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Benjamin Suchard receives Veni grant for research on Nabataean Aramaic as a spoken language12 August 2019Was Nabatean also a spoken language? And if so, for how long? These are just two questions that historical linguist Benjamin Suchard will address in h...
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First pan-African summer school for deaf academics01 August 2019Researchers from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the University of Ghana are organising the first-ever pan-African summer scho...
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholars25 July 2019Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen, and Maarten Mous will receive NWO Open Competition funding. This funding amounts to a maximum of 750,000 euros...
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These are the seven Veni laureates of Humanities17 July 2019
No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtaine...
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Detecting and comparing sign languages28 June 2019For his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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MA Translation awarded European Master’s in Translation label07 June 2019The MA Linguistic’s specialization in Translation has now been admitted to the prestigious European Masters in Translation (EMT) Network.
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CfP: Going Romance 201921 May 2019
The Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL) will organise Going Romance 2019 on November 28-29, 2019.
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’16 May 2019Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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Gijsbert Rutten reappointed as Director of Studies LUCL13 May 2019The Faculty Board has reappointed Gijsbert Rutten as the Director of Studies for the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
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IAFPA research grant for Willemijn Heeren and Lei He09 May 2019Willemijn Heeren has, together with dr. Lei He (Department of Linguistics, Tübingen & Center for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, Zürich), received a...
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Marian Klamer elected as member of KNAW29 April 2019Marian Klamer has been appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She is the Professor of Austronesian and Pa...
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW23 April 2019Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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CfA: Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (deadline May 8th)23 April 2019The next Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM2019) will be hosted by LUCL from September 1st until September 3rd 2019.
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LUCL runners have run the Singelloop08 April 2019Last Friday, the LUCL runners have run the Leiden Singelloop – this time joining forces with the rest of the Humanities team celebrating the 444th bir...
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Crowdfunding for Nieuwscheckers a huge success: ‘Fact checking matters more than ever’02 April 2019Nieuwscheckers, the fact-checking initiative at Leiden University, will check the claims made by politicians during the European elections. Lots of in...