Willem Erauw

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CEGES/SOMA, Brussels
Biography and/or project

I studied music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and contemporary history at the University of Ghent. Currently I am an editorial secretary of the JBH Journal of Belgian History at the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CEGES/SOMA) in Brussels. I have published a musical biography of queen Elisabeth of Belgium (1995) and articles in the field of cultural history and more specifically on the theme of the relation between music and society. The past few years I have increasingly developed a research interest in the theory of history, in particular the work of Frank Ankersmit, and in the issues of commemoration and collective memory. I am preparing a PhD on the Beethoven myth which will be defended under the supervision of Frank Ankersmit at the Uiversity of Groningen.