Back to the Future search menu search content Case studies From the eighteenth century onwards, the future was considered as open, uncertain and constructible – the way we tend to perceive the future today. In contrast, early modern Europeans believed that the future was beyond the control of man.…

Elisabeth Heijmans unpaid staff Research Elisabeth Heijmans Research team Expertise Elisabeth Heijmans is an economic and social historian specialized in French and Dutch early modern overseas expansions. She is a post-doctoral researcher at the university of Antwerp in the Center for Urban History.…

Andrew Maas emeritus occasionele opdracht Publicaties Andrew Maas Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators Bron EBioMedicine - ISSN 2352-3964-121 (2025) p. 1-15 Auteur(s) Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E. Magnus, …

Sanne Hermans unpaid staff Research Sanne Hermans Research team Centre for Urban History Future expectations and actions in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Low Countries. 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2024 Abstract This project investigates future expectations and the resulting actions in the 16th- and …

Tomas Menovsky hoofddocent Publicaties Tomas Menovsky Real-world evidence in lumbar degenerative disease : from data to decision Bron Antwerp, University of Antwerp & Hasselt University,182 p. Auteur(s) Vincent Raymaekers, Mark Plazier, Tomas Menovsky Citatielink Aspects of hemorrhage & hemostasis i…

Andrew Maas emeritus occasional assignment Publications Andrew Maas Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators Source EBioMedicine - ISSN 2352-3964-121 (2025) p. 1-15 Author(s) Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E. Magn…

Kristof Loockx postdoc researcher FWO Research Kristof Loockx Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Maritime History - Social History - Urban History - Migration Studies - Labour History - Family History Coping with Absence: Gender Roles and Coping Mechanisms of Merchant Seafaring Househo…

Paul Parizel onbezoldigd gastprofessor Publicaties Paul Parizel Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators Bron EBioMedicine - ISSN 2352-3964-121 (2025) p. 1-15 Auteur(s) Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E. Magnus, Jo…

Back to the Future search menu search content Presentations Past Futures I : an Individual Perspective on Temporality and Future Practice(s) Some of our team members presented their research at the European Social Science History Conference in Göteborg on the 14th of April 2023. Jeroen opened the f…

Jeroen Puttevils associate research professor Research Jeroen Puttevils Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Medieval history, Middle Ages, Urban history, Economic history, Cultural History, Lottery, history of the future, future thinking, Financial History, Political History Future Plan…

Thijs Vande Vyvere onbezoldigd gastprofessor Publicaties Thijs Vande Vyvere Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators Bron EBioMedicine - ISSN 2352-3964-121 (2025) p. 1-15 Auteur(s) Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E…

Tomas Menovsky associate professor Publications Tomas Menovsky Real-world evidence in lumbar degenerative disease : from data to decision Source Antwerp, University of Antwerp & Hasselt University,182 p. Author(s) Vincent Raymaekers, Mark Plazier, Tomas Menovsky Citation link Aspects of hemorrhage &…

A-PECS search menu search content Defended PhDs All PhD theses: 2024 Noelia Felipe Montiel - Voltage against illicit drug trafficking. Capabilities of electrochemical fingerprinting to detect illicit drugs (2024/03/29) - Promotor: Karolien De Wael Jonas Schram - Electrochemical sensing strategies fo…

Molecular Imaging and Radiology (MIRA) search menu search content Publications Cyste van het ligamentum flavum : een zeldzaam letsel van de wervelkolom Source Ortho-rhumato - ISSN 1379-8928-23:5 (2025) p. 33-34 Author(s) Floris Dieusaert, Stephanie Vanden Bossche, Filip Vanhoenacker Citation link Ky…

Back to the Future search menu search content Team members Jeroen Puttevils Jeroen Puttevils (° 1985) is Principal Investigator of the Back to the Future project and lecturer at the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp. He specializes in the history of urban societies, the interact…

Paul Parizel unpaid guest prof. Publications Paul Parizel Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators Source EBioMedicine - ISSN 2352-3964-121 (2025) p. 1-15 Author(s) Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E. Magnus, John K…

Steven Van Passel gewoon hoogleraar - vicerector Research projects (completed) Steven Van Passel 50 projects for about 7 288 300 Euro Cashew value chain in Bénin, Short-Term Policy Supporting Research DGD, 2020-2021, UA: 12 000 Euro Shaping the market for clean technologies: managing the transition…

Thijs Vande Vyvere unpaid guest prof. Publications Thijs Vande Vyvere Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators Source EBioMedicine - ISSN 2352-3964-121 (2025) p. 1-15 Author(s) Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E. Ma…

Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga unpaid staff Research Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga Research team Centre for Urban History A woman's lot. Women's participation in the public sphere in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries (1450-1650) by means of lottery-rhymes. 01/11/2019 - 31/10/2023 A…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content 15th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries Tuesday 23 May 2023 10h - 17h30 Followed by an evening lecture by Dr. David Wertheim at 20h. Venue: City Campus University of Antwerp Contact Day: Hof van Liere - Prentenkabinet, Prinsstraat 1…

Hilde Greefs full professor Research Hilde Greefs Research team Centre for Urban History Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examines the role of gambling an…

Steven Van Passel full research professor - vice-rector Research projects Steven Van Passel 50 projects for about 7 288 300 Euro Cashew value chain in Bénin, Short-Term Policy Supporting Research DGD, 2020-2021, UA: 12 000 Euro Shaping the market for clean technologies: managing the transition to s…

Back to the Future search menu search content Project bibliography Throughout the project we have built a bibliography that can serve the scholarly community interested in the following subjects: - histories of the future/futures - theories of history - histories of merchants and merchant correspond…

Back to the Future search menu search content Blog Betting on the Next Pope ... in Antwerp in 1559 7/5/2025 By Jeroen Puttevils On 22 April 2025, just a day after Pope Francis I’s death, the sports betting agency Ladbrokes offered to bet on who would become the next Holy Father and what papal name…

Jeroen Puttevils Starting Grant 2019 How our ancestors viewed the future What did people in the past think about the future and how did this affect their actions? This is the question the EU-funded Back2theFuture project will try to answer. It will draw on a highly innovative combination of close an…