Thursday, 7th July 2016
13.30 Welcome
14.00-16.00
Ethnic Cleansing & Nationalities Policy (Moderation TATAJANA TÖNSMEYER)
JAKOB MÜLLER (FREE UNIVERSITY BERLIN), Learning from failure - The First World War and its impact on the Volkstumspolitik (nationality policy) of the German Military Administration in Belgium in 1940
KATJA HAPPE (UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG), The Jewish Council in the Netherlands – Searching for a pathway in difficult times
MARIEKE OPREL (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM), Occupied by the Germans. German enemy aliens in the Netherlands
ALEXA STILLER (UNIVERSITY OF BERN), Population Removal as a Technique of Domination: A Comparison of Nazi Occupation Policy in the East, the West, and the Southeast of the Greater German Reich, 1939-1944
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
Economic & Social Policy (Moderation STEFAN MARTENS)
KENNETH BERTRAMS/SABINE RUDISCHHAUSER (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN), German ambitions and Belgian expectations: Social insurance and industrial relations in occupied Belgium 1940-1944
DANIEL HADWIGER (UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN), Constructing a Socialist Europe? Role and reception of the German Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt in occupied France and the Netherlands,
1940–1945
AGNES LABA (UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL), State legitimacy through food supply? A few considerations on the political and social implications of the rationing system in post-liberation France
18.30-19.30 Evening Lecture by Prof. Dr hab. PIOTR MADAJCZYK (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences PAN; Department of German Studies): Der Krieg im Osten. Widerstand - Alltag - Kollaboration
Friday, 8th July 2016
9.00-10.30
Encounter & Experience (Moderation KRIJN THIJS)
BYRON SCHIRBOCK (UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE /DHI PARIS), Everyday life, practices and experiences. German soldiers in occupied France 1940-1944
RICK TAZELAAR (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM), The conductor Willem Mengelberg and the development of a ‘new’ Dutch musical scene during the German Occupation 1940-1944
RAPHAEL SPINA (UNIVERSITY OF AIX-MARSEILLE), The Compulsory labour draft: An enforced opportunity for some French civilians to meet the German population
10.20-11.00 Coffee break with light snacks
11.30-13.00
Legacies, Burdens, Aftermath (Moderation: CHRISTINA MORINA)
FELIX BOHR (UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN), A burden from the Second World War? The ‘Breda Four’ and the fate of German-Dutch relations
JONAS CAMPION (UNIVERSITY OF LILLE), The legacies of WWII in public security in Western Europe: The Belgian, French and Dutch gendarmerie policing cases
13.00-13.30 Closing Discussion
From 13.30 Departure
13.30-15.00
Internal Meeting of the “Working Group on German-Dutch History” (‘Arbeitskreis deutsch-niederländische Geschichte – Werkgroep Duits-Nederlandse geschiedenis’) (ADNG-WDNG)