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Gewina Spring Meeting

On Friday 23 May, Gewina will hold its spring meeting at Tracé in Maastricht. In the morning there will be a general meeting for Gewina members. In the afternoon, you can attend several sessions on the history of the internationalization of science. The keynote will be given by Professor Joep Leerssen, followed by a visit to the Tracé collection. You can register on the Gewina website.

Job Opportunity: Henri Pirenne
ULB is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the project 'De main de maître.' Vers une transcription automatique des archives de l'historien Henri Pirenne et leur analyse ‘génétique’ et intellectuelle. This part of the research focuses on the intellectual analysis of the historian's work Mahomet et Charlemagne and draws on an extensive and diverse collection of sources on this historical study. More information about the position can be found via this link.


Recent Publications


What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience.

Massimiliano Simons


Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750). A Research Companion.

Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans & Raf Van Rooy (ed.)


Global History of Techniques: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries.

Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Perez & Jérôme Lamy (ed.)


Rond wetenschap verenigd. Van Vlaamse Leergangen tot Academische Stichting Leuven 1924-2024.

Ruben Mantels


Les grands géologues de Belgique. Nés entre 1834 et 1937.

Léon Dejonghe


Journal for the History of Knowledge 5. Special Issue: Mapping Uncertain Knowledge.

Djoeke van Netten (ed.)


Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine.

Pieter Dhondt, Sari Aalto, Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen & Saara-Maija Kontturi (ed.)


Leuven’s College Laboratories. An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science.

Geert Vanpaemel


Franz Cumont : pater patrum of the modern study of the oriental mystery cults.

Danny Praet & Annelies Lannoy


In het kielzog van de Belgica: KBR brengt de Belgische poolexpedities tot leven via storytelling software.

Imke Hansen


Physics in Minerva’s Academy. Early to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Appropriations of Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy at the University of Leiden and in the Dutch Republic at Large, 1687–c.1750.

Steffen Ducheyne


Wonderkamer 10: De zeven hoofdzonden van de wetenschap.



Multispecies History of Science.

Raf De Bont


Patience, diligence, and humility: epistemic virtues and chemistry in the eighteenth century Dutch Republic.

Pieter Beck


The Students and Their Books. Early Modern Practices of Teaching and Learning.

Danilo Facca (ed.)
In the spotlight


Lovanium and Colonial Science


The Colonial High School

70 years ago, the KU Leuven founded Lovanium as its colonial counterpart in Congo. The KU Leuven and Lovanium were embedded in a large network of colonial educational institutions, both in Belgium and the Belgian Congo. Following the link below you can find more information about colonial education in Belgium


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History of Science in Belgium


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