1,121 search results for “russian and space linguistics” in the Staff website
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‘Technology shouldn’t shape our future; we should’
Technology holds so much promise – from self-driving cars to enhanced physical performance from smart implants under the skin. But we should not let ourselves be caught off guard. That is the message of Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science in his inaugural lecture on 21 May. ‘We don’t talk…
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In Memoriam: Dr Joannes (Jan) Schmidt (15 June 1951-11 August 2025)
Last week, the sad news reached us that Dr Jan Schmidt passed away on 11 August 2025. We wish his partner, friends and family strength and comfort as they cope with this loss. Jan Schmidt will be remembered as one of the most prolific and learned scholars in the field of Ottoman codicology and histo…
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A call about... the University Council
The University Council gives the Executive Board (un)solicited advice and helps decide on important topics. For example, permanent contracts for lecturers and the workload and well-being of our students and staff. It’s an important organ, but many staff have no idea what it does. ‘I think it’s great…
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Lorentz Center to receive structural support from NWO and Leiden University
The Lorentz Center is a melting pot that is visited by researchers from around the world. ‘Miracles happen’ during the five-day interactive workshops at the Center. And there is an extra reason to celebrate the center’s 25th anniversary. On 28 April, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Leiden University…
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Humanities PhD Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Work Stress Week 2024: free activities to help reduce work-related stress
Workshops
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Generics and stereotypes in discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Conference
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
- Language and the human past
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Affective Iconicity of Tonemes in Standard Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
- Una Europa: European Day of Languages
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
- The global ordering of authority and diversity
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Stellar drama: Relationships between planets and stars
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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Conference Power and Counterpower in Democracy
Conference
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LUCIR Lecture: Inside Gang Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
Lecture
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Sources and Strategies in Translating the Canonical Readings of the Qur’an: A case study of Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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War in Europe
Conference
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Reflections on a year of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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OSINT: From Theory, Intelligence to Evidence
Conference
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Why the Old Cold War Ended, a New Russia-West Cold War Developed, and the Russia-Ukraine Hot War began
Lecture
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
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International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS)
Symposium
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
- Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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The morphological encoding of Mandarin compounds using EEG techniques
Lecture, CHiLL series
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ssh labs
Opening
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Discontinuous Constituency and BERT: Two Case Studies of Dutch
Lecture
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Social interaction meets technology
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
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A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence from Shaoxing
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researchers will be able to devote themselves to their PhD research. Let’s meet these new PhD candidates!
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.