News
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Footballer and journalist Nikki IJzerman: 'I want to dive into the background of the news' 16 November 2023
Give Nikki IJzerman a football and she’s happy. The midfielder was named Player of the Year by ADO Den Haag last season, as well as obtaining her mast...
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City Photographer for a year: ‘Unfortunately, I found that I’m not really very visual’ 09 November 2023
Julia 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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Artificial intelligence and clay tablets: not yet a perfect match 10 October 2023
Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are popping up more and more often about the possibilities offered by ar...
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Emeriti professors organise symposium: 'it’s a shame if our knowledge goes to waste' 09 October 2023
When professors become emeriti, it usually does not mean they stop working. The Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) will therefore soon have a first: a symp...
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New super server at humanities 25 September 2023
When you think of humanities, you may not immediately think of a new super server. Yet one has just been commissioned. University lecturer Jelena Prok...
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Children's Storybook ‘Sumak Kichwa Wawa’ 19 September 2023
What do you get when you combine traditional storytelling, new technology, and a whole lot of creative passion? Sumak Kichwa Wawa, an Andean children'...
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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us' 11 September 2023
Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive ...
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Olja Karmanova wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2023 11 September 2023
The Humanities Faculty Teaching Award has been won by Olja Karmanova. The Russian lecturer was presented with the award during the opening of the facu...
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like? 05 September 2023
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archive...
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit' 01 September 2023
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do w...
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world 11 August 2023
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (X...
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Why is that word there? Research on language structure completed 01 August 2023
Communication is the transmission of information. All day long we are busy explaining and making things clear to each other, but exactly how we do tha...
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers 06 July 2023
Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch R...
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language 03 July 2023
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach u...
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NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students 15 June 2023
Three PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities have successfully applied for funding from NWO for new PhD candidates. The three upcoming research...