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Dr. Jan Vandersmissen
Dr. Jan Vandersmissen
jan.vandersmissen@ugent.be
Contact details
Department
Department of History
Research group(s)
ECC - Economies, Comparisons, Connections
SARTON - Sarton Centre for History of Science
SocialHistory - Social History since 1750
Other institution(s)
President (2019) - Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Brussels)
Board member & Treasurer (2017-2021) - Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (Paris)
Research Focus
History
Research Period
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Research Region
Africa
Belgium
Western Europe
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as postdoc
Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology, 1830-1952
(
2018
-
2022
)
'Les Indes africaines' versus 'Le Congo minotaure'. Climate, acclimatization, hygiene and the contested idealization of the imperial project of Leopold II in Congo, 1876-1908
(
2017
-
2020
)
Environment as object and actor of conquest and conservationism in (post)imperial Africa
Publications
Most recent publications
D’haeninck, Thomas, et al. “Medicine and Social Reform.”
Medical Histories of Belgium : New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
, edited by Joris Vandendriessche and Benoît Majerus, Manchester University Press, 2020.
Vandersmissen, Jan. “Marie de Rugy, Aux Confins Des Empires : Cartes et Constructions Territoriales Dans Le Nord de La Péninsule Indochinoise (1885-1914).”
EAST ASIAN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE
, vol. 50, 2019, pp. 184–86.
De Meyer, Marleen, et al. “Pyramids and Progress : Belgian Expansionism and the Making of Egyptology, 1830-1952.”
Towards a History of Egyptology : Proceedings of the Egyptological Section of the 8th ESHS Conference in London, 2018
, edited by Hana Navratilova et al., vol. 4, Zaphon, 2019, pp. 173–93.
Vandersmissen, Jan. “Diser, Lyvia, Wetenschap Op De Proef. Laboratoria in Het Belgisch Overheidsbeleid (1870-1940). Leuven : Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2016.”
Contemporanea
2017 : n. pag. Print.
Vandersmissen, Jan. “Geert Vanpaemel, Wetenschap Als Roeping. Een Geschiedenis Van De Leuvense Faculteit Voor Wetenschappen. Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2017.”
Contemporanea
2017 : n. pag. Print.
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