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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize04 June 2021Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children,...
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other31 May 2021The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden Univers...
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Whispering out loud03 May 2021Whispp, a Leiden-based speech technology start-up, is developing an app to help people who stutter express themselves more freely. Among those working...
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Islands show human influence on nature30 April 2021What is the impact of humans on nature? In Science an article appeared in which researchers try to give an answer to that question. Biogeographer and ...
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In the Spotlight: Summer School in Languages and Linguistics06 April 2021After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguis...
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Gea Hakker: ‘We aim to be the gold standard of language learning’08 March 2021The Academic Language Centre (ATC) is one of the cornerstones of Leiden University. Director Gea Hakker explains how this organisation is providing qu...
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’09 February 2021A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguis...
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire11 January 2021Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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Lisa Cheng appointed new Scientific Director of LUCL14 December 2020As of the 1st of January 2021, Lisa Cheng, Professor of General Linguistics, will be the next Scientific Director of the Leiden University Centre for ...
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‘Academic research necessary to highlight and improve the circumstances of journalists under threat’03 December 2020Jaap de Jong, Professor of Journalism and New Media, is one of the organisers of the Academic Conference (9 December) as part of the World Press Freed...
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Students meet each other from a distance20 November 2020For a lot of students, the covid crisis means that a sense of community is hard to find during their studies. Lettie Dorst, university lecturer of tra...
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The Golden Dawn verdict and the inescapable element of language26 October 2020On 7 October, a court in Athens, Greece, convicted leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn party as directing a criminal organization. Marina Terkourafi,...
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‘Safety of Journalism – more urgent than ever’26 October 2020Register now for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 digital edition (9 – 10 December 2020)!
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Gijsbert Rutten new Professor of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch05 October 2020As of 1 July, Gijsbert Rutten is Professor by special appointment of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch at Leiden University. Rutten, who also works...
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‘Working together on the basis of mutual respect is enriching and satisfying’29 September 2020Since 2017 guest researcher Gerrit de Wit has been working together with Congolese linguists and the Boa community to develop the oral Boa language in...