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PEAK EVENT PROGRAM: "The End(s) of War" (Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 27-28 FEB 2026)

(image source: Museu Nacional)

The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History will hold its annual peak event in Barcelona, where Prof. Alfons Aragoneses (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) welcomes student delegations from CY Cergy Paris Université (Prof. Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan), Univerza v Ljubljani (Prof. Katja Škrubej) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Prof. Frederik Dhondt).

A draft program has now been made available:


Connected Learning Community – Legal History

Peak event: February 27-28 2026

The End(s) of War

Universitat Pompeu Fabra


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

9:00-09:30 Reception of participants

09:30-09:45 Welcome addresses

09:45-11:00 The Wars before 1914. Chair: Prof: Alfons Aragoneses.

Pacification during the Eighty Years War (1568-1648), Emma Wittens (VUB).

The Ljubljana Congress (1821) in the aftermath of Napoleonic wars: between the legacy and memory in select Slovenian late 19th and 20th century sources, Nives Košnjek (UL).

From Neutral Constraint to Sovereign Control: Belgium's Immigration Policy Transformation (1839-1940), Aichat Okueva (VUB).

The Legal Reclassification of Violence  (1885–1908), Christine Bwanassani (VUB).

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 

11:30-13:00 The inter-war period 1919-1939. Chair: Prof. Frederik Dhondt.

The role of telecommunication in establishing the new authorities of Slovenian National Government at the end of the First World War and the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Klara Babić (UL).

The establishing of Radio Ljubljana and the question of public (co-official) language(s) in the first Yugoslavia: Slovenian v. Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian?, Vito Grilc (UL). 

Private law and the Great War in Belgium (1914-1940), Galina Hermans (VUB).

The repression of Republicans during and after the Spanish Civil War, Lauren Ferrie, Annika Marie Cross, and Guillem Marcer (UPF).

After the Spanish Civil War: exile and concentration camps in Southern France, Manel Bautista, Anna Jurado, Aurora Peggion, Greta Pescosolido (UPF).

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch and visit of the Campus

 

14:30-15:30. The End of WWII: Between Justice for War Crimes and national reconstruction. Chair : (Chair : Prof. Katja Škrubej).

The short-lived Slovenian branch of the TANJUG Press Agency (1944-45) and the new »Federal Yugoslavia«, Luka Držić (UL).

When post-war justice confronts the horrors of crimes against humanity. A Fugitive in the Cathedral: Paul Touvier: Protections and Delayed Justice, Alessia Finamore (CY).

When post-war justice confronts the horrors of crimes against humanity Crime against humanity, Paul Touvier: Verdict and Memory, Emir Hodzic-Islamovic (CY).

Between Film Technology and Legal Framing: the case of Trials of War Criminals in Ljubljana (General Leon Rupnik and co-defendants) in shaping the early post war Yugoslav criminal law, Jožef Krnc (UL).


15:30-16:15 A new Europe: projects of unification and wars. Chair : Prof. Caroula Argyriadis Kervegan.

The Foundations of New Europe after WWII: the case of the Coal and Steel Community, Isabelle Hannam, Ellie Cullen, Matilde Gremmo and Eduardo Cordoba (UPF).

‘Our rights in a new constitution’: the intertwining role of women groups, political actors and the media in the reevaluation of constitutional reproductive rights in late 20th century Slovenia. Izabela Letonja (UL).

16:15-17:00: General, discussion, Conclusions and closing words

 

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28

 

11:00-13:00 Guided tour of the Archaeological site at El Born (The End of the War of the Spanish Succession)

 

15:00-17:00. Free visit of the exhibitions on War and Art at the National Museum of Art.



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