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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)05 December 2024In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a c...
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What does it mean to be Ukrainian?16 September 2024It is almost two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, but the conflict between the two countries has been going on for much longer. Central ...
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Twan Huys lecturer Journalism and New Media06 June 2024Television presenter and journalist Twan Huys will be a lecturer in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University from 1 September 2024.
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Dr. Naomi Truan delivers lunchtime talk at Austria Centre Leiden15 May 2024Dr. Naomi Truan, Assistant Professor of German Sociolinguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics delivered a lunchtime talk sponsored b...
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’15 April 2024Nancy Kula has been Professor of African Linguistics since 1 February. Now is a good time to hear more about her field of expertise and academic inter...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines03 January 2024Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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City Photographer for a year: ‘Unfortunately, I found that I’m not really very visual’09 November 2023Julia van Alem had never held a camera before, but she and her classmates were appointed as the City Photographer. ‘This project helped me learn how t...
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What is the future of translation software within the university?06 November 2023Is there a place for machine translation engines like Google Translate within the Faculty of Humanities? Associate professor Lettie Dorst’s new educat...
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From a second-year project to an academic paper: ‘It was such a cool opportunity’17 November 2022It does not happen very often that a research project for a second-year bachelor's course gets turned into a proper academic paper. But International ...
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns24 October 2022This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It...
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A day as an intern at the Leidsch Dagblad14 June 2022The Journalism and New Media study programme is celebrating its 20th anniversary. On the occasion of the anniversary, student Iris Kole gives a glimps...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers21 April 2022Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’21 April 2022The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'10 March 2022During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storyt...
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From vlogging to organising seminars: students of Italian put their skills into practice18 October 2021Do you gain enough practical experience in an academic language and culture study programme? Certainly, proved the bachelor students of Italian this s...