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Mili Gabrovšek wins Education Award 201504 September 2015
English Language and Culture lecturer Mili Gabrovšek has won the Education Award 2015. In the report, the jury praised Gabrovšek's humor and enthusias...
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour28 July 2015
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in...
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Veni grant Lucien van Beek23 July 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Lucien van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibilit...
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Language gets people talking08 May 2015Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it ...
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury31 March 2015
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LU...
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Learning a language is a staggering task26 March 2015
To properly understand how babies absorb a language we need to study the process from a number of different perspectives, linguist Claartje Levelt arg...
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Introducing Lucien van Beek03 March 2015
Lucien van Beek studied Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, focusing on Ancient Greek. As of February 2015, Van Beek will be p...
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Language as a time machine06 February 2015About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who...
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Thijs Porck wins Faculty Teaching Prize04 September 2014
Thijs Porck, teacher at English Language and Culture, has won the faculty teaching prize. He was lauded for his enthousiasm, his creative ways of tea...
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The Oegstgeest bowl and the bones of a giant king mentioned in Beowulf23 July 2014Recently, archeologists of Leiden University made an excavation in Oegstgeest, where they found a unique silver bowl from the first half of the sevent...
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Roberta D'Alessandro granted Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia04 June 2014
Professor Roberta D’Alessandro, Chair of Italian Language and Culture at the Leiden University, has been awarded one of Italy’s highest honors: she is...
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers10 July 2013
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have bee...
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‘Indonesian archives are a goldmine for historians’20 June 2013
It's a race against time for Charles Jeurgens, Leiden Professor in Archival Studies. He is investigating how the colonial authorities created the arch...
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2012 Vrije Competitie Grants for two LUCL members23 January 2012
LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.