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How Do Populations Shape their Communal Languages?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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An evolutionary and behavioral take on interactionality in language
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Bringing Archives to Life: Exploring legacy materials, digital tools, and data utilization
Conference, Workshop
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From reconstructing to constructing languages: How I created two conlangs for a movie about the Neolithic Revolution
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- Methods in Dialectology Workshop Series 2023
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Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu southern Africa through lexical borrowing
Lecture, Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Meaning or what? The semantics of ChatGPT
Lecture
- Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Educational Innovation Hub
Since its founding, LUC has been a college of educational development and experimentation. Its mission statement identifies the college as “a site of innovation in pedagogy, curriculum design, and student well-being,” and it applies a student-centred approach to learning throughout its BA and BSc degree…
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Michiel and Jort: best friends, political rivals
With the Dutch general elections just around the corner, it’s not always easy when political differences exist within your circle of friends. How do you not lose sight of each other in political discussions? We asked best friends Jort Schaafsma and Michiel van der Velde, both students at Leiden Law…
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Two good agents could replace two mobile units
Peter Slort is the highly driven portfolio holder for Diversity with the Dutch National Police. Since November 2016 he has been spreading the importance of diversity throughout the police organisation.
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Report of the first post-doc meeting
A Personal Report by Matthew Hobson on the First Meeting of Post-doctoral Researchers at the Institute for History.
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes
Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Netherlands now demands a re-evaluation of Dutch colonial responsibilities. By recovering knowledge of these gains, this project will measure the wealth obtained…
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‘Dutch people should take human trafficking more seriously'
Citizens underestimate their role, but they really can make a difference, says legal specialist Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen. Combatting injustice is still the mission of this former National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence against Children. She will deliver the Cleveringa lecture…
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American presidents and their special relationship with Leiden
President John Quincy Adams studied in Leiden. His father, John, who was also president, also stayed here and received a lot of support from professor and publisher Johan Luzac. And how are presidents Bush and Obama linked to Leiden?
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Awapit Verbs
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Grammaticalized interaction: Sentence types and sentence-type modifiers in South-American languages
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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How contact affects social formulae: a case study of greeting routines in Southern African languages
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Priority modality, scalarity and modal concord in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Approaching Mandarin wh-ex situ: D-linking effect
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Four types of Internal Merge and the locus of Linearization
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Tussen taal en dialect
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Fifth LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture, LUCL Retired & Kicking series
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Generics and stereotypes in discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Conference
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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Language hierarchies: Individual and group perceptions of Subaltern languages in Mozambique
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Tocharian and Samoyed: On the question of Uralic substrate influence in Tocharian
PhD defence
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Cushitic influence on Bantu in East Africa
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
- Retired and Kicking series
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Nominalizations and their arguments in Iraqw
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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Cruces etymologicae: New etymologies of some old Latin words
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony
Conference, Workshop
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Counting events: Syntax and semantics of Chinese verbal classifiers
Lecture, CHiLL series