3,468 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Public website
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Inspiring: Henriëtte studied at a Chinese university for five months
When Henriëtte Hoffman was ten years old she was enthralled by The Last Emperor, a 1987 film about the twelfth and last emperor of the Manchu dynasty. It was an interest that eventually led to a five-month stay in Chengde in China for her Asian Studies research master’s programme. During her time in…
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Archaeology students explore visual culture with artworks
In a creative assignment as a part of the bachelor's course Visual Culture, students explored the impact and complexity of visual culture by means of visual culture. The resulting artworks were of such a high quality that it was decided to present these in an exhibition.
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The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Global Interactions welcomes five new postdocs in 2016
In November of last year Global Interactions made offers to five out of nearly 90 applicants for our grant-writing postdocs. We are pleased to announce that all have accepted and will be joining various Leiden institutes this year. The five postdocs are Katia Hay, Johannes Müller, Maria-Paz Peirano,…
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Karin Aalderink: ‘It is very satisfying to help students on their way’
Her love for China made her study Chinese and go on an exchange trip in her third year of studies. As an Outbound Student Coordinator at the Humanities International Office, Karin Aalderink (45) now supervises students who go abroad.
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programme
Last Friday was Master’s Open Day time once again. Students from home and abroad descended on Leiden and The Hague to find out more about our master’s programmes. Alongside the presentations, the information fairs gave them a good opportunity to ask any questions.
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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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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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and they were loving it. 'Yesterday evening we were completely covered in mud.'
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies
“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter of the world trade, it is where the youngest populations lives, with an enormous amount of creative energy, something that is often lacking in the northern…
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The lexico-semantic representation of words in the mental lexicon
PhD defence
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The pre-Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon
PhD defence
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Responding to accusations of national disloyalty. Confrontational maneuvering in Dutch plenary debates on EU issues
PhD defence
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Versatility of Phonemic Pitch in Affective Iconicity and Perceptual Reorganization
PhD defence
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The activation and selection of lexico-syntactic features in speech production
PhD defence
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Arguing against accusations of national disloyalty. Analyzing sequences of confrontational maneuvering in Dutch plenary debates on EU issues
PhD defence
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Beyond borders: Toward an archaeology of Middle America
Inaugural lecture
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Differential case-marking in Ecuadorian Siona
PhD defence
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The Communicative Life of Scientific Findings - CANCELLED!
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Publications
This is an incomplete list of scientific publications by students and staff of the Creative Intelligence & Technology MSc programme.
- Former guest researchers
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024)
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Towards a Polymaternal State: Sheinbaum, Stepmotherhood and the Mexican Presidency
Lecture
- Herta Mohr lecture
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
Lecture
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Speculative Sounds, Speculative Fictions Reading Group: Inaugural Meeting
Course
- Maartje Draak Seminars
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NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow 6th Annual Conference
Conference
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Celebrating 40 Years of the Dutch Studies programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Public Lecture | Praying with Books - Special Collections in the Spotlights
Lecture
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Venturing with the Humanities
Alumni event
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers
Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young researchers the opportunity to develop their ideas for a period of three years.
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The Meaning of Mandarin Repetition Adverb chóngxīn ‘again’
Lecture, CHiLL series
- Public graduation presentation, Lal Avgen
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Iamitives in the Caucasus: The grammaticalisation of ‘already’
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Mandarin shì and Vietnamese là: A Tale of Two Complementizers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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On Mandarin modals and the distribution of subjects
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Projected common ground and question bias: High negation polar questions in Mandarin
Lecture
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Dalle Prose all’italiano odierno: cinque secoli di lingua e stile Simposio per il cinquecentenario delle Prose della volgar lingua di Pietro
Conference, Symposium
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Convenience and community: How Armenians entered and settled in Venice and Amsterdam, 1650-1730
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
- Kick Off Meeting 24 May 2019
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Interpreters’ Note-Taking: an international writing system?
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks