L'Université de Liège et l'Allemagne durant l'entre-deux-guerres

The European scientific world was deeply affected by the Great War. Most links between academics were disrupted, and scholars gathered in two opposing groups. “Cultural demobilization” was a difficult process. Until the middle of the 1920s, institutions would impose a “boycott” on the adversary camp, and few dared to transgress or ignore this. Taking the example of the historians, the conference will evoke the controversies caused by the renewal of scientific relations in Germany, in France and in Belgium. The efforts for the rebuilding of a common intellectual horizon were again frustrated by the rise of the Nazis in 1933.