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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’09 February 2021A 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 extraordinaire11 January 2021Rector 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 LUCL14 December 2020As 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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Work in the time of coronavirus: ‘I hope that conferences will continue to be online and free’04 December 2020How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? That is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series. Criminologist Meike de B...
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‘Academic research necessary to highlight and improve the circumstances of journalists under threat’03 December 2020Jaap 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 distance20 November 2020For 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 language26 October 2020On 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 2020Register 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 Dutch05 October 2020As 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 2020Since 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 2020Anneloes 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 Tieken11 September 2020Professor 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 Leiden07 September 2020Maarten 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 2020When 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 Hague11 August 2020Linguist 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...