1,275 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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Student poster presentations: Linguistic Fieldwork B
Exhibition, poster session
- European Days of Languages
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Ainu Language Presentation
Workshop & exhibition
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Dimitris Kentrotis ZinelisFaculty of Humanities
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Hélène NutFaculty of Humanities
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Sandra KartenICLON
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Robin OomkesFaculty of Humanities
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Milan IsmangilFaculty of Humanities
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Leonie HenkesFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Nainunis Aulia IzzaFaculty of Humanities
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Nur AhmadFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Irina Ridzuan
Faculty of Humanities
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Zheyu ShangFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Carole TiberiusFaculty of Humanities
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Ian Shen
Faculty of Science
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.
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Extraction of linguistic atlas/dialect survey data
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Rint SybesmaFaculty of Humanities
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?
As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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COIn grants awarded to improve research infrastructure
Several FGW projects have received a COIn grant. This grant, ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 euros, is intended to improve research infrastructure, for example by purchasing software licences, applications, electronics or laboratory equipment.
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge
How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…
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Arend QuakFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander PleijterFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van Rooijen
Faculty of Humanities
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Astrid van AlemFaculty of Humanities
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SUP for Sustainability: students clean up the Leiden canals
Some thirty Leiden students balanced on SUP boards for the Supping for Sustainability Lustrum activity. Together with alumnus Merijn Tinga, better known as the Plastic Soup Surfer, they paddled their boards through the Leiden canals and waterways, fishing plastic waste out of the water.
- A Tale in Two Tongues
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'
University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Yitsz Neurink
Faculty of Humanities
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)