18-19 June 2015

KU Leuven, Campus Brussels

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Centre for Reception Studies of the KU Leuven organizes a conference on the transnational reception of the event in the 19th century. Recent scholarship has compellingly demonstrated that the Battle evoked incisive socio-political and cultural responses that deeply impacted 19th-century aesthetic theory and production, as well as ideas of nationhood, history, community and cultural memory. As the key event leading to the demise of Napoleonic France and the emergence of post-Napoleonic Europe as a new geopolitical and cultural space, the Battle has long remained caught in nationalist ideologies and historiography. This conference stands as an open invitation to reconsider the Battle and its broad cultural reception throughout the 19th century. 

For more information please visit the conference website www.waterloo19.be