574 search results for “classical language” in the Staff website
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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'Curators are ordinary people who sometimes find themselves in extraordinary circumstances'
Ruurd Halbertsma combines his work as a curator and professor by special appointment with writing thrillers. 'I'd rather respond to the discussion on looted art this way than by joining talk shows.'
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Antje Wessels will investigate the world of fragments with NWO grant
Professor Antje Wessels has received an NWO Open Competition grant to research fragmentary texts.
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Education
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High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day
The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years were able to learn about different language studies at the Faculty of Humanities.
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Yumeng WangScience
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Arie VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Michaël OpgenhaffenFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Amos van BaalenFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Fei BaiFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefScience
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Michaël PeyrotFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Mert YazanScience
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Martijn LemmenFaculty of Humanities
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Jiawen QIScience
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'
During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storytelling afternoons. They hope to show parents that raising children multilingually is achievable as well as beneficial.
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence each other and each other's languages? Associate professor Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant of almost two million euros to unravel this 'web…
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Crossing the divide: learning about language policies and practices around the world
During the past year online meetings and lectures have become a firm feature of university life. One of the highlights of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics’ online activities has been the online seminar series ‘Language policy and practices in the Global North and South’ organised by guest…
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New language proficiency requirements for new PhD candidates (starting trajectory from 1 September 2024 onwards)
Research
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UMW Research Seminar: Book presentation "Classical Controversies"
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'
On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.
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A Special Territory: Visions of Hong Kong and its People
PhD defence
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Singing Techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der WeelFaculty of Humanities
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Jiang WuFaculty of Humanities
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Carel SmithFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid