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Open Day: ‘The programme is what's most important'
More than 10,000 school-leavers and their parents visited the Open Day at Leiden University on 25 February. The prospective students were given information about the different programmes in Leiden and The Hague. 'I'm curious to hear about their experiences.'
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research
Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process large quantities of data. This is one reason why the University data centre will be extended and updated. ‘Datamining means we can get a better picture…
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Lil' Scientist
The school curriculum is often geared towards teaching the next generation of scientists, but in many ways, children already are natural scientists. Their curiosity pushes them to constantly question the world, and their creativity drives them to novel conclusions. However, too many children believe…
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Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’
From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Leiden’ institute KITLV-Jakarta. What does this institute do and why is Indonesia important to the University?
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Why do a Master Honours Challenge? ‘Step away from your own square millimetre’
Learning how to work with people from different disciplines, that’s what Master Honours Challenges are all about. In teams, students address a challenge for an organisation or society as a whole. Two participants tell us what made their course stand out. ‘It was at times uncomfortable, but exhilarat…
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‘Right now, it's an enormous achievement just to pass a subject'
When the corona epidemic broke out, Nuno Atalaia, a teacher of Portuguese, ‘democratised’ his lectures. He is one of the three nominees for the LUS Teaching Prize. What is it about this approach that appeals to students?
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Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.
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HiSoN Summer School 2024
Conference
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Positioning in contrast: insights from a contrastive discourse analysis of positioning practices in online contexts
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Leiden Tolkien Talks: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Anticipation of “The War of the Rohirrim”
Lecture
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Wherefore Phonology?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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Children's Response to Humor in Translated Poetry
PhD defence
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The smoes under scrutiny
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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Woodworkers and farmers 3000 years ago: transitions from the Rigveda to the Atharvaveda
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Bantu Syntax and Information Structure Conference
Conference
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Contact effects in intonation: Spanish and Quichua in Argentina
Lecture
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Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
- OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
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Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implications
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
- Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
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Why do multilingual children mix their languages?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium 2023-2024
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Discourse in contact: an areal study of wish formulae in Daghestan
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Developing Sesotho as medium of instruction at tertiary level - challenges and opportunities
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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The Unseen Saints of Islam: Sufi Ritual and Religious Worldmaking in Java
PhD defence
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Book Presentation: Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Compliments in Talk Shows in France and Iran
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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Kick-off meeting Health Humanities
Lecture
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What does word stress tell us about morphological structure?
Lecture
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The 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
Conference
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LUCDH Digital Skills Winter Week 2024
Symposium and Workshops
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Interdisciplinary research and teaching at Leiden University
Many of the challenges of our time are too complex to be resolved within the confines of a single discipline. Leiden University is a broad-based university where an incredible number of research fields converge. That makes us the ideal breeding ground for, and practitioners of, interdisciplinary research…
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Institute for History
The Leiden University Institute for History is responsible for the main part of the historical research carried out at Leiden University. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope.
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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Unde Venisti? The Prehistory of Italic through its Loanword Lexicon
PhD defence
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
- Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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Digital Thesauri as Semantic Treasure Troves
PhD defence
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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Workshop ‘Disinformation and Human Rights in Context’
Conference
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Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questions
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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LTP Colloquium "Evidence generation across the QUALitative-QUANTitative spectrum"
Lecture