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dr. Jan Vandersmissen
Dr. Jan Vandersmissen
jan.vandersmissen@ugent.be
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-2208
Vakgroep
Vakgroep Geschiedenis
Onderzoeksgroep(en)
ECC - Economies, Comparisons, Connections
SARTON - Sarton Centre for History of Science
SocialHistory - Social History since 1750
Andere instituten
Member and Past President (2019) - Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Brussels)
Board member & Treasurer (2017-2021) - Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (Paris)
Onderzoeksgebied
History
Tijdsperiode
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Land/Regio
Africa
Belgium
Western Europe
Tabgroup
Projecten
Projecten als postdoctoraal medewerker
The road to Alexandria. The sensation of landscapes in European travel writing, 1919-1939
(
2021
-
2025
)
Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology, 1830-1952
(
2018
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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
Publicaties
Meest recente publicaties
Verbruggen, Christophe, et al. “Social Reform International Congresses and Organizations (1846-1914) : From Sources to Data.”
JOURNAL OF OPEN HUMANITIES DATA
, vol. 8, 2022, doi:10.5334/johd.69.
Huskens, Gert, et al. “Lifting the Veil of Levantine Cosmopolitanism : Diplomatic Networking in Egypt, 1873-1914.”
DH_Budapest_2022 & DARIAH DAYS Conference, Abstracts
, 2022.
Vandersmissen, Jan, and Lisa van Diem. “‘Les Indes Africaines’ versus ’Le Congo Minotaure’ : Debatten over Klimaat, Acclimatisatie, Hygiëne En de Idealisering van Het Imperiaal Project van Leopold II in Congo, 1876-1908.”
JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 51, no. 3, 2021, pp. 8–35.
D’haeninck, Thomas, et al. “Public Health, Hygiene and Social Activism.”
Medical Histories of Belgium : New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
, edited by Joris Vandendriessche and Benoît Majerus, vol. 41, Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 134–68, doi:10.7765/9781526151070.00010.
Vanhulle, Dorian, et al. “Leopold II and Egypt : Two Initiatory Journeys.”
Belgians on the Nile : A History of Royal Visits, Entrepreneurship and Archaeological Exploration in Egypt
, edited by Marleen De Meyer and Sibille de Cartier d’Yves, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2020, pp. 16–45.
Volledige bibliografie
Onderwijs
Historische praktijk II: wereldgeschiedenis en wereldstudies