18-20 SET | International Conference “A Century of Internationalisms”
The International Conference “A Century of Internationalisms: the promise and legacies of the League of Nations” will be held between September 18-20 at ISCTE-IUL and the National Library.
PROGRAMME
September 18, 2019
Venue: National Library Auditorium
11h00-13h00 / 14h00-16h00
Registration – ISCTE-IUL (Building II, First Floor)
14h30-15h00
Welcome Remarks – National Library Auditorium
15h00-17h15
Round Table: The League of Nations: History and Legacies – National Library Auditorium
Moderation: Pedro Aires Oliveira, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Patricia Clavin, University of Oxford
- Patrick Finney, Aberystwyth University
- Philippe Rygiel, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
- Rui Tavares, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
17h30-18h30
Panel: League of Nations Archival Projects – National Library Auditorium
Moderation: Aurora Almada e Santos, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Colin Wells, United Nations Library at Geneva
The League of Nations Goes Digital: New Opportunities for Research in the League of Nations Archives - Margarida Lages & Helena Pinto Janeiro, Archive and Library of the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal & Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
Mapping out the League of Nations in Portugal
18h30
Port wine tasting
September 19, 2019
Venue: ISCTE-IUL
8h30-13h00 / 14h00-18h30
Registration (Building II, First Floor)
9h00-9h40
Keynote Address – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Cristina Rodrigues, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Nicholas Werth, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent
L’Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques à Genève, 1934-1939
09h40-11h20
Session 1 – The League of Nations Institutional Dimensions – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Fernando Martins, University of Évora
- Katja Naumann, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe & Leipzig University
Empowering the League of Nations: Postimperial Transformations in Eastern Europe and Trans-national Agency in the League’s Secretariat - Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Aarhus University
An Institution in the Making. A Sociological Exploration of the League of Nations Secretariat 1919-1946 - Torsten Kahlert, Aarhus University & Humboldt University of Berlin
Inventors of International Bureaucracy. Prosopography of International Civil Servants of the League of Nations Secretariat
Session 2 – The League of Nations and Technical Cooperation – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: João Paulo Avelãs Nunes, Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra
- Paul Weinbaum, Duquesne University Pittsburgh
Epidemics, Politics and Public Health, Ludwik Rajchman MD, The League of Nations Health Organization and the Creation of a Transnational Health Organization - Quintino Lopes, NOVA University of Lisbon & University of Évora
Science and Diplomacy in the 1930s: The [Portuguese] National Education Board and the League of Nations - David Petruccelli, Dartmouth College
The League of Nations and the Making of the Illiberal International Order
Session 3 – League of Nations, Refugees and Minorities Question – Room B1.02 (Building II, First Floor)
Moderation: Yvette Santos, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- David J. Smith, University of Glasgow
Talking Past Each Other. Minority Rights and the Differing Statehood Conceptions of the European Nationalities Congress and the League’ - Marina Germane, University of Glasgow
‘The Two Great Minorities of 1918’: Germans and Jews at the Congress of European Nationalities (1925-1933) - Oskar Mulej, Austrian Academy of Sciences
The German Nationalist Subversion of the European Nationalities Congress, 1933-1938 - Timo Aava, Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Vienna
Mikhail Kurchinskii’s International Minority Activism in the European Nationalities Congress, 1925-1939
11h20-11h40
Coffee-break (Building II, First Floor)
11h40-13h00
Session 1 – Women and the League of Nations – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Helena Pinto Janeiro, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Dagmar Wernitznig, University of Ljubljana
‘In the Antechambers of Power’: Women and Women’s Roles in the League of Nations - Sara Ercolani, University of Bologna
The Fight against the Traffic of Women and Minors Before and Within the League of Nations: A Path to Legitimacy for the European Civil Society - Nova Robinson, Seattle University
The Committee of Experts on the Legal Status of Women and Measuring the Status of “All the World’s Women”
Session 2 – The League of Nations and International Security – Room B1.02 (Building II, First)
Moderation: Bruno Cardoso Reis, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
- Joseph A. Maiolo, King’s College London
The League of Nations, the Problem of Raw Materials and the Crisis of World Order in the 1930s - David Ekbladh, Tufts University
Plowshares into Swords: The League as an Instrument of War - Natali Stegmann, University of Regensburg
Social Rights and Conceptions of Peace in an East Central European Perceptive
13h00-14h30
Lunch break
14h30-15h10
Keynote Address – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: João Paulo Avelãs Nunes, Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra
- Philippe Rygiel, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Dreaming of a Forum? International Legal Conversations on the Society of Nations in the Pre-1914 World
15h10-16h30
Session 1 – The United States and League of Nations – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Mónica Dias, Portuguese Catholic University
- Geert Van Goethem, Institute of Social History & Ghent University
Sidelined: International Social Policy and the American Architects of a New World Order (1941-1943) - Ross A. Kennedy, Illinois State University
A Commitment to Judge: Woodrow Wilson’s Conception of Collective Security under the League of Nations
Session 2 – Regional Perspectives on the League of Nations – Room B1.02 (Building II, First Floor)
Moderation: Pedro Aires Oliveira, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Carolin Liebish-Gümüs, Kiel University
Turkish Nation Building through the Lens of the League of Nations - Jesús Manuel Bermejo Roldán, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Comparative Analysis of the Integration and Performance of the Two Small Iberian Powers in the League of Nations (1919-1939) - Andrei Mamolea, McGill University’s Faculty of Law
Escaping Washington’s Tutelage: Latin America at the League of Nations
16h30-16h50
Coffee-break (Building II, First Floor)
16h50-18h10
