881 search results for “history of space” in the Student website
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Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
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Rodrigo OchigameSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Johan VisserFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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Giliam de ValkFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Jay HuangFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Leiden Lawcast S02E02: Developments in Space Law with Tanja Masson-Zwwan
During the second episode of this Leiden Law podcast, hosts Juli Wentholt and Ishana Badhai will talk with Tanja Masson-Zwaan about the latest developments in Space Law.
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Xingni JiangFaculty of Science
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Marcel KeurentjesFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Garnet AkeyrFaculty of Science
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Mesmerising images from James Webb space telescope
The 'deepest and sharpest' image of the Universe to date: the first photos from the new James Webb space telescope yesterday mesmerised astronomers and the public alike. Leiden Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, Ewine van Dishoeck, spoke to various media outlets about the first images, which include…
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Carola HeinSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Launch of LDE Space & Society Honours: ‘I hope students learn they need each other’
Connecting space to society and gaining problem-solving experience: that’s the goal of LDE Space & Society, a new honours programme for bachelor’s students in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam. What does the programme look like? And what do students hope to learn? We visited a kick-off session full of exc…
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Alain WijffelsFaculty of Law
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Tracking the origin and evolution of molecules in space
How do molecules originate and evolve in space? And how does that ultimately determine the chemical composition of planets and their atmospheres? The Dutch Astrochemistry Network (DANIII) receives 1.6 million euros from NWO to find out. A large group of Leiden astronomers and chemists is contributing:…
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
- Centre for the History of European Integration Seminar Series
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculty of Archaeology
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Space telescope Euclid makes first test images - astronomers are full of anticipation
The two instruments of ESA's space telescope Euclid have taken their first test images. The first images indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals for which it was designed - and possibly much more. Euclid will create a 3D map of a third of the sky, allowing scientists to study…
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Maja VodopivecFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.