News
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Lecturers in the spotlight: the Education Award nominees07 August 2017Every year, Humanities students can nominate their favourite lecturer for the Humanities Education Award. Traditionally, the winner of the award will ...
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Sharing platform for language teachers launched09 June 2017The new Language Learning Resource Centre was launched today at Leiden University. The LLRC is an initiative to unite all language teaching profession...
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Laura Migliori receives scholarship from KNIR07 June 2017Laura Migliori receives a research scholarship from the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR, Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome).
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Michaël Peyrot elected member of the Young Academy of Europe07 June 2017Michaël Peyrot is elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE: http://yacadeuro.org).
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Jiang Wu receives NWO scholarship for PhD project07 June 2017
Jiang Wu receives an NWO scholarship for his PhD project "Tracking Malay migration history through the genealogy of vernacular Malayic varieties". His...
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Large Vidi subsidies for 5 humanities scholars01 June 20175 talented Leiden humanities scholars have received a Vidi research subsidy of 800.000 euros to set up or expand their own line of research.
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3 Humanities scholars receive Special Recognition Award01 June 2017The international World Cultural Council (WCC) has awarded Nadine Akkerman, Victoria Nyst and Alicia Schrikker with Special Recognition Awards given t...
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The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has chosen Prof. Dr. Lisa Cheng as a member16 May 2017The prominent members of KNAW, are chosen on their academic and scientific achievements and the membership is for life. The academic members will be ...
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First Campus Fryslân -Science prize for Bosma08 May 2017
Evelyn Bosma, researcher at the Fryske Akademy and LUCL, is the winner of the first science prize Campus Fryslân.
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Maarten Kossmann appointed as professor for Berber Studies01 April 2017The University Executive Board has appointed Maarten Kossmann as professor for Berber Studies as of April 1, 2017. The Leiden University Centre for Li...
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Jurriaan Witteman to receive the Keetje Hodshon Prijs31 March 2017The KHMW (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) has decided to grant the Keetje Hodshon Prijs voor Taalwetenschappen to LUCL’s Jurri...
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Janet Grijzenhout appointed as Professor English Linguistics14 March 2017Dr. Janet Grijzenhout (Universität Konstanz) was appointed Professor English Linguistics and will be working at the Leiden University Centre for Lingu...
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Jenny Doetjes appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation03 March 2017Dr Jenny Doetjes was appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation in February. During her professorship Dr. Doetjes wishes to focus on char...
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Students help Facebook in battle against fake news02 March 2017Leiden master's students of Journalism and New Media are going to help Facebook bar fake news from the social medium.
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Barend Beekhuizen wins the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize06 February 2017
Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has won the 2016 AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) dissertation prize!