DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER
(Chaired by Serge Jaumain – Université libre de Bruxelles)
14:30 Welcome and introductory speeches
By Sabine Laruelle, Minister of Science Policy (represented by Sophie
Van Malleghem), Philippe Mettens (chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Belgian Federal Science Policy), Jean-François Chanet (Université de Lille III), Rudi Van Doorslaer (CEGES-SOMA).
15:00 Keynote speech on War and Society in Europe from Napoleon to the Present by Richard Evans (University of Cambridge).
16:00 Reception
18:00 Social event organized by the association Friends of the CEGES-SOMA
Showing of the movie Katyn (2007) by Andrzej Wajda (French spoken
with Dutch subtitles), (in the conference room of the CEGES-SOMA at
the Square de l’Aviation / Luchtvaartsquare 29, 1070 Brussels).
DAY 2 THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER
09:15 2 parallel sessions (coffee break at 11:00)
WAR AND LAW (Chaired by Xavier Rousseaux –
Université catholique de Louvain and Herbert Reimke –
Technische Universität Berlin)
Police, Law and People during the World Wars in Europe
(Benoît Majerus - Université libre de Bruxelles)
War Crimes and their Treatment during the World Wars in Europe
(Gerd Hankel - Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung)
The Execution of Soldiers during World War I and II
(Robert Lilly - Northern Kentucky University)
SCIENCE AND WAR (Chaired by Patrice Bret –
Institut de Recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire -
Centre des hautes Etudes de l’Armement, Paris)
Civilian/Military Hide and Seek : French Laboratories Fighting for
Research, 1907-1955 (Patrice Bret - Institut de Recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire - Centre des hautes Etudes de l’Armement, Paris)
What Game Theory Can Contribute to the Analysis of 20th Century
wars? (Philippe Mongin – Centre national de la Recherche scientifique
& Ecole des hautes Etudes commerciales, Paris)
The War of Guns and Mathematics: French Artillerymen,
Ballisticians and Mathematicians in World War I
(David Aubin – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
“Special Detection” in France and in Italy during the First World
War (Martina Schiavon – Archives Henri Poincaré/Université Nancy 2)
12:00 General discussion (Chaired by Louis Vos –
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 3 parallel sessions (coffee break at 16:00)
WAR AND GENDER (Chaired by Ana Carden-Coyne –
University of Manchester)
The Image of the Soldier: Fascism, Militarism, Masculinity and
Nation from the First to the Second World War (Lorenzo Benadusi –
Università degli Studi di Bergamo
The Politics of Wounds (Ana Carden-Coyne – University of
Manchester)
Is War a Man’s World? Male and Female Guerillas in the Greek Civil
War, 1946-1949 (Polymeris Voglis – University of Thessaly)
Affective Economies: Women and Violence in Press Photography
(Marta Zarzycka - Universiteit Utrecht)
WAR AND PROPAGANDA (Chaired by Irene Di Jorio –
Université libre de Bruxelles)
The NATO Information Service Between Intelligence and
Propaganda, 1949-1989 (Linda Risso - University of Reading)
Battleground Eastern Europe: Media, Propaganda and the Early
Cold War (Marsha Siefert - Central European University, Budapest)
“Today Germany, Tomorrow the World.” Nazi Propaganda and
Total War, 1919-1945 (David Welch - University of Kent)
Italy vs. Austria: Reassessing a Great Propaganda Battle of the
Great War (Nicola Labanca - Università di Siena)
Propaganda and Foreign Intervention during the Spanish Civil
War (Alejandro Pizarroso Quintero - Universidad Complutense de
Madrid)
WAR ENDINGS (Chaired by Peter Schrijvers –
University of New South Wales, Sydney)
France at the End of World War II: an Aftermath Full of
Contrasts (Guillaume Piketty - Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po,
Paris)
The Purged in Postwar France: Putting the Liberation on Film.
(Karen Adler - University of Nottingham)
Between the 1945 Nationalist Revolution and the 1948
Communist Coup: The Third Czechoslovak Republic and the
Legacy of World War Two (Benjamin Frommer - Northwestern
University, Chicago)
In America’s Image? Reconstructing Dutch Identity after world
war II (Jaap Verheul - Universiteit Utrecht)
How to kill the living dead? The Persistence of the World Wars
during Post-War periods in Belgium (Marnix Beyen – Universiteit
Antwerpen)
17:30 General discussion; conclusions of the day (Chaired by Jean-
François Chanet – Université de Lille III). End 18:30.
DAY 3 FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER
09:15 2 parallel sessions (coffee break at 11:00)
ECONOMY (Chaired by Dirk Luyten – CEGES-SOMA)
The Consequences of War for Multinationals in Europe
(Ben Wubs - Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Black Markets, Clandestine Production and Macro-Economic Series
(Hein Klemann - Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Changing Economic Elites in France and Germany from Collaboration
to Cooperation in the Afterwar (Hervé Joly - Laboratoire de Recherches historiques Rhône-Alpes, Université de Lyon)
Economic Exploitation in the East (Sergei Kudryashov - Deutsches
Historisches Institut Moscow)
Between State Coercion and Absolute Business Autonomy. Room
for Manoeuvre and Expectations of German Enterprises in the
”Third Reich” (Ralf Banken & Werner Plumpe - Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt)
Multinational Enterprise, Ideological Challenge and the coming
of the Second World War (Neil Forbes - Coventry University)
WAR AND ETHNICITY (Chaired by Bruno De Wever –
Universiteit Gent)
The European Order of Lausanne vs. the European Order of
Versailles. The Domino-effect of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe
(Pieter Lagrou – Université libre de Bruxelles)
Ethnic Cleansing as a Tool in Developing Citizenship and State
Security in New Nation States, Particularly in Central and Eastern
Europe (Pieter van der Plank - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
The Palestinian Exile in Lebanon ((Jihane Sfeir - Université libre de
Bruxelles)
How much sense does the framework “ethnic cleansing” make
for analyzing World War II violence in Europe? (Christian Gerlach
– Universität Bern)
12:15 Final discussion and closing remarks
(Chaired by Rudi Van Doorslaer – CEGES-SOMA). End 13:15