On 15 March 2023, Jord Hanus will present EPIBEL's latest work in progress on epidemics and their societal impacts and determinants to the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop): "Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920". Stay tuned for a…
The EPIBEL team visits the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) in Zürich for a day-long workshop on our mutual research interests. You can follow the symposium live via Zoom (https;//bit.ly/3BgbW9G), all details are shown below.
Lora Pannekoucke joins the Centre for Urban History as PhD candidate at the EPIBEL project. This summer, Lora graduated with a master’s degree in History. Her thesis discussed the role of socio-economic inequality during the cholera epidemic of 1866. Stay tuned for a summary of her most important findings!
On 16 September 2022 the Antwerp EPIBEL team hosted a first collaborative workshop with a clear methodological focus on spatial analysis of mortality and inequality. In this workshop we demonstrated and questioned different methods of spatial visualisation and spatial analysis of historical and present-day data on epidemic mortality in Belgium,…
At the Spatial Humanities 2022 Conference hosted in Ghent, Isabelle Devos talked about "The 1866 cholera epidemic in Brussels: a spatio-temporal reconstruction", and expands on previous work. In this contribution, we examine who were the main victims of the epidemic in Brussels and show the course of the epidemic across…
Wouter Ronsijn just published "Historische Epidemieën: Cholera in 1849 in Oudenaarde", a study of the 1849 cholera outbreak in Flemish Oudenaarde. His analysis covers medical, social and spatial variables, such as the geographical spread of cholera morbidity and mortality as shown below: Source: see paper You can find the paper…
On 22 April 2022 Jord Hanus presented recent EPIBEL work at a webinar of the OsloMet Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC), titled “Socioeconomic Status and Epidemic Mortality in an Urban Environment (Mechelen, Belgium): Were Dysentery (1794) and Cholera (1866) Socially Neutral Diseases?”. The preliminary results show some…