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Jasper Segerink

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Postdoc at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Interested in lodging houses, migration history and urban history.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Wrote about the Dutch higher education crisis and why a strike without suspending exams or classes is just cosplay. @jacobinnl.bsky.social jacobin.nl/een-hoger-on...
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Een hoger onderwijsstaking die het beleid geen pijn doet is cosplay – Jacobin
Vorige week was er een staking in het hoger onderwijs. 7000 academici en studenten trokken naar Amsterdam, maar niemand leek echt acht te slaan op de staking. Want hoewel de universiteiten de staking ...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Ook in Brussel vorige week zag je het gevolg (of eerder non-gevolg) van een ‘pijnloze’ staking van HO. Maar: een staking die wél pijn doet aan beleid, doet dat in 1e instantie aan huidige studenten. Een nobele zaak op de lange termijn, zeker, maar ook een stevige opoffering om van hen te vragen...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The special issue, planned for print in March 2026, features articles by Torsten Feys on Belgium, Laurent Tissot on Lausanne, Sigrid Wadauer on Austria, Kevin James (twice) and Alan McNee on the UK, and myself on Antwerp - of course. Warmly recommended!
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
So happy that our special issue 'Controlling mobile guests where they rest' is online at @imm-min-journal.bsky.social! It shows how hotel registration offers us a powerful lens on the entangled histories of migration & tourism, touching on important politics, people and performances often neglected👇
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Introduction – Controlling mobile guests where they rest. Comparative perspectives on hotel registration in Europe, 1840s–1930s
At the intersection of tourism and migration history, this special issue focuses on the roles of registration documents and practices in European hotels during the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Effectief!
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📢 Nieuwe publicatie! Jasper Segerink onderzoekt in “Een nacht in de stad” hoe trans-Atlantische migranten (1850–1914) tijdelijk verbleven in Antwerpen en welke sporen ze nalieten. Meer informatie op de website van HistoriANT: gvag.be/historiant/2...
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Stef Espeel @stefespeel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New book publication ❗ 📖 Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique. It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿 #medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges For the contents, see below 👇
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Prices and Crises
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
For the past few months, I have been using Obsidian, and I'm loving it. It is free, open access, easy to use, and allows you to link notes to each other. 🤯
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yesterday, the news broke that the Flemish government will end funding for @iobua.bsky.social in just 3 months! This risks students’ futures, 32 staff careers, & undermines a cornerstone of Belgium’s hard-won international scientific reputation. A short-sighted decision with lasting consequences...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.
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Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom - The Econometric Society
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️
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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Earlier this year, Vicky Holmes published 'Living with Lodgers. Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England'. It is a great book that not only rescues the lodger from the mists of history, but also invites us to question Victorian household ideals. Highly recommended!👇
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Bringing Dead Victorians Back to Life: What Coroner’s Inquests Can Teach Us about Victorian Working-Class Homes
In June 1894, in her kitchen at 17 Lomas Street in the town of Burnley, Lancashire, Mary Ann Allen was murdered with an axe by William Crossley, one of her
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Loved the Pfälzer Wandermusikanten workshop @ Kusel! The Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde brilliantly connected 'academic' with 'local' historians. The castle setting and hearing the music performed live by the Kusel Music Academy were unforgettable experiences. A 🧵 following soon..
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Vincent Scheltiens Ortigosa @vschelti.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🔗Archief Stadsgeschiedenis nu digitaal! Het archief van het tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis is nu digitaal toegankelijk! Nummers van het tijdschrift van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Het digitale archief is hier te vinden: lup.be/archief-stad...
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Archief Stadsgeschiedenis | Leuven University Press
Nummers van het tijdschrift ‘Stadsgeschiedenis’ van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Klik op het nummer voor de downloadlink. 2006 – 1 > 2006 – 2 > 2007 – 1 > 2007 – 2 > 2008 – 1 > ...
