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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’ 09 July 2021
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate...
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Crossing the divide: learning about language policies and practices around the world 08 July 2021
During the past year online meetings and lectures have become a firm feature of university life. One of the highlights of the Leiden University Centre...
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European support for Dutch-Flemish project in the fight against disinformation 05 July 2021
Dutch and Flemish partners, including Leiden University, are joining forces as the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) in the fight against the ...
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Pioneer Christiaan Weijts: clandestine novelist in literary circles 28 June 2021
In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and co...
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How do you give a memorable presentation? Martijn Wackers has the answer 25 June 2021
What do people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama have in common? They have mastered the art of public speaking. There are plenty of books o...
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize 04 June 2021
Postdoc 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 other 31 May 2021
The 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 loud 03 May 2021
Whispp, 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 nature 30 April 2021
What 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 Linguistics 06 April 2021
After 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 2021
The 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 2021
A 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 extraordinaire 11 January 2021
Rector 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 LUCL 14 December 2020
As 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 2020
Jaap 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...