Mélanie Bourguignon wins Tamara Hareven Award for best PhD

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!

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EPIBEL session at ESSHC 2023 @Gothenburg

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,…

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EPIBEL @Campop

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…

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Welcome Lora!

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!

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First EPIBEL-SOHIFIN-AIPRIL workshop

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,…

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EPIBEL @Spatial Humanities 2022, Ghent

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…

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EPIBEL @Spatial Humanities 2022, Ghent
Crude cholera mortality rates by municipality (number of deaths per 1,000 inhabitants), Belgium, 1866

New publication on cholera in Oudenaarde (1849)

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…

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EPIBEL work in progress presented at Posthumus Conference

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…

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We are hiring for a pre-doctoral position

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…

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