Day 1 (Thursday, 3 December 2015)

• 8h30-9h: Welcome

• 9h-9h15: Introduction: Xavier Rousseaux (UCLouvain - CHDJ) & Rudi Van Doorslaer (CegeSoma)

• 9h15-10h30: Keynote lecture: Clive Emsley (Open University), Crime and Criminalisation in Wartime, 1914-1945

• 10h30-11h: Coffee break

• 11h-12h30: Panel 1 The Insiders' Perspective: Professionals of Justice

Discussant: Liora Israël (EHESS)

Jan Julia Zurné (CegeSoma/UGent), Maintaining Order in Occupied Belgium? The Brussels’ Public Prosecutor’s Office and Political Violence 1940-1950

Jonas Campion (Lille3-Irhis/UCL), Policing Occupied Countries : Gendarmes and Populations Facing Security Needs (1940 – 1944, Hainaut/ Nord-Pas-de-Calais)

Bérengère Piret (FUSL), ‘Taming One of the Most Dramatic Uprisings of Congolese History’ Using Justice to Restore Colonial Sovereignty During World War II

• 12h30-13h45: Lunch

• 13h45-15h: Panel 2 The Outsiders' Perspective: Expectations of Justice. Discussant: Griet Vermeesch (VUB)

Mélanie Bost (CegeSoma/Royal Military Academy), 'Judges, lawyers, ‘Vultures’ and ‘Butchers’. Actors and Stakes of the Rental Crisis in the Occupied Capital (Brussels, 1914-1918)

Gertjan Leenders (UGent), Denunciation to the Enemy in Belgium During the First World War: The Use of Witnesses and the Problematisation of Denunciation in Post-war Judicial Investigations Against Denouncers

• 15h-15h20: Coffee break

• 15h20-16h35: Panel 3 Dynamics of Internment. Discussant: Benoit Majerus (University of Luxembourg) Florent Verfaille (CegeSoma/UGent), The Belgian ‘Traitors’ of the First World War Portrayed by the Penitentiary Anthropological Service

Dimitri Roden (Breendonk Memorial), The German Military Chaplaincy and Capital Punishment in Occupied Belgium (1940-1944): Otto Gramann’s Exceptional Reports on the Execution of Belgian Resistance Fighters and Hostages

Day 2 (Friday 4 December)

• 8h30-9h: Welcome • 9h-10h15: Panel 4 Justice & (At-)Risk Groups. Discussant: Dirk Luyten (CegeSoma)

Aurore François (UCLouvain), Juvenile Delinquency, War and the Food Crisis : a Judicial Response to Delinquent Subsistence Strategies (Belgium, 1914-1918)

Christoph Brüll (ULG) & Lawrence Van Haecke (Royal Military Academy), The Belgian Judicial Actors and the Establishment of the Repression and the Civic Purge in the East Cantons

• 10h15-10h30: Coffee break

• 10h45-12h00: Panel 5 Police, Justice and Forced Labor. Discussant: Gael Eismann (Université de Caen)

Julia Albert, Herbert Reinke & Michael Wildt (Humboldt Universität Berlin), Wartime ‘Dangerous Classes’ or the use of the Wartime Metropolis by Foreigners. Foreigners, the Police and Criminal Justice in Berlin during the Second World War

Pascaline le Polain (FUSL), Between Resistance and Adaptation. Legislating and Enforcing Agricultural Forced Labour in Belgian Congo (1940-1945)

• 12h00-13h: Round Table Doing Justice in Wartime in a Long-term Perspective. Moderator : Xavier Rousseaux (UCLouvain – CHDJ)

Jenneke Christiaens (VUB)

Dirk Heirbaut (UGent)

3-4 Décembre 2015

CegeSoma, Square de l'Aviation n°29

1070 Bruxelles

Inscription gratuite mais obligatoire avant le 30 novembre

Contact : leah.kazar@cegesoma.be