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Alba Hermida RodríguezFaculty of Humanities
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Marijn van 't Veer
Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
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Roeland Böcker: 'Problems of multilateralism are a never-ending debate'
On 8 December, in honour of Human Rights Week, Roeland Böcker gave a public lecture about his experiences as ambassador to the Council of Europe. Between 2017 and 2021, Roeland Böcker was the representative of the Netherlands in the Council of Europe.
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Webb detects icy ingredients for making potential habitable worlds
An international team of astronomers, led by Will Rocha of Leiden Observatory, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that the key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds are present in early-stage protostars, where planets have not yet formed.
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Legal and policy aspects of space big data: Legal implications of the use of large amounts of space data
PhD defence
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Testing linguistic theories with deep learning: a case study on meaning predictability
Lecture
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The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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In Memoriam: Lucas Ressang
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Lucas Ressang, a valued member of our Asian Studies community. Lucas was a dedicated and thoughtful student whose intellectual curiosity and passion for learning left a lasting impact on those who had the privilege of working with him.
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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
Lecture
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? PhD candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left…
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Space for academic debate: discussing academic boycotts and ethics committees
Lecture
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Meike de BoerFaculty of Humanities
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Jelena ProkicFaculty of Humanities
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Imagining Oceans: A Critical Conversation on Oceanic Spaces
Lecture
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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’
To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden University. ‘My love for Chekhov hasn’t faded,’ says Van der Ent from his home 60 kilometres south of Kyiv. ‘But it has for the rest of Russia.’
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46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
Conference
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Applied Linguistics and AI Discussion Series: "Using machine translation for language learning in the classroom"
Lecture, Discussion
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of residents? And can we learn anything from this period for our current times? University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate…
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How gas conflicts between Ukraine and Russia were the precursor to war
The war between Ukraine and Russia is playing out not just on the battlefield but also on the geopolitical playing field of gas. Conflicts at the start of this century about this energy source were, says PhD candidate Ilia Barboutev, a precursor to today’s war.
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Andrew WigmanFaculty of Humanities
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Gregory McLean
Faculty of Humanities
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Adrian Stenton
Faculty of Humanities
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Tianyi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Wesley Eikenaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Shaoyu WangFaculty of Humanities
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Nargess Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Shehu Aliyu Waziri
Faculty of Humanities
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Ouras Aljani
Faculty of Humanities
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Rasmus NielsenFaculty of Humanities
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Cid Swanenvleugel
Faculty of Humanities
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Astronomers spot benzene in planet-forming disk around star for first time
An international team of astronomers including Leiden professor Ewine van Dishoeck has observed the benzene molecule (C6H6) in a planet-forming disk around a young star for the first time. The observations tell us more about the forming of planets in this disc, like our own Earth. The scientists publish…
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First detailed picture of ice in planet-forming disk
An international team of astronomers led by Ardjan Sturm of the Observatory has made the first two-dimensional inventory of ice in a planet-forming disk of dust and gas surrounding a young star. The researches, including Melissa McClure, used the James Webb Space Telescope and publish their findings…
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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The hunt for frozen organic molecules in space
PhD defence
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Curse & Counter-Curse: A Comparative Conference in Philology, Linguistics & Archaeology
Conference
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
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Boundary extensions of symmetric spaces in equivariant KK-theory
PhD defence
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A quick call about Ukraine: 'Putin wants to be taken seriously'
Suddenly there they were, the Russian soldiers near the border of Ukraine. Since then, reports of tensions between Russia on the one hand and the United States and Europe on the other have dominated the news. What is going on? An interview with Russia expert André Gerrits.
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Jenny DoetjesFaculty of Humanities
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Russia's escalating hybrid warfare across Europe
Bart Schuurman sheds light on the alarming trend in both the frequence and geographical spread of these incidents with The Parliament Magazine.
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Daniel Peat in El País on the International Court of Justice and the war in Ukraine
President Zelensky of Ukraine has asked the UN International Court of Justice to issue an urgent order to stop Russian military activity in his country. According to Zelensky, Russia has twisted the concept of genocide to justify aggression.
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Strong need to talk together about Ukraine
Everyone has been watching the attack on Ukraine, a war on the European continent, with a sense of foreboding. It will bring devastation, loss, suffering and worry and it raises questions. With these words, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl opened the meeting on the war in Ukraine at Wijnhaven on Thursday…
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Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture