Subject Librarian for the Faculty of Humanities at the University Library

I support the following disciplines:

• Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies
• Linguistics
• Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology 

As a subject librarian, I am involved in collection development and management for the aforementioned disciplines, I teach information literacy courses and I support students, teachers and researchers in their research, teaching and learning activities.

Please contact me for any questions regarding:

• finding secondary literature, primary sources, etc.
• purchasing new publications for the University Library 
• teaching information literacy courses
• support in research activities

Besides my work as a subject librarian, I am a PhD candidate in Arabic Sociolinguistics at the Institut National des Langues et des Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris. My dissertation deals with language variation and change as resulting from long term dialect contact among Palestinians in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

• Iriarte Díez, A., Laaber, C., van Kampen, N., & Benítez Fernández, M. (2023). What is White Arabic? New labels in a changing Arab world: ¿Qué es el árabe blanco? Etiquetas nuevas en un mundo árabe cambiante. Revista Española De Lingüística, 53(2), 229-266. revista.sel.edu.es/index.php/revista/article/view/2114/1359
• Haslé, J., Van Kampen, N., Germanos, M-A., Barontini, A. (2022). Notes sur l’accommodation entre arabophones. In Guram Chikovani and Zviad Tshkvediani (Eds.), Studies on Arabic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of AIDA  (pp. 340-351). Akaki Tsereteli State University Press. https://ejournals.atsu.ge/aida/index.php?dir=Sections&page=Sections.php
• Van Kampen, N. (2019). Mixed Varieties in Political Language in Egypt: The Presidential Debate between ‛Amr Mūsa and ‛Abd al-Min‛im Abu l-Futūḥ. In Catherine Miller, Alexandrine Barontini, Marie-Aimée Germanos, Jairo Guerrero and Christophe Pereira (Eds.), Studies on Arabic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of AIDA held in Marseille from 30th May - 2nd June 2017 (pp. 590-602). Livres de l’Iremam. https://books.openedition.org/iremam/4895 
• Van Kampen, N. (2019). Gemengd Arabisch in een Egyptisch politiek televisiedebat. ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, 15(2), 56-64.
• Van Kampen, N. (2018). Over de relevantie van taalkundig onderzoek in een conflictsituatie: de Palestijnen in Libanon. ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, 14(2), 106-114.

• Van Kampen Nina (2024). Negating norms: Exploring the variation in negative marking among Palestinian speakers in Beirut. Research group Historical Sociolinguistics, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam.
• Van Kampen Nina (2023). Negative marking as a sociolinguistic variable among Palestinian speakers in Beirut. International conference "New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51", City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College, New York.
• Van Kampen Nina (2022). الاحتكاك بين اللهجات والتاباين اللغوي في المجتمع الفلسطيني في بيروت [Dialect contact and linguistic variation in the Palestinian community in Beirut]. International conference "Levantine Arabic Dialects: state of the art and perspectives", University of Jordan/Yarmouk University, Amman/Irbid, Jordan.
• Van Kampen Nina (2021). Linguistic practices in the Palestinian Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut. International conference "Ideologies, Attitudes and Social variables: Their role in the variation and (socio-) linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars", Escuela de Estudios Árabes, CSIC, Granada, Spain.
• Van Kampen Nina (2021). Réflexivité et empirisme: mener une enquête dans la communauté palestinienne de Beyrouth en tant que outsider. Workshop organized by the Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique (RFS) "Mener une recherche en sociolinguistique : terrains, corpus et paradigmes interprétatifs", online.
• Barontini Alexandrine, Germanos Marie-Aimée, Haslé Julie, Van Kampen Nina (2019). Accommodation linguistique entre arabophones. International conference "13th Conference of the International Association of Arabic Dialectology" (AIDA-13), Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia.
• Van Kampen Nina (2019). Building group identity: conversations between two groups of Palestinian women in Beirut.  International conference "Linguistic accommodation between Arabic speakers: targeted traits, contexts, styles", INALCO, Paris, France.
• Van Kampen Nina (2018). Linguistic Representations and Dialect Contact: the Palestinian Refugees in Beirut.  International conference "Arabic Linguistics Forum", School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, United Kingdom.
• Van Kampen Nina (2017). Mixed Varieties in Political Language : the Presidential Debate between ‛Amr Mūsa and ‛Abd al-Min‛im Abu l-Futūḥ. International conference "12th Conference of the International Association of Arabic Dialectology" (AIDA-12), Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France.

Conferences and workshops

• 2022, 22-23 May. International conference Levantine Arabic Dialects: state of the art and perspectives, organized by the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo Beirut/Amman), at the University of Jordan (Amman) and Yarmouk University (Irbid), Jordan. Co-organizers: Natalie Smrekar, Salam Diab Duranton, Simon Dubois, Miriam al-Tawil, Antonella Torzullo.
• 2022, 4-7 May. PhD workshop Journées doctorales de l’Ifpo (« Tout WADI »), Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Beirut. Co-organizers: Elsa Maarawi, Clémence Vendryes, Emma Empociello, Alexandrine Roche, Natalie Smrekar.

Roundtables and practical workshops

• 2023, 23 May. Practical workshop academic writing for doctoral candidates. Co-organizers: Akhésa Moummi, Livia Perosino, Miriam al-Tawil. Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut.
• 2023, 22 May. Roundtable “Authenticité: de la récolte des données à la transcription” with Loubna Dimachki (Lebanese University). Co-organizer: Natalie Smrekar. Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut.
• 2022, 6 May. Roundtable “Réflexions autour de la collaboration scientifique entre institutions françaises et libanaises” with Lama Kabbanji (IRD), Mariam Hasbani (Lebanese University) and Hala Awada (Lebanese University). Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut.
• 2022, 5 May. Workshop “Publication et vulgarisation de la recherche” with Pauline Koetschet and Zeina Fani (Ifpo/Lebanese University). Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut.