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A WELCOME REFUGEE: Einstein and Red Star Line

In the hangar of the red star line museum runs a temporary free expo that zooms in on the most famous person who ever travelled with the shipping company: Albert Einstein. More info on this free expo and the close connection Einstein had with Antwerp, Belgium and Red Star Line can be found via the link below.

expo: Wunderkammer of TRUTH
The Ghent University Museum is running the new exhibition "Wunderkammer of TRUTH". In this expo, you will find out all about what we are all looking for. THE truth. But what are we really looking for? Does absolute certainty exist? What is the role of science and art in this search? And also: does a museum actually always tell the truth? More info and reservations via the link below.

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SERVING SOCIETY: Academies and the challenges of a complex world

ARB & KVAB

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-'''Sarton lectures'''
+'''A WELCOME REFUGEE: Einstein and Red Star Line'''
-<br>After the inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Geert Vanpaemel, the Sarton lectures will take place again in Ghent. The next Sarton lecture will be presented on 24 November by Prof. dr. Geert Van Hove (Ghent University) on the topics of 'Disability Studies: ook een jong wetenschapsveld heeft een geschiedenis'
+In the hangar of the red star line museum runs a temporary free expo that zooms in on the most famous person who ever travelled with the shipping company: Albert Einstein. More info on this free expo and the close connection Einstein had with Antwerp, Belgium and Red Star Line can be found via the link below.<div style="text-align:right;">[https://redstarline.be/en/einstein <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
-<div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.sartonchair.ugent.be/en/lectures<font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
-'''Dag van de Wetenschap (in Dutch)'''
+'''expo: Wunderkammer of TRUTH'''
-<br>'Dag van de Wetenschap'is an initiative of the Flemish government and is the biggest science event in Flanders and Brussels. The annual event - now in its 12th edition - is coordinated by Technopolis and organised in cooperation with the associations of Flemish universities and colleges, scientific institutions and associations, STEM academies, museums, companies and federations.
+<br>The Ghent University Museum is running the new exhibition "Wunderkammer of TRUTH". In this expo, you will find out all about what we are all looking for. ''THE'' truth. But what are we really looking for? Does absolute certainty exist? What is the role of science and art in this search? And also: does a museum actually always tell the truth? More info and reservations via the link below.
-<div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.dagvandewetenschap.be/<font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
+</font> <div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.gum.gent/en/event/wunderkammer-of-truth <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
-'''Exposition: L'Académie au féminin (in French)'''
-<br>The Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium explores the history of the presence of women in European academies, before examining the role of women in the
-academies, before looking at its own history and at some of the pioneering Belgian figures. The exhibit can be freely until 16 December in the Academy Palace at Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels.
-</font> <div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.academieroyale.be/fr/actualites-detail/messages/exposition-il-academie-feminini-14nbspseptembre-16nbspdecembre/ <font color="DC143C"><small>continue reading ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Théodore Mann. Savoir et pouvoir: Un théoricien du climat à l'Académie de Bruxelles au XVIIIe siècle'''<br/>Muriel Collart </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://academie-editions.be/histoire/479-637-theodore-mann.html#/1-format-epub<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''SERVING SOCIETY: Academies and the challenges of a complex world'''<br/>
+ARB & KVAB </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://kvab.be/sites/default/files/publicaties/EN_Serving%20society.pdf <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue  ></small></font>]</div>
+----
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Les Iguanodons de Bernissart: Des fossiles et des hommes'''<br/>
+Pascal Godefroit </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://academie-editions.be/sciences-du-vivant/527-les-iguanodons-de-bernissart.html <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue  ></small></font>]</div>
+----
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''‘We Never Talked About It at Home’: Diethylstilbestrol, Impacted Families and the (De)construction of Ignorance from Below (Belgium, 1970s–Present) '''<br/>
+Antje Van Kerckhove & Tinne Claes </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad100 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue  ></small></font>]</div>
+----
