Agenda
Farewell event and reception Professor Angelique Janssens
On the occasion of her retirement, the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History is hosting a farewell event and reception for Professor Angélique Janssens on 29 August 2025.
Angélique Janssens is endowed Professor of Historical Demography at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her chair, located at Maastricht University, was devoted to topics relating to gender and labour. She is specialised in the history of mortality, medical history and causes of death. She was the principal investigator in three major project over the past years: the SHiP Project, the NWO project ‘Lifting the burden of disease’, and the Citizen Science project for the History of Health. She is also former Scientific Director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute.
You are kindly invited to join the celebrations for her retirement. For catering purposes, prior registration is requested.
Please note that this event will be preceded by the two-day symposium ‘How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)’ with a keynote lecture by Professor Sheilah Ogilvie (University of Oxford).
The N.W. Posthumus Institute thanks Professor Janssens for the efforts made by her for the N.W. Posthumus Institute.
