22 June 2017
11.00 – Registration
12.00 – Welcome and Keynote
Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Penn State/Kent) – Military Occupations, ‘Sacrifice’, and the Social Contract in Two World Wars
13.00 – Lunch
14.00-16.45 – Session One: Elites and Governance – (Chair: Nico Wouters, CegeSoma & Ghent)
- Philip Boobbyer (Kent) – Pragmatism and Indirect Rule: Lord Rennell and Military Government in Africa and Italy, 1940-1943
- Jan Naert (Ghent) – Governing under Occupation: Belgian and French Mayors during and after World War One, 1914-1921?
- Jan Julia Zurné (CegeSoma) – Maintaining Order in Occupied Belgium? The Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office and Wartime Political Violence, 1940-1950
15.30-16.00 – Tea
- Markus Wahl (IGM, Stuttgart) – Dictated or Guided? Shaping the ‘New’ Socialist Healthcare System in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, 1945-1949
- Peter Romijn (NIOD, University of Amsterdam) – Dutch Functional Elites in the ‘Long Second World War’, 1940-1949
17.15-17.45 – Break
17.45-18.45 – Book Launch and Panel Discussion
Nico Wouters will briefly present his new book Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation Belgium, the Netherlands and the North of France (1938-46), followed by a panel discussion between the author and Pieter Lagrou (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Martin Conway (Oxford University) and Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Penn State/Kent), moderated by Stefan Goebel (Kent).
Followed by Wine Reception
20.00 – Conference Dinner, Café du Soleil, Canterbury
23 June 2017
MORNING SESSION
9.00-10.45 – Session 2: Spaces (chair: Stefan Goebel)
- Ismee Tames (NIOD) – Moving through Liminal Spaces in Occupation
- Nigel Perrin (Kent) – Spaces of Resistance in Occupied Paris, 1940-1944
- Christoph Mick (Warwick) – Two Occupations: Lviv 1914/15 and 1939/41
10.45-11.15 – Coffee
11.15 -13.00 - Session 3: Social Groups and Dynamics (chair: Bruno De Wever)
- Gertjan Leenders (Ghent) – Denunciation to the Enemy in Belgium during the First and Second World War
- Helen Grevers (Ghent) – The People and the Purge: Grassroots Dynamics of the Punishment of Collaborators in Leuven, 1944-1947
- Jovana Knezevic (Stanford)– The Transformation of the Serbian National Capital during the First World War
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
14.00-15.45 – Session 4: Experiences and Memories (chair: Juliette Pattinson)
- Ludivine Broch (Westminster) – The Merci Train: Remembering the World Wars in 52,000 Objects
- Cécile Vast (Franche-Comté) – The Experience of Resistance and the Issue of Collective Behaviour under Occupation in France: Memories and History
- Barbara Deruytter (Ghent) – Popular Sentiments, Ideas and Experiences Expressed in Songs during and Shortly after the Occupation of Belgium, 1914-1918
15.45-16.15 – Closing Comments
16.15-17.00 – Coffee