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'''CFP: Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis/Journée de l’Histoire Contemporaine'''
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<br>The call for papers for the Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis/Journée de l'Histoire Contemporaine of the BVNG/ABHC is open. This edition will be on the theme "in the margins of history: actual research, debates and challenges". Papers can be submitted until 8 January, more info can be found via the link below. 
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<div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.contemporanea.be/fr/content/journ%C3%A9e-de-l%E2%80%99histoire-contemporaine <font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
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'''Study afternoon medical heritage (in Dutch)'''
 
'''Study afternoon medical heritage (in Dutch)'''
 
<br>On 14 December ETWIE organises a workshop on medical history in the Industry Museum in Ghent. Participation is free, but registration is required. For more information, how to register and to view the program, click the link below.  
 
<br>On 14 December ETWIE organises a workshop on medical history in the Industry Museum in Ghent. Participation is free, but registration is required. For more information, how to register and to view the program, click the link below.  
 
<div style="text-align:right;">[https://etwie.be/nl/kennisbank/nieuws/studienamiddag-medisch-erfgoed-14-december <font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
 
<div style="text-align:right;">[https://etwie.be/nl/kennisbank/nieuws/studienamiddag-medisch-erfgoed-14-december <font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
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'''PhD defence Alexia Coussement'''
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'''Conference: Une pionnière de l'égyptologie au féminin : sur les traces de Marcelle Werbrouck (in French)'''
<br>On 4 December Alexia Coussement will defend her PhD thesis on the history of the [[University of Antwerp]]. RSVP before 20 November 2023.
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<br>On 17 December Luc Delvaux will give a presentation on the Belgian egyptologist [[Werbrouck, Marcelle (1889-1959)|Marcelle Werbrouck]]. More info and inscription via the link below.  
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<div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.soroptimist.be/fr/page/511/66440 <font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
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'''Looking for… THE END OF THE WORLD! A climate expedition aboard the ‘Belgica’'''<br>
 
'''Looking for… THE END OF THE WORLD! A climate expedition aboard the ‘Belgica’'''<br>
 
The King Baudouin Foundation is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the scientific expedition aboard the Belgica, by inviting visitors to the BELvue Museum to embark on a climate expedition. The exhibition can be visited until 4 February.  
 
The King Baudouin Foundation is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the scientific expedition aboard the Belgica, by inviting visitors to the BELvue Museum to embark on a climate expedition. The exhibition can be visited until 4 February.  
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<br/><font color="#54595d">'''The Making of Technique in the Arts'''<br/>
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Sven Dupré & Marieke Hendriksen (eds) </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503598994-1 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Industriële archeologie in Lommel'''<br/>
 
<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Industriële archeologie in Lommel'''<br/>
 
Bruno Indekeu & Yves Sevens </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://etwie.be/nl/kennisbank/nieuws/nieuwe-publicatie-over-een-zinkfabriek-glastrekkerij-en-ietwat-obscure-ondernemers-in-het-lommelse?fbclid=IwAR0pCVOgz6bAToq4iMgXAtVa9OQnWlUwndnY_IeaqaK1nU6f_DR_Jk7H24Y <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
 
Bruno Indekeu & Yves Sevens </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://etwie.be/nl/kennisbank/nieuws/nieuwe-publicatie-over-een-zinkfabriek-glastrekkerij-en-ietwat-obscure-ondernemers-in-het-lommelse?fbclid=IwAR0pCVOgz6bAToq4iMgXAtVa9OQnWlUwndnY_IeaqaK1nU6f_DR_Jk7H24Y <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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It has already been five years since the International Astronomical Union voted to formally change the name of "Hubble's law" to the "Hubble-Lemaître law" in order to acknowledge the scientific contributions of [[Lemaître, Georges Henri Joseph Édouard (1894-1966)|Georges Lemaître]] to the scientific theory of the expansion of the universe. To celebrate this recognition of the father of the big-bang model and modern cosmology, you can find everything on bestor about astronomy by following the link below.  
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In December the Nobel Prizes are handed out. So far five Belgians already had to honour to receive a Nobel Prize in science. The last one was François Englert, who received his prize 10 years ago. You can now [[The Masters of science: Belgian Nobel laureates and the pride of the nation|read the story written for that occasion for the first time in English]]. By clicking on the link below you can discover all the notes on the Nobel Prize and its laureates on Bestor. </font> <div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.bestor.be/wiki_en/index.php/Category:Nobel_Prize_winners <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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Revision as of 10:49, 6 December 2023

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News


News items
CFP: Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis/Journée de l’Histoire Contemporaine
The call for papers for the Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis/Journée de l'Histoire Contemporaine of the BVNG/ABHC is open. This edition will be on the theme "in the margins of history: actual research, debates and challenges". Papers can be submitted until 8 January, more info can be found via the link below.

Study afternoon medical heritage (in Dutch)
On 14 December ETWIE organises a workshop on medical history in the Industry Museum in Ghent. Participation is free, but registration is required. For more information, how to register and to view the program, click the link below.

Conference: Une pionnière de l'égyptologie au féminin : sur les traces de Marcelle Werbrouck (in French)
On 17 December Luc Delvaux will give a presentation on the Belgian egyptologist Marcelle Werbrouck. More info and inscription via the link below.

Looking for… THE END OF THE WORLD! A climate expedition aboard the ‘Belgica’
The King Baudouin Foundation is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the scientific expedition aboard the Belgica, by inviting visitors to the BELvue Museum to embark on a climate expedition. The exhibition can be visited until 4 February.


Recent Publications


The Making of Technique in the Arts

Sven Dupré & Marieke Hendriksen (eds)


Industriële archeologie in Lommel

Bruno Indekeu & Yves Sevens


75 ans de science au service du patrimoine belge

Lionel Dutrieux


volume 16 de la Nouvelle Biographie nationale

Académie Royale de Belgique


La section italienne à l’Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles en 1935: vitrine du régime fasciste ou miroir des industries?

Serena Pacchiani

Jean Capart, père de l’égyptologie belge
Agnès Pirlot


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.)
In the spotlight


Nobel Prize laureates


Ilya Prigogine receiving the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1977

In December the Nobel Prizes are handed out. So far five Belgians already had to honour to receive a Nobel Prize in science. The last one was François Englert, who received his prize 10 years ago. You can now read the story written for that occasion for the first time in English. By clicking on the link below you can discover all the notes on the Nobel Prize and its laureates on Bestor.


Stories



History of Science in Belgium


New records








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