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Chloé Conickx

chloe.conickx@ugent.be

Department

Department of History

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Projects

Projects as PhD researcher

Natural, social, and spiritual order in Enlightenment mesmerism: the Society of Universal Harmony (1783-1787) (2019 - 2023)

Publications

Most recent publications

Conickx, Chloé. Fluid Controversies : Discursive Exchange and Negotiation in the Mesmerism Debate (1779-1785). Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, 2024.
Conickx, Chloé. “Crises around the Baquet : Negotiating the Legitimacy of Magnetic Therapy in the Mesmerism Debate (1784).” EAHMH Conference 2023, Abstracts, 2023.
Conickx, Chloé. “(Re-)Defining ’animal Magnetism’ : The Mesmerism Investigations of 1784.” LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE, no. 24, 2023, doi:10.4000/lrf.7136.
Conickx, Chloé. “The Covid-19 Pandemic and 18th-Century Mesmerism : Scientific Expertise under Pressure.” HHH Column, 2022.
Conickx, Chloé. “A Crisis of Language : The Reconfiguration of Animal Magnetism in the 1784 Debate.” Le Magnétisme Animal En Mouvement : Réconfigurations et Circulations, 1776-1848, 2022.

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Teaching

Historische Praktijk II: Vroegmoderne Tijd: 'Voelen is weten'. Sentiment als leidraad in het Verlicht mesmerisme.