Valérie Rosoux (PI – spokesperson)
Valérie Rosoux is a research director at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). She teaches International Negotiation and Transitional Justice at UCLouvain. She is also a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. She holds a degree in philosophy and a PhD in political science.
Research Group
Associate PhD students and post-doctoral researchers working on the project under other sources of funding:
- PhD students: 4 [Louvain Cooperation; Max Planck Law Fellowship, FNRS-FRESH]
- Post-docs: 3 [FNRS]
Funded by the project:
- PhD students: 1
- Post-docs: 1
Olivier Luminet (Promotor)
Olivier Luminet is research director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), full professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and associate professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). He is the past president of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS).
One part of his research activity is dedicated to the interactions between emotion, personality and health. He has published widely on alexithymia since 1999, including two books and more than 40 papers in international journals. He co-edited a special issue of Cognition and Emotion in 2021, including a review paper, and he is leading author on one that will be published in Annual Review of Psychology (2025).
Another part of his research activity is dedicated to the links between emotion, identity and memories (both at the individual and at the collective levels). He has conducted several studies on cognitive and emotional determinants of flashbulb memories and their impact on collective memory. He was also involved in several interdisciplinary projects related to emotions and collective memory.
Since 2020, he is involved in research examining the impact of the covid pandemic on health behaviors and well-being, being PI of a project on “Taking stock to foster health and trust for an inclusive post-covid society” (THRIVE) (2024-2027).
Research group
Working on the project under other sources of funding:
- PhD students: 1 [FNRS-FRESH]
Funded by the project:
- PhD students: 1
- Post-docs: 1
Anne-Sophie Gijs (Promotor)
Anne-Sophie Gijs is Doctor of History and a Professor at UCLouvain. Her research focuses on colonial history and contemporary interactions between Europe and Africa since the end of the Cold War. Her preferred areas of analysis cover trade and development cooperation, foreign policy, and issues related to governance, peace, and security. She is also interested in the dynamics between history and memory, as well as questions related to identity.
Research group
Funded by the project:
- PhD students: 2
Laurence van Ypersele (Promotor)
Laurence van Ypersele is a full professor at UCLouvain. As a specialist in World War I and its memory, she is also a member of the steering committee of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Péronne, France). She has notably published: “Questions d’histoire contemporaine : Conflits, mémoires et identités.” Paris, PUF (Quadrige), 2006; and (with Emmanuel Debruyne and Chantal Kesteloot) Bruxelles, “La mémoire et la guerre: 1914-2014.” Waterloo, La Renaissance du Livre, 2014.
Aline Cordonnier (Post-doc)
Aline Cordonnier is a postdoctoral researcher in Cognitive Psychology at UCLouvain. Her current research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of family memories regarding the Resistance or Collaboration during World War II, or the Belgian colonization of Congo. She is primarily interested in issues related to the functions of memory and transmission processes.
Louise Ballière (PhD student)
Louise Ballière is a doctoral researcher in history at UCLouvain. Her doctoral research focuses on how Belgian linguistic communities commemorate collaboration with the German occupiers during World War II and the colonization of Congo. She is particularly interested in the collective memories of former collaborators and colonizers. Through critical discourse analysis of newspaper articles, school textbooks, and political speeches, she studies the representations of these individuals and their historical role.
Ségolène Cardon de Lichtbuer (PhD student)
Ségolène Cardon is a doctoral researcher in psychological sciences at UCLouvain. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of personal narratives in shaping attitudes, emotions and representations of a collective past, with a focus on Belgium’s collective memory of the colonization of Congo and the WWII collaboration. She conducts ecologically-valid, controlled studies using empirical data from the Belgian adult population to better understand how to mobilize personal testimonies to effectively engage the Belgian public, to foster more interest and introduce nuanced perspectives on difficult pasts. She pays particular attention to the aspects of age and linguistic community.
Wouter Reggers (PhD student)
Wouter Reggers is a doctoral researcher in history and political science at UGent and UCLouvain. His doctoral research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of memories in Belgian families involved in collaboration during World War II or the colonization of Congo. In doing so, he examines the interaction between these family memories and other collective memories of collaboration and colonization circulating within Belgian society.
Note: This PhD student was formerly funded by the ARC budget, but is now funded by a separate FNRS-FRESH grant.
NOTE: Each PhD student and post-doc funded by the project has multiple supervisors within the team. In total, the project comprises 2 PhD students and 1 post-doc funded by the ARC project.