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Sarton lectures
The next Sarton lecture will be presented in Dutch on 23 March by Adriaan Linters on the topic 'Het erfgoed van/met de vuile handen'

9th PhD Conference in History of Science and Humanities
The 9th PhD Conference in History of Science and Humanities will take place at the Soeterbeeck Abbey on 20 and 21 April 2023. The conference aims to bring together PhD candidates in Belgium and the Netherlands who work in the field of the history of science in the broadest sense: including histories of knowledge, technology, medicine, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, spanning any time period.

Expo ‘Over vliegen, vallen… en opgraven!’ (in Dutch)
In 2002, the Belgian Aviation History Association Archaeology Team (BAHAAT) was formed to work with the government to take a more scientific approach to excavating aircraft wrecks. Together with them, Archeocentrum Velzeke they created the exhibition "About flying, falling... and digging up!". The expo can be visited from 20 May until 17 September.


Recent Publications

Making Belgian Big Science: A History of the MYRRHA Research Reactor (1994—2010)
Hein Brookhuis

Taking the University to the People. The Role of Lantern Lectures in Extramural Adult Education in Early Twentieth-Century Brussels and Antwerp
Margo Buelens-Terryn

Il n’est sagesse sans folie:La vie singulière de François Englert, Prix Nobel. Chronique en dix épisodes, un prologue et un épilogue
Danielle Losman

Small and great stories of the Geological Survey of Belgium
Kris Welkenhuysen & Vanessa M.A. Heyvaert (eds.)

Théodore Mann. Savoir et pouvoir: Un théoricien du climat à l'Académie de Bruxelles au XVIIIe siècle
Muriel Collart

Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–1990
Hein Brookhuis

Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary
Siska De Baerdemaeker and Mike D. Schneider

Adolphe Quetelet: Passeur d'idées
Jean-Jacques Droesbeke

Medical histories of Belgium: New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Joris Vandendriessche & Benoît Majerus (Eds.)

Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom
Dennis Pohl

Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890–2017)
Katrien De Graef


In the spotlight

Clémence Everard

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This month it is not only International Women's Day but it is also 130 years since Clémence Everard became the first woman to receive the degree of doctor of medicine in Belgium. To find out more about Everard, you can click the link below.



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History of Science in Belgium



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