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌍 Toerisme: zegen of last? Al in 1926 dachten Belgen aan een “taks op vreemdelingen” toen toeristen het land overspoelden. 🖋️ Lees de nieuwe CSG-blog van Silke Geven over de geschiedenis van klachten én maatregelen rond toerisme: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
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“Van de kwade der vreemde bezoekers, verlos ons heer!” | Centre for Urban History | University of Antwerp
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
(Sorry if obvious 😅)
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dominiek Dendooven has a great thesis on the (de)mobilisation of Indians and Chinese at the Belgian front! "Asia In Flanders Fields. A Transnational History of Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914-1920" repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Voor diegenen die denken dat de systematische afbouw van onderzoek en hoger onderwijs enkel een zorg is voor de humane wetenschappen 👇
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Susan Monarez, de wetenschapper in het oog van de storm: ‘Dit zou elke Amerikaan bang moeten maken’
Een nieuwe dag, een nieuw ontslag in het ‘Land of the Free’. Het Witte Huis zegt het hoofd van de gezondheidsdienst CDC de wacht aan. Maar de kersverse topvrouw wijkt niet. ‘Minister Kennedy brengt mi...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now. Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now. Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What is the difference between a historian and a sociologist? A long time scale and bad data. Perhaps a bit reductive but on point what the data concerns 🤣 Sam Bass Warner being interviewed by Bruce Stave in the first issue of Journal of Urban History in 1974
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Journal of Austrian-American History @jaustamerhist.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
From the editor's desk... ... if anyone is thinking about writing an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger, we would love to see it.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Ik voel me bijzonder vereerd seg. Dankje! 😁
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🖋️ For the Social History Blog, I wrote a piece on the often banal reasons that research (and especially PhD)-projects pivot, and the implications this has for our craft. Hopefully this can also offer some reassurance for new PhD-students.. A lodging house guy's reflection 👇
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How we shape research projects, and how they shape us - A lodging house guy’s reflection by Jasper Segerink - Social History Blog
Urban and social history projects on infrastructures, migrants, lodging houses in 19th-century Belgium.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Serieuzer nu: het zou wel fijn zijn als onze journalistiek iets kritischer zou omspringen met de verkoopspraatjes van techbros
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Uhu Ok 👍
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
De puntkomma is aan het verdwijnen! Toch worden er in De Wereld van Sofie enkele mooie argumenten aangehaald voor het behoud ervan. Ik maak me ook wel es schuldig aan overvloedige ;'s...
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De Wereld van Sofie · Episode
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Source: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935
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Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI
Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, ...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New Microsoft study estimates that historians are the *2nd* occupation whose tasks AI can mostly cover, based on a large database of its Copilot users & their reported satisfaction. That AI makes a poor historian is imo not a debate, but the fact that so many turn to LLMs for history is concerning.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
One like, one history of poverty opinion
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Reading that even Mozart found it difficult to find time to write gives me hope in difficult times 🥲 Seen at the Mozart Geburtshaus in Salzburg.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hi Chloë, sounds intriguing! Indeed Hilde, Anne and Kristof Loockx have written extensively on migration, sex work and life in Antwerp's sailortown. It also features in my dissertation as one of the neighbourhoods of interest. If you want, I can mail you a fuller reading list later!
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🗣️ Public lecture On the 2nd of July Prof. em. Carl Nightingale will give a public lecture titled ‘Urban History and Earth Time: Five Big Stories About Cities and Their Planet’. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Register before Friday 30 June via this link: lnkd.in/e67JhpDd
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢Vacature: PhD-student gezocht Geïnteresseerd in geschiedenis, migratie, pendel en/of transport? Het @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social zoekt een voltijdse (100% - 4 jaar) doctoraatsstudent voor het BOF-Impuls-project "verstedelijking voorbij gravitatiemodellen". Solliciteren kan nog tot 30 juni!
