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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 (2017-2025) - 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
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2020
)
Environment as object and actor of conquest and conservationism in (post)imperial Africa
Publicaties
Meest recente publicaties
De Meyer, Marleen, et al. “The Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth in Belgium and the Creation of National and Transnational Egyptological Research Infrastructures in the 1920s–1940s.”
Oriental Societies and Societal Self-Assertion : Associations, Funds and Societies for the Archaeological Exploration of the “Ancient Near East,”
edited by Thomas L. Gertzen and Olaf Matthes, vol. 10, Zaphon, 2024, pp. 141–66.
Vandersmissen, Jan, and Christophe Verbruggen. “Governing Belgian Expansionism in Egypt : The Practice of Interlocking Directorates (1893-1947).”
JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 53, no. 3, 2023, pp. 18–46.
Huskens, Gert, et al. “Lifting the Veil of Levantine Cosmopolitanism : Diplomatic Networking in Egypt, 1873-1914.”
DH_Budapest_2022 & DARIAH DAYS Conference, Abstracts
, 2022.
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.
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.
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