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…
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…
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…
Earlier this month the EPIBEL team presented some of the first results on our research into historical epidemics at the European Society of Historical Demograpics Conference 2022 in Madrid (ESHD). In the coming weeks you can also find us at the Economic History Society Conference 2022 in Cambridge (UK, EHS)…
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…
Post-doctoral Position (4-year – 80%) - EPIBEL: Epidemics and Inequalities in Belgium from the Plague to COVID-19: what can we learn about societal resilience? This project elaborates a historical perspective on two of the most pressing challenges of today: epidemics and inequality. The more we learn about the way the…
PhD position (4 year) – EPIBEL: Epidemics and Inequalities in Belgium from the Plague to COVID-19: what can we learn about societal resilience? This project elaborates a historical perspective on two of the most pressing challenges of today: epidemics and inequality. The more we learn about the way the lives…