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New Open Access Article written by Sigrid Wadauer on 'Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century' Check it out via the link below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Habsburg Austria, regulations permitted residents free movement, while at the same time the government strived for ubiquitous monitoring and surveill...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In conclusion, housekeepers were a heterogeneous group, and increasingly so as migration and urban space expanded and diversified. Taking their point of view opens the door (badum-tss) to unexplored perspectives on past migrant-urban encounters. Want to read more?: doi.org/10.1080/0307...
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Our lodging house in the middle of the street: a socio-spatial analysis of three cohorts of lodging housekeepers, Antwerp 1850–1880
Lodging housekeepers occupy a dual role in social history. They are firmly established as protagonists in some of social history’s key debates on migration, (female) labour and housing for their ro...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Result 5: This heightened volatility is undoubtedly a consequence of Antwerp's violent port-modernisation, which created a largely low-skilled and seasonally-bound labour market. Yet, housekeepers dealt w these challenges in their own ways: advertising, expanding, relocating, were all strategies.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
How did housekeepers run a business in such a volatile world? Migrants housekeepers capitalised best on urban changes, being entrepreneurially oriented. Foreign migrants capitalised on transit neighbourhoods (railway & harbour) while local housekeepers operated in some of the worst slums (Result 4).
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Result 3: The demand of migrant accommodation increased consistently throughout the century yet, interestingly, this did not create a more 'stable' lodging house sector. Instead housekeepers diversified their incomes, and kept businesses running for shorter times.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Result 2 The police inspection reports indicate that around 80% of establishments was run by men. This is an overrepresentation. Like the Gazzanos also show, women often actually ran the business, in name of their partner. This actually gave them a lot of independence compared to other working women
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Result 1: like Gazzano, many households were headed by migrants. Although quite surprisingly, many locals too. Housekeepers did not mirror Antwerp's migrant population. Instead it represented those groups most in need of shelter, which for example included many local dockers and workers.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Although omnipresent and vital for cities, little is known about lodging housekeepers. In my recent article in Social History, I sought to understand this group: who were they, and how did they organise their daily lives? As a case I used the drastically expanding city of Antwerp (1850-1880).
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The lodging house and its keeper were a staple of past urban societies. By adopting strangers (for shorter or longer terms) they gave cities a necessary flexibility in housing migrant workers. In the Gazzano case, this was mostly Italian sailors, which gave Maria an income when Luca was at sea.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Accommodating strangers as lodgers into the household has historically been a widespread phenomenon, with estimations of up to 1/4 of all urban households. Some families turned this into their profession: the lodging housekeeper, like Luca Gazzano and Maria Beckers in late 19th C Antwerp.
Source, Felixarchief Antwerpen, Foreigner File Luca Gazzano, nr 69.243.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lodging housekeepers occupy a dual role in history: they are well established in key debates on housing, work, and migration, yet they are rarely the main subject of historical analysis. A small 🧵 on what studying this group teaches about this subject based on my new article in #SocialHistory
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Talrijke problemen die de hoofdstad vandaag geselen (vluchtelingenopvang, bendegeweld, verpaupering, de zwaar verloederde stationsbuurten) worden maar al te graag als exclusief Brussels voorgesteld. Dat zijn ze allerminst". Historicus Anton Jäger scherp in De Morgen. www.demorgen.be/meningen/een...
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Een herfederalisering is zeker een democratisch schandaal voor een stad die haar eigen vertegenwoordigers kiest
Anton Jäger is historicus van het politieke denken en doceert aan de universiteit van Oxford. Zijn column verschijnt tweewekelijks.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Laat nog maar eens zien hoe belangrijk de strijd om concepten is in het publieke debat rond migratie. Deze strijd wordt voorlopig nogal eenzijdig gevoerd.
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Thomas Willekens @thomaswillekens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Doen alsof België geconfronteerd wordt met een ontzettend hoog aantal asielaanvragen uit Moldavië en dat 'asieltoerisme' bestempelen is toch wel écht van een mug een olifant maken. Toch straf dat bijna niemand zich daar kritische vragen bij lijkt te stellen.
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