Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights

ISBN-13: 9783830938552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Pierre Bouchat;Elke Brems;Chantal Kesteloot

Recenzje

By fully embracing the inter-disciplinary potential of studying the First World War and its memory, this volume offers a welcome break from historians talking primarily to and writing primarily for other historians. [...] Not only do the chapters underscore the kinds of exciting work that can come out of cross-disciplinary research but they also help us to reconsider the importance of the historical study of the First World War. Above all, they show how inherently flexible history as a discipline can be. [...] Altogether, this collection is much more than a book on Belgium in, at and after the First World War, although it is a highly welcome addition to the growing body of work in English on the subject. It is well worth the attention of anyone who works on the history and memory of warfare, be it the 1914-1918 cataclysm or any modern conflict. - Maartje Abbenhuis, in: BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review.

O autorze

Bouchat, PierrePierre Bouchat is Doctor in psychology from Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and currently university lecturer and researcher at UCLouvain. He is interested in the social representations of history and focuses especially on the links between collective memories of the Great War and current pacifist attitudes among young Europeans. Brems, ElkeElke Brems is Professor of Literature and Translation at KU Leuven - Brussels. She is interested in cultural transfer, literary translation and 20th century Dutch literature. Her area of expertise is a. o. Reception Studies, focusing on how literary texts are received by readers and cultures. She is the head of the Research Unit of Translation Studies at the University of Leuven. Kesteloot, ChantalChantal Kesteloot is Doctor in contemporary history. She obtained her PhD in 2001 at ULB with a thesis on the Walloon movement and Brussels from 1912 to 1965. In 1992 she joined the permanent team of the Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and contemporary Society (CegeSoma). She is currently in charge of the Public History sector. Her main areas of interest are the legacies of the wars and Belgian history as well as issues of nationalism and national identities. Klein, OlivierOlivier Klein is Professor of Social Psychology at ULB. He is interested in social influences bearing upon memory, in the use of historical analogies in social judgment and in social representations of historical events. He has especially studied colonial memory in Belgium and the representations of World War I in Europe. He has been an active member of the European research network COST titled Social Representations of History in the European Union, in which he led a working group on cognitive approaches to appraisals of History. He also recently co-edited a special issue of Memory Studies titled Recent Advances in Historical Cognition. Luminet, OlivierOlivier Luminet is Professor of Psychology at UCLouvain and ULB and Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S-FNRS). One aspect of his research examines moderating impact of emotional expression/inhibition on emotional processing and health. Another aspect is related to the effects of emotions on individual and collective memories, including flashbulb memories. Recently, he focused his work on events related to Belgian history such as the splitting of the University of Louvain, intergenerational memories of WWII and honour and shame among Belgian soldiers during WWI. In 2012 he edited a special issue of Memory Studies titled The Interplay between Collective Memory and the Erosion of Nation States. The Paradigmatic Case of Belgium. Meylaerts, ReineReine Meylaerts is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven where she teaches courses on European Literature, Comparative Literature and Plurilingualism in literature. Her current research interests concern translation policy, intercultural mediation and transfer in multilingual cultures, past and present. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on these topics. She is also review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies. She was coordinator of 2011-2014: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN: TIME: Translation Research Training: An integrated and intersectoral model for Europe. She is former Secretary General (2004-2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) and Chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee of EST. Rimé, BernardBernard Rimé is Emeritus Professor in Psychology at UCLouvain. His main research field is on emotions, where he has published widely. One of his main publications is Le partage social des émotions (Presses universitaires de France, 2009). Rosoux, ValérieValérie Rosoux is Senior Research Fellow at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). She teaches International Negotiation, and Conflict Transformation at UCLouvain. In 2010-2011, she was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington DC). As a post-doctoral researcher, she worked at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 2002, the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Institut d'Études Politiques of Paris (2001) and the University Laval, Canada (2000). Valérie Rosoux has a master degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in International Relations. Her research interests focus on the uses of memory in international relations, especially in the Franco-German, Franco-Algerian, Rwandan and South African cases. Spijkerman, RoseRose Spijkerman is PhD candidate in History at Ghent University. In her research she focuses on the study of emotions in history, particularly the ones linked to honor and shame in the Belgian army during the First World War. Van Etterbeeck, MyrthelMyrthel Van Etterbeeck is PhD candidate in Literature at KU Leuven - Brussels. Her research deals with the memory of the Great War in the Belgian Dutch and French literature during the interwar period.