Session 1 – Cultural Approaches – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Cláudia Ninhos, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Carolyn Biltoft, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Switzerland: Decoding the Balance Sheet: Material Objects, Symbolic Capital and the Liquidation of the League of Nations - Sebastian M. Spitra, University of Vienna & University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor
Constructing International Community within the League of Nations: The Ambivalent Case of Cultural Heritage - Ilaria Scaglia, Aston University
Feeling the League of Nations: A Perspective from the History of Emotions
September 20, 2019
Venue: ISCTE-IUL
8h30-13h00 / 14h00-16h00
Registration (Building II, First Floor)
9h00-9h40
Keynote Address – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Patrick Finney, Aberystwyth University
- Patricia Clavin, University of Oxford
Britain, Security, and the League of Nations
9h40-11h20
Session 1 – The Mandate System and Empires – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Helena Pinto Janeiro, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Thomas Gidney, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
An Anomaly among Anomalies’: Colonial Member States at the League of Nations - Kate Burlingham, California State University
From Hearing to Heresy: Angola, the Ross Report, and the League of Nations’ Temporary Slavery Commission - Jelmer Vos, University of Glasgow
The League of Nations and the Discourse of ‘New Slaveries’ in Africa, 1900-2000 - Gavan Duffy, National University of Ireland-Galway
“The Obligation to Work [is] Recognised in all Civilised Nations”: The Permanent Mandates Commission and Labour Issues in the British Empire C Mandates1920-1926
Session 2 – Women and the League of Nations – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Inácia Rezola, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Rebecca Shriver, Missouri Southern State University
Europe’s Threat to the League: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Debate over European Integration and Protecting the League of Nations, 1923-1933 - Marie-Michèle Doucet, Royal Military College of Canada
The Women of the World Want to Disarm: The League of Nations and the Disarmament Questions in the early 1930s - Andrew M. Johnston, Carleton University
“A Little Child, Born of Dissipated Parents”: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Feminist Critique of the League of Nations, 1919-1924
Session 3 – The League of Nations Institutional Dimensions – Room B1.02 (Building II, First Floor)
Moderation: Rui Aballe Vieira, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Martin Bemmann, University of Freiburg
The League and the World. How and Why the League’s Economic Intelligence Service Shaped the Statistical Image of the World Economy - Hannah Tyler, University of Lausanne
Show Me the Money: The Financial Structure of the League of Nations Between 1920 and 1933
11h20-11h40
Coffee-break (Building II, First Floor)
11h40-12h40
Session 1 – The League of Nations and International Security – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Luís Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
- Thomas W. Bottelier & Nicholas Mulder, Erasmus University Rotterdam / King’s College London & Columbia University
Not Appeasement but Internationalism: A New Look at Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War - Rob Konkel, Princeton University
The League’s Raw Materials Problem: Metallic Minerals, Trading Blocs, and the Limits of Internationalism in the Age of Disequilibrium
Session 2 – Refugees and Humanitarianism – Room B1.02 (Building II, First Floor)
Moderation: Yvette Santos, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Tomás Irish, Swansea University
The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction: The League of Nations and Intellectual Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War - Hazuki Tate, Musashi University
Cooperation and Competition between the League of Nations and the Red Cross Movement in their First Humanitarian Activities in the Post-War World
12h40-14h00
Lunch break
14h00-14h40
Keynote Address – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Patricia Clavin, University of Oxford
- Patrick Finney, Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth and the League Experiment
14h40-16h00
Session 1 – The League of Nations and Anti-imperialism/Anti-imperialist Movements – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Aurora Almada e Santos, Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Michele L. Louro, Salem State University
The Search for a “Real” League of Nations: The League against Imperialism and Alternative Histories of Interwar Internationalism - Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus, Free University Berlin
Betraying Asia: Criticisms of the League of Nations in Colonial East Asia, 1919-1926 - Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott College
Competing Internationalisms and the Syrian Revolt of 1925
Session 2 – League of Nations and the “New Diplomacy”/Open or Public Diplomacy – Room B1.02 (Building II, First Floor)
Moderation: Daniel Marcos, Portuguese Institute of International Relations of the NOVA University of Lisbon
- Erik Koenen, Arne L. Gellrich & Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, University of Bremen
The League of Nations “Open Diplomacy”-Strategy for a New Information Order - Pelle Van Dijk, European University Institute
Influencing Indian Public Opinion: The League of Nations’ Bombay Office - Michael Auwers, University of Antwerp
“Ces Dangereux Moyens de Pacifier l’Europe”. On the Strained Relationship between Professional Diplomats and the League of Nations
16h00-16h20
Coffee-break (Building II, First Floor)
16h20-17h00
Keynote Address – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Bruno Cardoso Reis, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
- Mónica Dias, Portuguese Catholic University
On American Greatness, Again … and the Urgency of Wilsonian Internationalism Today
17h00-18h20
Session 1 – The League of Nations and Non-State Actors – Room C2.05 (Building II, Second Floor)
Moderation: Ana Mónica Fonseca, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
- Sarah Shields, University of North Carolina
The League of Nations, Non-State Actors, and the Challenges of Intervention - Anne-Isabelle Richard, Leiden University
The International Federation of League of Nations Societies - Jan Stöckmann, University of Oxford
The Architects of International Relations: Academia and Diplomacy at the League of Nations
Session 2 – The League of Nations and the Clash of Ideologies – Room B1.02 (Building II, First Floor)
Moderation: Nicholas Werth, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent
- João Arsénio Nunes, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
The Comintern and the League of Nations - Martin Beddeleem & Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Aarhus University
Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations: A Cradle for Neoliberalism?
18h20
Closing session – Auditorium B2.03 (Building II, Second Floor)
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