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Scènes de Crimes. La photographie policière, témoin de l'enquête judiciaire'''<br/>
+Laurence Druez en Xavier Rousseaux (eds.) </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.racine.be/fr/sc%C3%A8nes-de-crimes <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+----
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Bezet bedrijf: De oorlogsgeschiedenis van de NMBS'''<br/>
+Nico Wouters </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.lannoo.be/nl/bezet-bedrijf <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–1990'''<br/>Hein Brookhuis </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/epdf/10.1484/J.CNT.5.131462<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Hector Lebrun; La science en filigrane'''<br/>
+Céline Rase </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.pun.be/fr/livre/?GCOI=99993100911070 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary'''<br/>Siska De Baerdemaeker and Mike D. Schneider </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/719017 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Journal of Belgian History - special issue: "Belgian Business Beyond Borders"'''<br/>
+Robrecht Declercq & Kenneth Bertrams (eds) </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.journalbelgianhistory.be/en/journal/journal-belgian-history-liii-2023-3 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Adolphe Quetelet: Passeur d'idées'''<br/>Jean-Jacques Droesbeke </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://academie-editions.be/accueil/447-adolphe-quetelet.html <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''The End of Tuberculosis? A Belgian Sanatorium and Questionable Narratives of the Triumph Over Disease (1947–1986)'''<br/>
+Tim Debroyer </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/80/2/article-p313_004.xml <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Medical histories of Belgium: New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'''<br/>Joris Vandendriessche &  Benoît Majerus (Eds.) </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/supplemental/9781526151070/9781526151070.xml/9781526151070_fullhl.pdf?t:state:client=udcqgjFrvfPXFRp1SuqeVm8f+RA=: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 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''The Making of Technique in the Arts'''<br/>
+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">'''Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom'''<br/>Dennis Pohl </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07341512.2021.1960074 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<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>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890–2017)'''<br/>Katrien De Graef </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646020898-014 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''75 ans de science au service du patrimoine belge'''<br/>
+ Lionel Dutrieux</font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.belspo.be/belspo/organisation/publ/pub_ostc/sciencecon/69sci_fr.pdf#page=12 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''The Congo Museum (1898–1910): On collaboration,conflict, bureaucracy and immorality'''<br/>Maarten Couttenier </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1954632 <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''volume 16 de la Nouvelle Biographie nationale'''<br/>
+Académie Royale de Belgique</font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://academieroyale.be/fr/actualites-detail/messages/sortie-presse-volume-16-inouvelle-biographie-nationalei/<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''The Local versus the Global in the history of relativity:The case of Belgium'''<br/>Sjang L. ten Hagen </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/FE3225A6006BBBADECDAE7519CB451C7/S0269889721000028a.pdf/local_versus_the_global_in_the_history_of_relativity_the_case_of_belgium.pdf<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''La section italienne à l’Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles en 1935: vitrine du régime fasciste ou miroir des industries?'''<br/>
+Serena Pacchiani</font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.journalbelgianhistory.be/fr/system/files/article_pdf/Pacchiani_BTNG%202022_3_deff.pdf<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Gouverner la recherche entre excellence scientifique et pertinence sociétale'''<br/>Nathan Charlier </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.cite.uliege.be/cms/c_6724693/fr/gouverner-la-recherche-entre-excellence-scientifique-et-pertinence-societale <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Jean Capart, père de l’égyptologie belge'''<br/>Agnès Pirlot</font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://laterreestunjardin.com/jean-capart/<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Caesarian section: In 19th century Belgium, post-mortem caesarean section turned into a politicized debate.'''<br/>Jolien Gijbels </font><div style="text-align:right;">[http://dicopolhis.univ-lemans.fr/en/dictionary/c/caesarian-section.html <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
