Convegno Internazionale

Prisoners of war in the twentieth century – Actors, concepts and changes

DAY 1 – MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH 2014

9:30-11:00 First World War, imprisonment experiences – Portugal Chair: António Paulo Duarte

Fátima Mariano, (IHC-FCSH-UNL): Dos gritos do cativeiro ao silêncio do poder politico – A resposta da República aos prisioneiros portugueses da 1.ª Guerra Mundial

Olga Maria Oliveira, Sofia Nabais de Oliveira Freitas e Menezes e José Miguel Moreira Freire, (Academia Militar): Prisioneiros de guerra entre inimigos não declarados. O caso de Naulila: 1914-1915

José Luís Assis, (CEHFCi-UE e IHC-FCSH-UNL): O Corpo Expedicionário Português na Grande Guerra: a dura experiência das tropas portuguesas nos campos de prisioneiros na Alemanha

Sérgio Rezendes, (IHC e Universidade dos Açores): A Grande Guerra nos Açores e a concentração de prisioneiros alemães na ilha Terceira

11:15-13:30 First World War, imprisonment experiences – Portugal II | Chair: Luís Alves de Fraga

Carlos Alves Lopes, (IHC-FCSH-UNL): A experiência do cativeiro na Europa (1917-1918)

Joaquim Rodrigues, (IHC-FCSH-UNL): Contributo para o estudo dos prisioneiros algarvios na Alemanha na I Grande Guerra

Sérgio Rezendes, (IHC e Universidade dos Açores): O depósito de concentrados alemães em Angra do Heroísmo, Açores

Margarida Portela (IHC-FCSH-UNL): “O meu avô foi prisioneiro dos alemães na Grande Guerra”. A memoria dos familiares dos prisioneiros portugueses na Primeira Guerra Mundial

15:00-16:00 Second World War: the Italian experience | Chair: Rui Vieira

Isabella Insolvibile, (Universitá degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”): The forgotten prisoners: Italian POWs in Great Britain during WWII

Eugenia Corbino, (University of Florence): Behind-outside the barbed wire. Allied prisoners of war in Italy: from the internment to the evasion

Mario de Prospo, (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”): From enemies to almost allies? The Italian prisoners of war in the United States of America during the Second World War

16:30-17:30 Second World War: the German experience | Chair: Ana Paula Pires

Marisa Fernandes, (ISCSP-UL): Entre o Poder dos EUA e da URSS: o significado de ser prisioneiro alemão na II Guerra Mundial

Maria Teresa Giusti, (University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti): Prisoners of Hitler and Stalin

Jean-Michel Turcotte, (Université Laval): The Nazi treatment of the Soviet prisoners of war during WWII

Olga Baranova, (Gonzaga University – Florence): Quoi faire des soldats d’Hitler ? Les relations canado-britanniques face à la detention des prisonniers de guerre allemands au Canada, 1939-1945

Roderick Bailey, (Oxford University): The handling and interrogation of captured agents of the Special Operations Executive – 1940-45

DAY 2 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH 2014

9:30-10:30 Second World War: African and Asian experiences | Chair: Jakob Zollmann

Idrissou Alioum, (Université de Yaoundé I): Les prisonniers de guerre européenes au Cameroun (1939-1945). Statuts itéraires et experiences

Donato Somma, (University of the Witwatersrand): Italian POWs in South Africa. Memory, History and Narrative

Elena Bellina, (University of Rochester): “The POWiere Song”: Italian prisoners stating captivity in East African Camps (1940-1946)

Jeannick Vangansbeke, (Ghent University): The Congolese Force Publique and its Italian prisoners of war in Ethiopia, 1941

Monica Kim, (University at Albany): Examining the prisoner of war, decolonization and the cold war in the interrogation rooms of the Korean War

11:00-12:30 POW camps, memory and violence | Chair: Jakob Zollmann

Padraic Kenney, (Indiana University): The prison has become a political battlefield: how POW camps transform practices of political imprisonment

Maria Zozaya, (CIDEHUS – Universidade de Évora): Denyed memory spaces. Collective memoirs not shared in the past. Looking back from the XXth century experience to the elite prisoners of the Peninsular War

Cristina Clímaco, (Universidade de Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis): Vichy e os prisioneiros de Guerra portugueses no campo do Vernet durante a 2.ª Guerra Mundial

Anabela Silveira, (IHC-FCSH-UNL): O percurso politico do angolano António Jacinto: da formação do Partido Comunista Angolano a prisioneiro no Campo de Trabalho de Chão Bom

Bernabé Sarabia and Demétrio Castro, (Universidad de Navarra): Spanish war prisoners in Russia, 1941-1954

Cláudio Forjaz, (Exército brasileiro): Prisioneiros de guerra – um factor que pode vencer a guerra e a paz

Hazuki Tate, (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales): The long process of repatriating POWs after the First World War and the International Humanitarian Actions

Alan Malpass, (Sheffield Hallam University): Save Europe now and the campaign to repatriate German prisoners of war in Britain c. 1945-48: Anglo-German relations, British values and “slave trading”

David Alegre Lorenz e Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira, (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): Trauma, Absence and everyday life in Francoist Spain during the fifties: arrival and reintegration of the Spanish Prisoners of war from the Soviet Union

Sherzod Muminov, (University of Cambridge): Prisoners of War and Peace: the Siberian internment of Japanese former soldiers within the context of Soviet Camps, 1945-1956