802 search results for “leiden africa language” in the Student website
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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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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Michael Meffert
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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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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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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Alex Reuneker
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga Lundysheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jiang Wu
Faculty of Humanities
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Matthew Sung
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de Haar
Faculty of Humanities
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Martin Kroon
Faculty of Humanities
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Tina Cambier-Langeveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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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.
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
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Diversity and inclusion in your studies
We provide more than 125 courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level that offer the chance to study diversity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Agnieszka Kazimierczuk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Fábio Bonfim Duarte
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Kaya Peerdeman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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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