Forced and Coerced Labour: Comparing Colonial Spaces and Global Conflicts.
Brussels, CEGESOMA, 19 March 2015.
The workshop will take place at CEGESOMA, 29, Square de l’Aviation, 1070 Brussels.
Schedule
9 – 9. 30 : Welcoming and registration.
9. 30 - 9.45 : Opening speech, Benoît HENRIET & Pascaline LE POLAIN (Université Saint Louis – Brussels).
10.00-11.45 : Panel 1 : Workforce mobilisation.
Chair : Ulbe BOSMA (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam).
10.00 – 10.15 : Kathleen RAHN (Leipzig Universität) : Forced labour in the prisons in German South-West Africa (1884-1914). Practices of working recruitment and spaces of production of modern knowledge of punishment.
10.15 – 10. 30 : Camille FAUROUX (EHESS – Paris). Mobilizing French Women for the War Industry: Gender, Labour, Collaboration, 1939-1945.
10. 30-10.45 : Thomas IRMER (Rummelsburg Memorial, Berlin). The perspective of German industry on forced labour from German colonialism to the Nazi era - the example of the German electrical company AEG.
10.45-11.00 : Sebastiaan VANDENBOGAERDE (Universiteit Ghent). Forced labour during WWI in Belgium from legal historical point of view.
11.00 -11.45 : Discussion.
11.45-12.00 Break.
12.00-13. 00 – Keynote Lecture : Alessandro STANZIANI (EHESS, Paris): Coerced Labour in Asia and Europe, 17th-20th centuries.
13.00 – 14.00 : Lunch.
14.00-15.15: Panel 2 : Workers Mobility.
Chair: Marcel VANDERLINDEN (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam).
14.00-14.15 : Arnaud CHARON (AGR – ULB, Brussels) : « Belgian forced labourers deported or not, in WWI».
14.15-14.30 : Ine VAN LINTHOUDT (Universiteit Ghent). « Flemish Fremdarbeiter in Nazi-Germany. Exploring the tensions between ideology, politics, propaganda and reality in the 'Third Reich'».
14. 30-14.45 : Helen SCHMITT-LOHMAN (Wien Universität). Indian Indentured Labour in East Africa: The Building of the Uganda Railway 1896 – 1901.
14.45-15.15 Discussion.
15.15-15.30 – Coffee Break.
15. 30-16. 30 – Keynote lecture : Alexander KEESE (Humboldt Universität, Berlin).
"Everything's possible, finally ...: revisiting the impact of the Second World War and the "colonial mind" in Equatorial Africa".
16. 30-17.00 : Concluding remarks : Nathalie TOUSIGNANT (Université Saint-Louis, Brussels), Nico WOUTERS (CEGESOMA, Brussels).
17.00-18.00 : Drink.