Wednesday, 26 October

17.30 Arrival & Registration

18.00 Welcome by Denis Scuto

18.15 Keynote “Historicizing Experiences of War: Profits and Pitfalls of Narratological Approaches”
Jörg Echternkamp, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) / Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

19.30 End of Day 1

Thursday, 27 October

09.00 Registration

09.15 PANEL 1 - Mechanisms of recruitment and military service
Moderator: Peter M. Quadflieg
Naturalisation and Military Service during the Second World War
Denis Scuto, C²DH, University of Luxembourg

Being a Soldier – Between individual and soldierly experientality of Luxembourgish recruits in WWII
Nina Janz, C²DH, University of Luxembourg

Fighting for the enemy: recruitment of Slovenians for the Waffen-SS during the Second World War
Klemen Kocjancic, Defence Research Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 PANEL 2 - Shifting allegiances
Moderator: Christoph Brüll

Identity change as a survival strategy: Forcibly mobilized Wehrmacht soldiers applying for the Allied armies-in-exile
Zdenko Maršálek, Institute of Contemporary History/Czech Academy of Sciences

From ‘forced conscription’ to compulsory military service: Luxembourg’s ‘forced conscripts’ and the question of post-war military service
Felix Streicher, Department of History, Maastricht University
Nina Janz, C²DH, University of Luxembourg

Friends and/or Enemies? Conflicting Loyalties among Soldiers Fighting Both in the German Army and the Allied Forces
Machteld Venken, C²DH, University of Luxembourg

13.15 Lunch break

14.30 PANEL 3 - War experiences from below
Moderator: Sonja Kmec

Adaptive Stances of East Belgians in the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1940-1945). Insights Through Ego Documents
Philippe Beck, Zentrum für Ostbelgische Geschichte & UCLouvain

Forcibly Mobilised Slovene Soldiers in Wehrmacht – Diaries' Analysis of their War Experiences
Monika Kokalj Kočevar, National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia

15.30 Coffee break

15.45 Paper and ink in the Soviet camp 188 in Tambov: capturing the camp life of Luxembourger conscripts
Inna Ganschow, C²DH, University of Luxembourg

Navigating War and Identity: Malgré-nous Marc(z)ell Wolfersberger in the German Army, 1942-1944
David W. Wildermuth, Shippensburg State University

18.30 Keynote “'Forced conscripts' in history and memory”
Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University

20.00 Dinner for the participants

Friday, 28 October

09.30 PANEL 4 - Draft evasion, desertion, imprisonment and their consequences
Moderator: Jean-Noel Grandhomme

Family liability and Umsiedlung – Consequences of desertion on families of Luxembourgish recruits (1942-1945)
Sarah Maya Vercruysse, C²DH, University of Luxembourg

Beihilfe zur Fahnenflucht in der Rechtsprechung der deutschen Sondergerichten auf den besetzten Gebieten Polens (1939-1945)
Konrad Graczyk, University of Silesia in Katowice & Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw

10.30 Coffee break

10.45 La captivité des Malgré-Nous alsaciens & mosellans chez les Alliés anglo-saxons
Philippe Gény, l’École Doctorale de l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne

Alsatian Draft Evaders in Switzerland (1942-1945)
Tobias Kossytor, European University Institute

11.45 Closing discussion

12.15 Lunch

Registration: https://ulsurvey.uni.lu/index.php/589372?lang=en