Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.

Our health is inextricably linked to the health of our living environment. Heatwaves, air pollution and urban hardening affect us all—but not everyone equally. How can we make Leiden healthier for people, animals and plants, and reduce health inequalities? What to expect: Mini-talks and round-table…

Outer space is rapidly emerging as a critical domain of geopolitical and military competition. Satellites support navigation, communications, financial systems, climate monitoring and much more. At the same time, space is increasingly seen as a strategic and military domain. Countries are investing…

Maarten Kossmann is a Professor of Berber Studies at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He works on Amazigh (Berber) languages, esp. language description; language history; oral literature. In addition, he is interested in its wider context, such as Amazigh relations to (sub)-Saharan languages…

Jiemiao Chen works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit. Her research explores dynamics in young people engaging with real-world and digital social environments, with a specific focus on gaze behaviour.

Débora Wanderley is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University and a member of the project Through the Hand, led by Victoria Nyst. She is a Deaf Brazilian with close connections to the Deaf community in different regions of Brazil. Débora has a true passion for studying, researching, and teaching…

Hilde Gunnink is a linguist specialized in the languages of Southern Africa. Her research focuses on documenting the synchronic structures of African languages, how these developed and changed over time, and what this can tell us about the human past.

The programme for the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary event The Knowledge Orchard has been announced. This anniversary event consists of more than 20 sessions aimed at providing you with practical next steps in your interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. Register now!

Andrea Richards is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Saskia Dunn is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, interested in the history of the Indigenous languages of South America and the people who spoke them. Her PhD project is entitled

Kate Bellamy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on P’urhepecha, a language isolate spoken in Michoacán, Mexico. She is particularly interested in its lexical semantics and morphological composition, as well as how it is used – and varies – in language contact…

Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations…

Liesbeth Kanis is Head of the Library, Documentation and Information (LDI) Department at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). She is in charge of collection, strategy, policy and operations.

Florian Helmecke is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Jesse Wichers Schreur is a lecturer teaching morphology, historical linguistics, Georgian and Ancient Greek⁠. In his research he focuses on languages of the Caucasus, in areas of language contact, areal typology and reconstruction⁠.

Early literacy development is a critical foundation for academic success, social participation, and lifelong learning. For children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), literacy acquisition is profoundly shaped by early access to language, the mode of instruction, and the pedagogical approaches employed…

Lydia Lois van de Fliert is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Gijsbert Rutten is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. His research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies.

Whether you are a Leiden researcher, teacher, support staff or administrator, there is something for everyone at the interdisciplinary event The Knowledge Orchard on Friday 28 November. We have picked out some of the highlights from the programme.