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9.00 Start with coffee and tea
9u15: Welcome and opening (Vivian Liska, Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen)

9u30: Session I: (Colonial) state control, nationality and Jewish identity
Chair: Bart Wallet (University of Amsterdam)
Jessica Roitman (KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Creating Confusion in the Colonies: Negotiating Nationality across Imperial Boundaries
Tsila Rädecker (University of Groningen), Moral hygiene and Jewish religious practice in the nineteenth-century Netherlands.

10u30: Session II: Jewish women’s identity
Chair: Chia Longman (Ghent University)
Judith van der Wel (University of Groningen), Three generations Dutch women and their (religious) Jewish identities
Efrat Tzadik (KU Leuven), Jewish women in the Belgian working place – An anthropological view

11u30: Coffee break

11u45: Session III: Jewish Diamond workers and migration
Chair: Veerle Vanden Daelen (Ceges-Soma / University of Antwerp)
Youssef de Conink (University of Antwerp), Migration of Amsterdam Jewish diamond workers and traders to Antwerp 1865-1880
Huibert Schijf (University of Amsterdam) & Peter Tammes (independent researcher),
Trade union membership of Jewish diamond workers, 1898-1914: Integration, discipline, and migration Peter Tammes (Independent Researcher) & Karin Hofmeester (IISG / University of Antwerp), Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Amsterdam 1880-1914: immigrant aid, responses in the Jewish press and settlement patterns

13u15 – 14u15: Lunch
14u15: Session IV: Transnational migration: Antwerp as a Transit city in Jewish migration Chair: Evelien Gans (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies)
Bram Beelaert & Mandy Nauwelaerts (Red Star Line Museum), The Jewish emigrant experience: voices and stories from the Red Star Line museum
Lien Vloeberghs (Ghent University), Ezra, an Antwerp Jewish aid organization for Jewish transit migrants, 1918-1940

15u15: Session V: The persecution of Jews during the Second World War and its consequences
Chair: Laura Hobson Faure (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)

Antoine Burgard (Université Lyon II), For a comparative History of Holocaust orphans rescue projects: the work of the AIVG (Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre) in Belgium and of the OSE (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants) in France

Casper van der Veen (Utrecht University), Sally Dormits (1909 - 1942) and the "Nederlandse Volksmilitie" (NVM): A Jewish Communist Resistance Group in Rotterdam

16u15: Coffee break
16u30: Session VI: Jewish archives on the low countries
Chair: Karin Hofmeester (IISG / University of Antwerp)
Gertjan Desmet & Pascale Falek-Alhadeff (Belgian State Archives), Archival source guide on Judaism and the Jewish community in Belgium, 19th-20th century. Preliminary findings.
Veerle Vanden Daelen (Ceges-Soma / University of Antwerp), European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI): Connecting collections, collection-holding institutions and researchers

17u30-17u45: Closing remarks (Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen)