SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
Weds 3 February – WELCOME session (1h30-3pm (GMT))
Weds 17 March – KEYNOTE Professor Todd Hall (Oxford) (1h30-3pm (GMT))
Weds 19 May – PANEL 1 / PANEL 2 (1h00-4h00pm (GMT))
Weds 9 June – PANEL 3 / PANEL 4 (1h00-4h00pm (GMT))
Weds 30 June – PANEL 5 / PANEL 6 (1h00-4h00pm (GMT))
Weds 7 July – CONCLUDING COMMENTS (1h30-3pm (GMT))
PANEL 1: (IN)GRATITUDE
Grace Allen (Chinese University of Hong Kong) French and Canadian Expressions of Gratitude and Ingratitude during Expo 67
Elisabeth Piller (University of Freiburg, Germany) International Aid and International Resentment – “Ingratitude” and Transatlantic Relations in the Era of the Great War, 1914 – 1924
Enrico Ciappi (University of Pavia, Italy) The European Community and the United States: an asymmetrical gratitude?
PANEL 2: GIFT
Katharina Gerund (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) The Gift of Democracy: American Occupation, Reeducation, and Gratitude in Postwar Germany
Diederik Oostdijk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)New Bells for America: the Aftermath of a Postwar Gift
Mathilde Roza (Radboud University, Netherlands) The Diplomacy of Gratitude and the Choctaw-Irish gift exchange
PANEL 3: HUMANITARIANISM
Bethany Keenan (Coe College, US) “A Touch of Sweetness and Sadness”: The Role of Gratitude in American Aid to French Orphans, 1915-1922
Victoria Phillips (London School of Economics, UK) “Goodwill is A Weapon”: The Politics of American Plenty in Early Cold War Europe
Carl Bouchard (University of Montreal, Canada) Gratitude towards US Humanitarian and Military Aid in Belgian and French Schools (1915- 1919)
Kenneth Bertrams (ULB) Competition of Benefactors: The Disputed Legacy of Herbert Hoover’s Humanitarian Drive in Belgium during World War I
PANEL 4: LIBERATION
Paula Schwartz (Middlebury College, US) The Gift that Keeps on Taking: The Liberation in French and American Memory of the Second World War
Brice Prince (ULB) Gratitude of war between Belgium and Canada: a comparative study of state and population gratitude (1918-1919)
Felicia Londré (University of Missouri-Kansas, US) Gratitude on Stage: What Could Go Wrong? Eugène Brieux’s Les Américains chez nous and Its Reception by French and American Theatre Audiences
PANEL 5: WRITING THANKS
Alan Noonan (University College Cork, Ireland) “Like the bursting of a thunderstorm”: Contact, context, and meaning in Irish-American migrant letters
Rev. Peter Bush (Independent / St. Andrew’s, Canada) The Presbyterian Church in Canada’s Loyal Address to the Monarch: An evolving ritual of Trans-Atlantic Gratitude, 1875-2020
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Gratitude and Cold Calculation. The Case of Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States.
PANEL 6: THE POLITICS OF GRATITUDE
Dario Fazzi (Radboud University, Netherlands) Falling Stars: The Rise and Fall of Italians’ Gratitude to the US, 1917-1920
Sarah Sporys (University of Freiburg, Germany) Gratitude in Memory: German-American Relations from the Post-Cold War Era to the War in Iraq
Marcin Fatalski (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Ronald Reagan – myth, commemoration and gratitude in Polish – US relations