+<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Making Belgian Big Science: A History of the MYRRHA Research Reactor (1994—2010)'''<br/>Hein Brookhuis</font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article-abstract/53/1/35/195533/Making-Belgian-Big-ScienceA-History-of-the-MYRRHA<font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''The Overview of the Conservation and Renewal of the Industrial Belgian Heritage as a Vector for Cultural Regeneration'''<br/>Jiazhen Zhang,Jeremy Cenci,Vincent Becue & Sesil Koutra </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://doi.org/10.3390/info12010027  <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Colonial Ideology, Colonial Sciences and Colonial Sociology in Belgium'''<br/>Marc Poncelet </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12108-020-09455-z.pdf <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''“Met vereende krachten”: een Antwerpse universiteitsgeschiedenis (1954-2003)'''<br/>Alexia Coussement </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.contemporanea.be/nl/article/20204-review-nl-coussement  <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Science in history and beyond'''<br/>Lewis Pyenson </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40828-020-00128-5.pdf <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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-<br/><font color="#54595d">'''Sociology in Great Little Belgium'''<br/>Raf Vanderstraeten & Kaat Louckx </font><div style="text-align:right;">[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12108-020-09447-z.pdf  <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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+<div style="text-align:left;letter-spacing:2px">[[File:mail.png|40px|link=http://eepurl.com/gn_vJX]]<font color="#54595d"><big> '''Newsletter'''</big></font><br/>
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+<div style="text-align:left;letter-spacing:4px">[[File:Facebook.png|link=https://www.facebook.com/Bestor.be|45px]]<font color="#54595d"><big>'''Facebook'''</big></font><br/>[https://www.facebook.com/Bestor.be <font color="#54595d">Follow Bestor on Facebook!</font>]
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+<div style="text-align:left;letter-spacing:4px">[[File:XLogo-black.png|link=https://twitter.com/Bestor_be|30px]]<font color="#54595d"><big> '''Twitter'''</big></font><br/>[https://twitter.com/Bestor_be <font color="#54595d">Follow Bestor on Twitter!</font>]
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 <div style="color:#DC143C;font-family:arial;font-style: normal; font-size:27px;font-weight: normal;text-align:left;letter-spacing: 4px">In the spotlight</div>
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-<br><font color="#54595d"><big>'''The Royal Academies'''</big>
+<br><font color="#54595d"><big>'''Botany'''</big>
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-[[File:Portret van keizerin Maria Theresia, 1749, Groeningemuseum.jpg|200px|right|link=https://www.bestor.be/wiki_en/index.php/Category:Academies]]
+[[Image:Van mons jean baptiste.gif|690x220px|right|Jean-Baptiste Van Mons|link=https://www.bestor.be/wiki_en/index.php/Mons,_Jean-Baptiste_van_(1765-1842)]]
 <font color="#54595d">
-years ago Maria-Theresia of Austria founded the Imperial and Royal Academy of Brussels. This academy was the predecessor of the Royal Academies of Belgium today. Via the link below you can find everything on Bestor related to the academies.
+After the dead of [[Mons, Jean-Baptiste van (1765-1842)|Jean-Baptiste Van Mons]], his famous horticultural nursery was in peril. Which is why 170 years ago, the [[Société Van Mons]] was founded under the royal patronage of Leopold I and with the support of the government. Following the link below you can find all the botanists on bestor. </font> <div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.bestor.be/wiki_en/index.php/Category:Botanists <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
-</font> <div style="text-align:right;">[https://www.bestor.be/wiki_en/index.php/Category:Academies <font color="DC143C"><small>Continue ></small></font>]</div>
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+File:Orangerie Gand front.jpg|link=Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)|[[Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)|<font color="696969">'''Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)'''<br/></font>]]
 File: Houzeau gallerij.jpeg|link=A Belgian scientist in ‘the New World’: the nomadic evolutionism of Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie|[[A Belgian scientist in ‘the New World’: the nomadic evolutionism of Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie|<font color="696969">'''A Belgian scientist in ‘the New World’: the nomadic evolutionism of Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie'''</font>]]
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-[[History of science in Belgium]]{{redbullet}}
+[[Vallée Poussin, Charles-Jean Gustave Nicolas baron de la (1866-1962)]]{{redbullet}}
+[[Prigogine, Ilya (1917-2003)]]{{redbullet}}
+[[De Donder, Théophile Ernest (1872-1957)]]{{redbullet}}
+[[Houzeau de Lehaie, Jean-Charles (1820-1888)]]{{redbullet}}
+[[Mogenet, Joseph (1913-1980)]]{{redbullet}}
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