At the recent European Society for Historical Demographics Conference in Nijmegen, EPIBEL researcher Mélanie Bourguignon won the Tamara Hareven Award for best PhD in Historical Dempography with her work titled Fécondité et régimes démographiques au 19e siècle dans les campagnes du sud de la Wallonie - many congratulations!
For all the latest EPIBEL results, make sure to visit the European Social Science History Conference in Gothenburg on 15 April 2023. In the session Pandemics: Learning from a Deep and 'Shallow' Past (FAM12), you can attend the following lectures by EPIBEL team members: Isabelle Devos, Mélanie Bourguignon, Emmanuel Debruyne,…
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…
The EPIBEL team members continue to broadcast their preliminary findings. Late June 2022 Isabelle Devos and Wouter Ronsijn presented their work at the annual Posthumus Conference in Rotterdam. Wouter talked about “Social and demographic inequalities and the 1690s dysentery epidemic in the Southern Netherlands: the case of Sint-Niklaas“. In this novel…
EPIBEL is looking to add a PhD researcher to its team. In this doctoral project we want to emphasize the experiences of socially disadvantaged groups during major epidemic mortality crises in the history of Belgium, from the last great plague waves in the 17th century to the worst cholera and…
Last week the EPIBEL team attended the XXIe colloque international de L’Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue Française (AIDELF) in Athens. We presented no less than 3 papers on COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu (1918-19) in Belgium: Mélanie Bourguignon , Emmanuel Debruyne, Isabelle Devos, Yoann Doignon, Thierry Eggerickx, Hilde Greefs,…
On 17 May 2022, Isabelle Devos will give a webinar for the European Society for Historical Demography titled "War, Peace and Epidemics: the Spanish Flu in the Port City of Antwerp (1918-19)". The webinar will be chaired by Tim Riswick and the paper will be discussed by Svenn-Erik Mamelund. More…
