Projects
S.O.S. Antwerp. Intra-urban Inequalities at Death in the Port City of Antwerp, 1820-1939. Ghent University
Life expectancy in Western countries has increased enormously during the past two centuries. This rise was accompanied by a change in the cause-of-death pattern in which so-called degenerative diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers) gradually replaced infectious diseases (cholera, TB, etc.). The timing of this epidemiologic transition is well-known for Belgium and many other countries, but it is still unclear how this transition varied by ...
S.O.S. Antwerp. Intra-urban Inequalities at Death in the Port City of Antwerp, 1820-1939. University of Antwerp
Dynamics and change of 19th century intergenerational death clustering: an international comparative analysis. KU Leuven
Reading Between the Lines: Uncovering the Subtext of Literature on Death in Imperial Rome KU Leuven
Life and death of legionary soldiers in third-century Agypt. An interdisciplinary study of tomb monuments of Legio II Traiana Fortis. KU Leuven
The Right-to-Die in Belgium. A History of Societal Attitudes, Conceptual Confusion and Advocacy Concerning Euthanasia between the 1880s and 1993. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
euthanasia debates in the Belgian context. Current insights on the history of this topical issue are
limited to anecdotal histories or the personal memories of those involved as end-of-life opinion
makers in the public sphere and proponents towards the political world since the 1980s. The unique
position that Belgium still ...
Death and political culture: funerary practices of political elites in Belgium 1850-1940 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The first level of analysis is devoted to ten royal funerals. The second level focuses on funerals of leaders of government, speakers of the Houses of Parliament and prominent persons who received the honour of ...
Activating the fonds d'atelier. History, materiality and significance of nineteenth-century plaster models in Belgian collections. University of Antwerp
The role of epigenetics in life history evolution. KU Leuven
Adaptations and responses of organisms to cope with variation in environmental conditions have interested biologists for over a century. In this study, we focus on the annual killifish genus Nothobranchius. All species are endemic to temporary ponds native to the African continent. These fishes have evolved a wide array of adaptations to survive in this harsh environment. When their habitat is inundated, dormant eggs buried in the ...