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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...
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Students meet each other from a distance 20 November 2020
For 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 language 26 October 2020
On 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 2020
Register 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 Dutch 05 October 2020
As 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 2020
Since 2017 guest researcher Gerrit de Wit has been working together with Congolese linguists and the Boa community to develop the oral Boa language in...
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Anneloes van Iwaarden: 'I think writing is one of the most fun things to do.' 28 September 2020
Anneloes van Iwaarden works part-time as a communications manager at the Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). She grew up in England, Switzerland and the Ne...
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Royal distinction for linguist Ingrid Tieken 11 September 2020
Professor of Sociohistorical Linguistics Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 11 Septembe...
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Celebrating 50 years of African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden 07 September 2020
Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University, looks back on the 50th edition of the Colloquium of African Languages and Linguis...
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‘Right now, it's an enormous achievement just to pass a subject' 17 August 2020
When the corona epidemic broke out, Nuno Atalaia, a teacher of Portuguese, ‘democratised’ his lectures. He is one of the three nominees for the LUS Te...
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Ingrid Tieken spellbound by languages of The Hague 11 August 2020
Linguist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade retired in July, but is pressing on regardless with her languages in The Hague project. An online tour of her H...
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Funding for three new Humanities’ PhD candidates 04 August 2020
Three new PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities will receive funding from the Programme Office Sustainable Humanities and NWO. The aim of the gr...
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Podcast: this is how Dutch sounded 1000 years ago 25 June 2020
How did Dutch sound 1000 years ago? This is a question that linguist Peter-Alexander Kerkhof has been pondering for some time already. He recently man...