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Jens van de Maele

Jens van de Maele

Postdoctoral researcher

Faculté ou Centre Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Department Digital History and Historiography
Adresse postale Université du Luxembourg
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
Bureau sur le campus MSH, E04 25-400
E-mail
Téléphone (+352) 46 66 44 9255

Jens van de Maele has studied  History at the universities of Leuven and Vancouver. He obtained his PhD from the universities of Ghent and Antwerp, with a dissertation on the political and architectural histories of ministry office buildings in Belgium during the interwar period. Jens has published on architectural history and urban environmental history.

Currently, he coordinates the BUREU research project, which has been financed through the CORE programme of the FNR. BUREU aims to investigate how the interiors of EU office buildings (1950s-2000) affected the process of European integration on the level of everyday  material and bureaucratic practices. A transnational project, BUREU draws on the expertise of both C²DH and the research group MoSa at the University of Leuven.

From late 2019 until mid-2022, Jens was involved in the Remixing industrial pasts in the digital age project. As a member of the curatorial team of the virtual exhibition Minett Stories, he (co-)wrote chapters on air pollution and photographic culture in Luxembourg's Minett region. Prior to this (2017-2018), Jens was the co-curator of the exhibition "Brussels, November 1918: From War to Peace?" (BELvue Museum, Brussels). 

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2023

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See detailRecensie van: Sieger Vreeling, Geen stijl: Een rijkere architectuurgeschiedenis
van de Maele, Jens

in Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (2023), 138

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2022

See detailOrganising a “Temporary History Lab” in Esch-sur-Alzette (2019)
Harnoncourt, Julia; van de Maele, Jens

Scientific Conference (2022, August 17)

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See detailA Dusty Road to the Riviera?
van de Maele, Jens

Article for general public (2022)

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See detailThe Minett: Dirty or Beautiful?
van de Maele, Jens

in Remixing Industrial Pasts: Constructing the Identity of the Minett (Exhibition guide, Massenoire, Belval, 27.02-15.05.2022) (2022)

See detailA Dusty Road to the Riviera?
van de Maele, Jens

in Jaspers, Susanne; Scuto, Denis (Eds.) This Hard Minett Land (2022)

See detailBiller aus dem Minett
van de Maele, Jens; Boretska, Viktoria; Krebs, Stefan

Computer development (2022)

See detailMinettsmap 1980s
van de Maele, Jens; Boretska, Viktoria; Krebs, Stefan

Computer development (2022)

See detailZuhause mit Ketty und Catherine
van de Maele, Jens; Harnoncourt, Julia

Computer development (2022)

See detailAir pollution visualised
van de Maele, Jens; Krebs, Stefan

Computer development (2022)

See detailSteel, smoke and dust
van de Maele, Jens; Krebs, Stefan

Computer development (2022)

See detailDr Mousel looks at dusty skies
van de Maele, Jens; Krebs, Stefan

Computer development (2022)

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2021

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See detailTagungsbericht: Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities
Derian, Maxime; van de Maele, Jens

in Moderne Stadtgeschichte (2021), (1), 145-150

See detailExploring the Past in Public: Recent Public History Exchanges in Southern Luxembourg
Harnoncourt, Julia; van de Maele, Jens

Scientific Conference (2021, October 07)

See detailHistorical Voices from the Minett: A Public History Video Presentation in Esch-sur-Alzette
Harnoncourt, Julia; van de Maele, Jens

Scientific Conference (2021, June 17)

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See detailThe Twentieth-Century Ministerial Office Building as a Laboratory of Government
van de Maele, Jens

in Moderne Stadtgeschichte (2021), (2), 147-166

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2020

See detailMaking History Together: Public Participation in Museums
Cauvin, Thomas; Konstantinou, Katerina; Boccalatte, Paola; Chaudhur, Diviani; Povroznik, Nadezhda; Quoc-Tan, Tran; Yuta, Hashimoto; Makoto, Goto; Akihiro, Kameda; Berta, Erika; Ferloni, Julia; Camarda, Antonella; Malone, Lucy; Brosseau, Cédric; Lemay-Perreault, Rébéca; Maximova, Alisa; Redgate, Isabella; Dolgoy, Rebecca; Ayukawa, Carla; Trudel, Chantal; Everrett, Tom; Priem, Karin; Schafer, Valerie; van de Maele, Jens; Wieneke, Lars; Landau, Blandine; Morse, Christopher

Scientific Conference (2020, December 15)

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2019

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See detailGläserne Zwischenwände für effektive Kontrollen: Das belgische Regierungsbüro in der Zwischenkriegszeit
van de Maele, Jens

in Bernasconi, Gianenrico; Nellen, Stefan (Eds.) Das Büro: Zur Rationalisierung des Interieurs, 1880-1960 (2019)

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See detailFrom Bentham to Guadet: ‘Auditory visibility’ in nineteenth-century theories on government offices
van de Maele, Jens

in International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (2019), 7

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2018

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See detailBruxelles, novembre 1918 : De la guerre à la paix ?
van de Maele, Jens; Kesteloot, Chantal

in Science Connection (2018)

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2017

See detailLes immeubles de bureaux / De bureaugebouwen
van de Maele, Jens; Devos, Rika

in Pesztat, Yaron (Ed.) Blaton, une dynastie de constructeurs / Blaton, een dynastie van bouwers (2017)

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2016

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See detailAn 'architecture of bureaucracy': Technocratic planning of government architecture in Belgium in the 1930s
van de Maele, Jens

in Lloyd Thomas, Katie; Amhoff, Tilo; Beech, Nick (Eds.) Industries of Architecture (2016)

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2014

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2013

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See detail“Ik heb sinds jaren geen buiten meer gezien”. De beleving en verbeelding van stads- en plattelandsnatuur in de vroege romans van Lode Baekelmans
van de Maele, Jens

in Bertels, Inge; Furnée, Jan-Hein; Sintobin, Tom; Vandevoorde, Hans; Van de Schoor, Rob (Eds.) Tussen beleving en verbeelding: De stad in de negentiende-eeuwse literatuur (2013)

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2012

See detailVan parochiezaal tot wereldnetwerk: 25 jaar C.V. Varkenszorg
van de Maele, Jens

Book published by Centrum voor Agrarische Geschiedenis (2012)

See detailFelbevochten vergroeningen: Het Leuvense stadsnatuurbeleid, 1918-1958
van de Maele, Jens

Book published by Peeters / Salsa (2012)

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2010

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