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1,069 search results for “history of space” in the Staff website

• Materiality, Religion and the Environment Event - 19 March 2026

  Conference, L*CeSAR Research Workshop

• PhD research Willeke Mulder News - 31 March 2026

  How do you detect life on a planet light years away? During her PhD research, astronomer Willeke Mulder worked on an instrument to detect such signals – culminating in an experiment from a hot air balloon.

• From chants to a voice: how young workers organised News - 13 April 2026

  ‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.

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  Tycho van der Hoog Guest researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  t.a.van.der.hoog@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan Abbink Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mark Rutgers Chair of the Board ASCL

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.r.rutgers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0611719340

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  Ellen van Reuler Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.a.h.e.van.reuler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275077

• Global Histories of Knowledge 2025 - 2026 Event
• Sancisi-Weerdenburg Lecture: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and World History Event - 8 June 2026

  Lecture

• Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’ News - 25 July 2022

  A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
• Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025 Event
• What's inside a giant planet? Yamila Miguel will find out with an ERC Consolidator Grant News - 6 February 2023

  Discovering what is inside giant planets and their atmosphere, that is one of the goals of astronomer Yamila Miguel. With an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 million euro, she will study giant planets both inside and outside our solar system. ‘We want to know more about how planetary systems are born, how…

• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2024-2025 Event
• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2025-2026 Event
• Ancient History Research Seminars 2025-2026 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025 Event
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  Maarten Jansen Professor emeritus

  m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marie-leen Ryckaert Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  m.l.e.ryckaert@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589

• Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives Event - 17 January 2025

  Conference

• Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality Event - 11 December 2025

  Lecture, Keynote

• European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025 Event - 26 March 2025

  Conference

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  Maria Voltsichina PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.voltsichina@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’ News - 12 April 2022

  This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.

• The Roman empire and world history Event - 30 January 2026

  Debate

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  Cigdem Billur-Ada

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  Gijs Dreijer Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.p.dreijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Pablo Merayo Montes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.merayo.montes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Hannelore Braeken PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.braeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271348

• Development of Humanities Campus Construction projects

  Our aim with the Humanities Campus is to create a sustainable and attractive campus with ample green spaces and opportunities for interaction, complemented by modern and future-proof facilities. The campus is being developed in stages. On this page, you can find information about the planning, latest…

• Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities News - 19 June 2023

  What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.

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  Sil Douma PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.j.douma@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mahdis Mirzadeh PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.m.mirzadeh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Eline Rademakers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.rademakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Felix Bosch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.r.bosch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Harold van der Kraan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.van.der.kraan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Richard Griffiths Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.t.griffiths@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009938

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  Ysbrand Lamers PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.h.lamers@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Saskia van Anen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.van.anen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Marinus van Hekken

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  Tim Lubbers PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  t.lubbers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274727

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  Christiaan van Beek PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.h.van.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Sarah Cramsey Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278825

• Why have murals been used in social and political movements? News - 4 October 2022

  Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…

• Leiden PhD student discovers thin atmosphere on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c with JWST News - 20 June 2023

  A group of astronomers led by Leiden PhD student Sebastian Zieba has discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c has a thin atmosphere. Although the planet is nearly identical to Venus in size and temperature, and was expected to have a thick atmosphere,…

• Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos Event - 16 April 2026

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology News - 5 February 2025

  Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.

• Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina News - 19 May 2022

  82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.