Description

This round table aims to take stock of current debates about Belgian memory of World War II by addressing the history of collaboration in Belgium and the role that cultural products, including literary texts and digital resources, have played in the articulation of a memory of the past.. 

Speakers

• Professor Bruno de Wever (Ghent University)
• Dr Chantal Kesteloot (CegeSoma/Archives de l’Etat)
• Professor Kevin Absillis (University of Antwerp)

Chair: Professor Koen Aerts (Ghent University)

The roundtable will mark the beginning of the international conference Complicities in the Second World War: Literature of Occupation, Collaboration, and Impure Resistance.

Further information: https://www.literatureofoccupation.ugent.be