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Reading list - The Rise of China and the New Global Order
In the past half a century, China has transformed from an underdeveloped and inward-looking country to a major player in world politics. The country asserts itself more boldly on the world stage; not only in relation to nearby countries and places such as Taiwan, Japan, and other countries that share…
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The launch of a new era: Leiden and the James Webb telescope (part II)
After 25 years, December will finally see the launch of the long-awaited James Webb space telescope. Leiden astronomers are watching with great excitement: not only were they involved in the construction of important instruments on board, the telescope will also reveal many new secrets of the universe,…
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Alumna Anouk van Oss wants a sustainable fashion industry
Fashion is a common thread running through alumna Anouk van Oss’s life. From a young age, fashion was a way for her to express herself. That was until she discovered how problematic the fashion industry is. She decided to focus on sustainability in her studies and hopes at some point to become a sustainability…
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing that scientists are driven by ambition, hope and faith. She is linking Vrouw Vennepolder, a polder in Zuid-Holland, to the UN climate goals.
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ILS conference on the European Union as a Global Actor in Maritime Security
On Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2018, the Europa Institute organized a conference within the framework of ‘Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS): Policing the High Seas’ and in cooperation with four Interest Groups of the European Society of International Law. The event brought together representatives…
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AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
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The policing of interracialized sex in France (1954-1979)
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Interdisciplinary aspirations and disciplinary archives: Losing and finding John M. Weatherby’s Soo language data
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
- Public graduation presentation, Lal Avgen
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The ‘evolution’ of the Innateness Hypothesis for language
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Tenth European Conference of Iranian Studies ECIS 10
Conference
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Dependency resolution beyond morphosyntax: psycholinguistic and computational insights on verbal control in Spanish (and Galician)
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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Unconscious Listening: The Constitution of Genres of Listening in Buenos Aires
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Pronoun interpretation and processing in Dutch and German
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Language use and language attitudes among Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Dative plural endings of the o- and ā-stems in Ancient Greek and a potential early syncretism between Instrumental and Dative in Mycenaean Greek
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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Prehistoric language contact in Southern Africaː Khoisan traces in modern Bantu languages
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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A theory of morphological productivity is essential in characterizing noun classes: Corpus and experimental evidence from Bantu
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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From Traditional Dialects to Modern Dialects
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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CPP Colloquium “A cultural theory of deliberation”
Lecture
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Pluriform prosody in the voice, face, and hands
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Annotation reliability as a preliminary for corpus research
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Adult language learners benefit more from education when first language and additional language are similar
Lecture
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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50 years of the Academic Language Centre: plus ça change?
That's just learning parrot-fashion. This was the argument with which the proposal to establish a language lab at Leiden University was rejected in 1962. But six years later, the language lab was launched. And now the Academic Language Lab is celebrating its 50-year anniversary.
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Call for papers: Arabic and its Alternatives
Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920–1950)
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Young Academy Leiden: bursting with youthful zeal
Great things are expected of Young Academy Leiden. The first 13 members of this society for young researchers will provide the Executive Board with fresh ideas on teaching, research, policy and how to connect with society. The researchers themselves will benefit from the contact with their peers from…
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Torino: From food to demands
“Neighborhood solidarity cannot compensate the absence of the State: a response from the local administration is needed”
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Leiden2022: European City of Science
Leiden2022 is a 365-day science festival for everyone who has a sense of curiosity. Scientists from Leiden University will be making a major contribution. On 10 November, Leiden2022 presented the programme for the coming year, when Leiden will be European City of Science.
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SAILS Newsletter June 2021
Dear reader, Right now you are reading the very first SAILS newsletter. In this newsletter, you will find news, events and meet the researchers of the SAILS program. If you want to be updated about our events and receive the newsletter in the future, join the SAILS mailinglist! If you know anyone…
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Mathematics, medicine and teaching
Mathematician Stéphanie van der Pas, winner of the C.J. Kok Jury Award for her PhD thesis in 2017, divides her time between research and education, and between pure mathematics and practical application.
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A thousand participants in Dies for alumni
The Dies Natalis for alumni on 11 February was an online event. Almost 1,000 alumni tuned in to Bastiaan Rijpkema’s interview with Annetje Ottow, who had then been President of Leiden University’s Executive Board for all of three days. Alumni are part of her portfolio on the Executive Board.
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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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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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Two Ways of Coding: Sentence Grammar vs. Interactive Grammar
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium 2023-2024
- Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
- OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
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Towards a Unified Theory for Noun Class Agreement in Grassfields Bantu
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Demonstratives: spatial, interactional, and sensory perspectives
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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Challenging Native Speakerism in Language Ideologies: Insights on German from the perspective of French speakers
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Just kidding, only retweeting: Defence strategies for denying speaker commitment
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
- Book Presentation: Building the League of Nations and the International Labour Organisation
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.