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Art direction & design van een campagne die de faculteit Humanities intern en extern met trots een gezicht geeft. Fotografische portretten, geïnspireerd door portretten uit de Renaissance. Deel 1: professoren. fotografie Aatjan Renders
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Ellen van WoldePaul StephensonBonnie Schwartz Antal van den Bosch Jan Kok
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Naar taal kijken door de ogen van een computer is net zoiets als naar de hemel kijken met de Hubble- telescoop
Multilingualism is my window into the human mindLanguage is
much more effective with gestures
How is the unimaginable made imaginable?
Looking at language through the eyes of a computer is like looking at the sky with the Hubble telescope
Life is a lot like a game of goose
ganzenbord
I work with large data files containing reconstructions of
the life choices and family relationships of a great number
of ‘random’ people from the past. I use these data to study
patterns and developments in health, partner choice, family
formation, migration and career paths, and how these are
related. Studying past lives is a great way of shedding light on
the interrelatedness of individual options and decisions, local
circumstances and long-term societal changes.
Jan KokProfessor of Comparative history of the course of life MA and PhD University Amsterdam; Senior Researcher Virtual Knowledge
Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences; Guest lecturer Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven.
www.ru.nl/humanities/kok
During conversation we constantly use meaningful bodily
actions, such as gesturing with our hands. As such we convey
meaning relevant to what we are saying and most of the time
mean much more than what we are saying.
To what extent do our bodily actions interact with or shape
language, its processing, and use in communication?
I investigate the relations between meaningful bodily actions,
language, (neuro)cognition, and communication in two
domains: (1) gestures that speakers use spontaneously and
(2) sign languages used by deaf people.
My approach is linguistic as well as psychological and I use
a combination of methods and techniques, such as linguistic
analysis, comparative (developmental, cross-linguistic) and
experimental.
Asli ÖzyürekProfessor of Gesture, language and cognition MA and PhD University of Chicago; Researcher Max Planck Institute;
Researcher Donders Institute.
www.ru.nl/humanities/ozyurek
My research happens in computers; based on large amounts
of digitally stored examples of language use (from movie sub-
titles to debates in the European parliament), computational
models learn to perform complex tasks such as translation
or paraphrasing by example. The way these models work,
and the linguistic elements they choose to work with, reso-
nates well with ideas in theoretical linguistics as well as with
psycholinguistic findings. The same memory-based methods
also prove to be powerful text analytics tools, for extracting
information and knowledge from the vast amounts of free
text that surround us.
Antal van den BoschProfessor of Example-based language modelling MA Tilburg University; PhD Maastricht University; Researcher and Professor
Tilburg University.
www.ru.nl/humanities/bosch
The cosmos. Too big to even begin
to imagine, and yet we try to
build up a conceptual image
of it. As we do with other
elusive concepts such as
grand ideals, God and goodness.
Our conceptualisations help us
get our heads around the
unfathomable. Studying texts
and ideas that make the
unimaginable imaginable,
that is my academic quest.
Ellen van WoldeProfessor of Source Texts of Judaism and Exegesis Old Testament MA, PhD and lecturer Radboud
University Nijmegen; Visiting Professor
Sheffield University; Professor Tilburg
University; Academy Board Member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and
Sciences.
www.ru.nl/humanities/wolde
I study the early and middle Byzantine periods (A.D. 300-1204),
and my published work has focused on political and cultural
history, the history and historio graphy of the Balkans, and
religious warfare.
Before moving to Nijmegen, I taught in the UK, the USA,
and Republic of Ireland, and held research fellowships from
the British Academy (in Oxford), the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation (in Mainz), the Onassis Foundation (in Athens),
and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (in Uppsala).
Currently, I am writing a cultural history of a Greek and
Byzantine monument, the Serpent Column; researching late
antique and Byzantine views of spiritual combat confronted
with jihad and crusade; and exploring the cultural legacy of
Byzantium and the limited extent to which this has been
included in general histories and theories of Europe.
Paul StephensonProfessor of Medieval HistoryMA and PhD University of Cambridge; MA and MSt University of Oxford;
researcher University of Oxford; Rowe Professor University of Wisconsin,
Professor University of Durham.
www.ru.nl/humanities/stephenson
My research focus is the representation, acquisition and
processing of nonnative language in adults and children.
I investigate morphosyntax and its interfaces with semantics
and pragmatics across a variety of pairings of native language
and target language. My comparative approach seeks to
discover what underlies and constrains linguistic develop-
ment in Interlanguage systems and to explain both
convergence and nonconvergence on the target grammar.
Bonnie SchwartzProfessor of Second language acquisition and cross-linguistic diversity MA and PhD University of Southern California; Honorary Reader
University of Durham; Professor University of Hawaii;
Visiting Professor University of Newcastle.
www.ru.nl/humanities/schwartz
Humanities at Radboud University
Nijmegen include education and
research on Arts, Language and Culture,
Philosophy, Theology, Religion
Studies, History, Communication and
Linguistics.
Education and research in Humanities
provide us with a broad outlook
onto the world.
Humanities