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.
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…
In collaboration with SOS Antwerpen and Histories, the EPIBEL-team tours Belgium with a series of workshops aimed at amateur historians, genealogists and a broader interested public. The focus is on the study of causes-of-death and epidemics in the past, mainly the nineteenth century, but we also discuss and demonstrate how…
