609 search results for “africa language” in the Student website
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Fábio Bonfim Duarte
Faculty of Humanities
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Emma Grootveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees
What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's in Russian and Eurasian Studies who regularly help the Ukrainian refugees. They act as the link between the refugees and aid workers at various reception…
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessie Sun
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize
Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
Lecture
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Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Rik van Gijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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ASCL Seminar: The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Africa's New Era of Austerity
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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International Mother Language Day
Conference
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Lecture
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corey Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
- Language Café: Improve your Dutch!
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Thijs Porck wins Faculty Teaching Prize
Thijs Porck, teacher at English Language and Culture, has won the faculty teaching prize. He was lauded for his enthousiasm, his creative ways of teaching, and his commitment to his students.
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Policy in Practice Heritage and the Question of Conversion
Students researchers’ research proposals are drawn up in consultation with D&I Expertise Office staff, taking account of what the latter find urgent and relevant. The results of the research are shared with D&I Expertise Office staff, even if subject to common ethical standards of ethnographic research…
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Archaeology & Society
Changing the future, by understanding the past. Join Archaeology & Society and broaden your horizon!
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
- Histories Connected
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Megan Vaughan: Africa in the time of Coronavirus. Biology, history and politics
Lecture