Tobit Vandamme

dr. Tobit Vandamme

PhD in History (UGent: BOF - Special Research Fund, 2015-2019)

Master in History/Social Sciences (Universität Heidelberg - EHESS Paris, 2015)

Bachelor in History (Université catholique de Louvain, 2013)

Address: 

History Department, Ghent University

UFO, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, 9000 Gent

room 130.012 (3rd floor)

Tel: +32.9.3310285

Research interests: 

• Business History
• History of the groupe Empain
• Global History/History of Globalization
• Social and Economic History
• Comparative History of Empires
• Migration History

Activities

• PhD training program of the Posthumus Institute for Social and Economic History (participant, 2015-2017)
• Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis (panel organizer and presenter, Brussels, 04/2016)
• KCL Student Conference on World History (presenter, London, 05/2016)
• Masterclass Business History (co-organizer, Utrecht, 06/2016)
• ENIUGH Summer School (presenter, Ghent, 06/2016)
• World History Association Conference (presenter, Ghent, 07/2016)
• ESTER-Research Design Course (presenter, Pisa, 10/2016)
• Press conference Recueil Financier (presenter, Brussels, 03/2017)
• Posthumus Annual Conference (discussant, Nijmegen, 06/2017)
• European Business History Association Conference (presenter+discussant, Vienna, 08/2017)
• "Nationality of the Company" Conference (presenter, Frankfurt, 11/2017)
• Research Seminar in Business History (guest lecture, Solvay Business School (ULB), 04/2018)
• Posthumus Annual Conference (presenter, Utrecht, 05/2018)
• Masterclass w/ Geoffrey Jones (presenter, Eindhoven, 06/2018)
• Research & Debate Seminar of the History & Economics Master (guest lecture, Uni Bayreuth, 06/2018)
• Congrès International d'Histoire des Entreprises en France (presenter, Paris, 09/2019)