776 search results for “italian language and cultural” in the Student website
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Marcello BonsangueScience
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Carmen Sylvia SpiersFaculty of Humanities
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Student maps Chinese language variation
When Daan van Esch, master’s student in Chinese Studies, travelled through China last summer, he noticed that he often did not understand what the inhabitants of the different villages and cities were talking about. There turned out to be huge differences within the language. He decided to map this…
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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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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20 years later, she is starting a research project on the kinship of the language Awapit with the Quechua language that was spread by the Incas.
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Summer Schools and Minor
Education
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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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Approval and application
Approval and application
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Transitioning to a Sustainable Society
Conference
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Dennis BosFaculty of Humanities
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Kai HebelFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sander HölsgensFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Areti LeventiFaculteit Archeologie
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Elsa CharletyFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nicky SchreuderFaculteit Archeologie
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Andrea RagragioFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Angelo RomanoFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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James McGrailFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Floris KeehnenFaculteit Archeologie
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van WijkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Patrick DegryseFaculteit Archeologie
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Simon WillmettsFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Vincent NiochetFaculteit Archeologie
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Elizabeth CecilFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculteit Archeologie
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Jasper van der SteenFaculty of Humanities
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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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Daybreak in Gaza - Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Debate, BookTalk
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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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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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'
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Sophie van RomburghFaculty of Humanities
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Suzan van de VeldeFaculteit Archeologie
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
Conference
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education