1,121 search results for “russian and space linguistics” in the Staff website
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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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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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Testing linguistic theories with deep learning: a case study on meaning predictability
Lecture
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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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Is our water older than the sun? Astronomers find clue in ice around young star
A team led by Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy water ice around a young sunlike star. In this ice, some of the ordinary hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, a heavier variant of hydroge…
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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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The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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How to find the right room for your teaching
Facility
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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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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
Lecture
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Space for academic debate: discussing academic boycotts and ethics committees
Lecture
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For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, and the James Webb Space Telescope, they have observed the creation of the first…
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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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46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
Conference
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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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Finding Baby Black Holes with the James Webb Space Telescope
Lecture, Oort lecture
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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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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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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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Sara Clarrise Noussi-Tegantchouang NjomgangFaculty of Humanities
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Emma Bierings
Faculty of Humanities
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Anooshik Maleki Bakhshmandi
Faculty of Humanities
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Cornelia de Haan
Faculty of Humanities
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Fernanda Maciel Ziober
Faculty of Humanities
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Kefan Bao
Faculty of Humanities
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Isaac Eaton
Faculty of Humanities
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Colin EwenFaculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
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Jully Acuña Suarez
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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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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Events
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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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Curse & Counter-Curse: A Comparative Conference in Philology, Linguistics & Archaeology
Conference
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
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The hunt for frozen organic molecules in space
PhD defence
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Boundary extensions of symmetric spaces in equivariant KK-theory
PhD defence
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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Rint SybesmaFaculty of Humanities
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Manolis FragkiadakisFaculty of Humanities
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Rahmatan IdulFaculty of Humanities
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Jelena ProkicFaculty of Humanities
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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities