CALL FOR PAPERS ANOTHER PEEK AT THE NEIGHBOURS’ GRASS New social and economic history research in Belgium and the Netherlands Workshop Friday 19 February 2021 VUB Brussels Under the auspices of the N...
The Make-Up of the City project, led by HOST member Bart Lambert , has started its analysis of 1200 skeletons from a late medieval urban cemetery. Read all about it in their latest blog post .
Historians from all Flemish universities collaborated to write a common opinion piece in the daily newspaper De Standaard, concerning the infamous "Flemish canon" (=a list of historical, cultural '...
HOST member Kristof Loockx's newest publication has appeared in the International Journal of Maritime History . Check it out! Migration trajectories of seafarers during the transition from sail to...
Check out this online article (written in Dutch), published in the most recent edition of EOS Science. HOST members Bart Lambert and Wouter Ryckbosch , together with Nel De Mûelenaere, write about...
The online news site Daily Science Brussels devoted an article (in dutch) on the recently started research project 'Make-up of the City' , in which HOST is a partner. You can visit the page via this...
Recently, the website and Facebook page of the new, interdisciplinary research project 'Make-up of the City' has been launched. Several research groups at the Vrije Universeit Brussel are...
Since the coronavirus affects public meetings in Belgium and many more countries worldwide, PhD defences are to be held online, as was also the case with the defence of Kristof Loockx. Despite this...
On wednesday 29th April, HOST-member Thomas Verbruggen successfully defended his PhD thesis. In his dissertation called 'Maids on the Move': The Migration of Foreign Domestic Servants to Antwerp and...
PhD Fellows Ayfer Erkul and Dennis De Vriese present their respective research in an interview taken by Brussels newspaper BRUZZ. While Erkul delves into the archives to study the interaction between...
At this HOST seminar , we discuss a text from: Bart Lambert (HOST) & Louis Sicking (University of Leiden) Counts, Cities and Commerce: a Comparative Study of the Institutional Foundations of...
At this HOST seminar , we discuss a text by: Jonas Marian Albrecht, JKU Linz Surprising Similarities? Food Market Deregulation And The Consequences Of Laissez-faire In Vienna, Paris And New York City...
At this HOST seminar , we discuss texts by: Tom Bervoets (VUB, HOST) 'Threatening tithes? Clerical litigation and negotiation in eighteenth-century Brabant' Bram De Maeyer, KU Leuven Cementing the...
