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.
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…
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…
Devos, I., Bourguignon, M., Debruyne, E., Doignon, Y., Eggerickx, T., Greefs, H., Hanus, J., Ronsijn, W., and Soens, T. (2021). The Spanish Flu in Belgium, 1918-1919: A State of the Art. Historical Social Research, Supplement, 33, 251-283. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.33.2021.251-283 Source: Cartography by UCL Centre de Recherche en Démographie…