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Digitisation: ignoring it is no longer an option12 August 2021‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challeng...
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems16 July 2021The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scrip...
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'13 July 2021In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this thi...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’09 July 2021How 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 world08 July 2021During 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 disinformation05 July 2021Dutch 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 circles28 June 2021In 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 answer25 June 2021What 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 Prize04 June 2021Postdoc 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 other31 May 2021The 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 loud03 May 2021Whispp, 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 nature30 April 2021What 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 Linguistics06 April 2021After 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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Positive evaluations after audits of research master’s programmes01 April 2021Last semester, the research master's programmes of African Studies, Area studies, Asian Studies, Classics and Ancient Civilizations, History, Latin Am...
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Gea Hakker: ‘We aim to be the gold standard of language learning’08 March 2021The Academic Language Centre (ATC) is one of the cornerstones of Leiden University. Director Gea Hakker explains how this organisation is providing qu...