Seminar details:
- Date: 24-27 October 2018
- Location: Ghent, Belgium
- Main theme: Remembering the First World War - 100th Anniversary Armistice Day
- Participation fee: €60 per person
- Number of international participants: 40
- Application period: 15-25 July 2018
No more war. Nie wieder krieg. Plus jamais la guerre. Nooit meer oorlog.
In Belgium, this pacifist expression became widely spread after the First World War ("The Great War") left many parts of our country literally in ruins exactly 100 years ago. It was the start of a long and strong tradition of national remembrance for this Great War, despite the fact that only 20-ish years later the next World War broke out. This tradition culminated into a huge 4-year long memorial project (2014-2018) which is coming to its end on 11 November 2018, exactly 100 years after Armistice Day. However, this is obviously not the ending point of the war remembrance and of the peace ideology. Like during "Lichtfront", one of our biggest memorial projects in 2014 (a chain of people standing along the historical front line at night and each holding a torch to lighten up the front line), where our then 12-year old Crown Princess Elisabeth of Belgium famously said, fluently in our 3 national languages: "It is now up to us, young people, to hold up our torches high and to form, like today, a light front."
The main goal of this ISHA Seminar is to see how other countries deal with the remembrance of the First World War, and more generally, how they organise their war memorials to shape a pacifist ideology. By extracting differences and similarities between these specific national outcomes, we will try to derive which (political) choices have been made in the past, why they have been made, what problems those choices imply and how we can improve those in the future to put ourselves one step closer to an 'ideal', international way of war remembrance. We will combine the workshop sessions in Ghent with a (half) day trip to the actual front line of World War 1 in and around the city of Ypres, where we will show you our rich cultural World War heritage. This way we can give you a very practical insight of our theme and of our workshops on the spot. For you, it's an ideal opportunity to visit the front line while the centennial memorial is still going on.
- Date: 24-27 October 2018
- Location: Ghent, Belgium
- Main theme: Remembering the First World War - 100th Anniversary Armistice Day
- Participation fee: €60 per person
- Number of international participants: 40
- Application period: 15-25 July 2018
No more war. Nie wieder krieg. Plus jamais la guerre. Nooit meer oorlog.
In Belgium, this pacifist expression became widely spread after the First World War ("The Great War") left many parts of our country literally in ruins exactly 100 years ago. It was the start of a long and strong tradition of national remembrance for this Great War, despite the fact that only 20-ish years later the next World War broke out. This tradition culminated into a huge 4-year long memorial project (2014-2018) which is coming to its end on 11 November 2018, exactly 100 years after Armistice Day. However, this is obviously not the ending point of the war remembrance and of the peace ideology. Like during "Lichtfront", one of our biggest memorial projects in 2014 (a chain of people standing along the historical front line at night and each holding a torch to lighten up the front line), where our then 12-year old Crown Princess Elisabeth of Belgium famously said, fluently in our 3 national languages: "It is now up to us, young people, to hold up our torches high and to form, like today, a light front."
The main goal of this ISHA Seminar is to see how other countries deal with the remembrance of the First World War, and more generally, how they organise their war memorials to shape a pacifist ideology. By extracting differences and similarities between these specific national outcomes, we will try to derive which (political) choices have been made in the past, why they have been made, what problems those choices imply and how we can improve those in the future to put ourselves one step closer to an 'ideal', international way of war remembrance. We will combine the workshop sessions in Ghent with a (half) day trip to the actual front line of World War 1 in and around the city of Ypres, where we will show you our rich cultural World War heritage. This way we can give you a very practical insight of our theme and of our workshops on the spot. For you, it's an ideal opportunity to visit the front line while the centennial memorial is still going on.