News
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App on Gender Equality Launched at FGW: 'We have to do it together' 14 February 2024
Male scientists owe their position to their brilliance, women to their hard work. Or do they? The Equalista app helps staff and students at the Facult...
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you' 08 February 2024
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, ...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines 03 January 2024
Supercomputer 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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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most 11 December 2023
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult...
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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...