Thursday May 12 2022
09:00 WELCOME SESSION
Francesco Pisano and Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert: Welcome
Martin Grandjean: Introduction to the conference
09:45 SESSION 1 Intellectual Cooperation in the Diplomatic Field (chair: Ludovic Tournès)
Charlotte Faucher European cultural diplomacies and the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC)
Marilena Papadaki N. Politis (1872–1942), a “governments’ intellectual’: the promotion of the idea of intellectual cooperation as a basis for world peace
Pelle Van Dijk Mobilising international public opinion: Moral disarmament as the public diplomacy of the League of Nations
10:45 Coffee pause
11:15 SESSION 2 Foundations of Intellectual Cooperation (chair: Daniel Laqua)
Jonathan Voges In the engine room of intellectual cooperation. A prosographic approach to the civil servants of the Institut international de coopération intellectuelle in Paris
Ilaria Scaglia A League of Minds with a Heart: Intellectual Cooperation and Emotions in the Interwar Period and Beyond
Gabriel Galvez-Behar Intellectual Cooperation and the Institutionalization of Scientific Research
12:15 Lunch
13:30 SESSION 3 Central and Eastern Europe, Fertile Ground for Intellectual Cooperation (chair: Sandrine Kott)
Johannes Feichtinger Central Europe and The Making of Intellectual Cooperation
Anastassiya Schacht Scholar amidst borders: Soviet representative to the League’s committee on intellectual cooperation as a case study for an attempt of cross-ideological cooperation in the interwar Europe
Monika Šipelytė Gabrielle Radziwill: the story of Eastern European princess at the service of Intellectual Cooperation
14:30 Coffee pause
15:00 SESSION 4 Arts and Culture at the League of Nations (chair: Diana Roig Sanz)
Camila Gatica Mizala ‘Le film, éducateur universel”. The reception of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute in Chile
Annamaria Ducci The League of Nations and Cultural Heritage. For an intellectual history of a notion
Christiane Sibille « Les relations internationales au point de vue musical » – Music and Intellectual Cooperation
16:00 Pause
16:30 SESSION 5 Latin American intellectual cooperation
Leandro Lacquaniti La Comisión Argentina de Cooperación Intelectual. Itinerario de la diplomacia cultural del Estado argentino a lo largo de una década (1937–1947)
Nelva Mildred Hernandez Sosa and Alexandra Pita Gonzalez Mexico and the Permanent International Studies Conference. The Sense of the International, 1928–1939
17:10 End of the first day
Friday May 13 2022
09:00 OPENING SESSION
Martin Grandjean: Welcome
UNOG and UNESCO The archives of intellectual cooperation
09:45 SESSION 6 Asia and Intellectual Cooperation: a Long-Distance Relationship (chair: Harumi Goto-Shibata)
Arnab Dutta Towards the Invention of a Common Language of Science: The League of Nations’ Committee for Intellectual Cooperation and the Colonial Question in British India
Takashi Saikawa Nationalism and Internationalism in Intellectual Co-operation: Aikitsu Tanakadate and the Romanization of Japanese Language
Jennifer Chang Beyond Representation: The Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale and the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 1933–1939
10:45 Coffee pause
11:15 SESSION 7 The League of Nations and Educational Issues (chair: Corinne Pernet)
Emeline Brylinski and Rita Hofstetter Education and childhood, a coveted field. The International Bureau of Education, an intergovernmental body seized in its relational network
Kaiyi Li Teaching about the League of Nations: An attempt of cultivating international consensus during the interwar period
Xavier Riondet How to guide and justify the work of the Intellectual Cooperation on textbooks? About the constitution and the action of the Committee of Experts de 1931
12:15 Lunch
13:30 SESSION 8 Intellectual Cooperation Facing Political Challenges in Western Europe (chair: Sacha Zala)
Tomás Irish ‘The League Committee of Intellectual Cooperation […] has never attracted much sympathy in Great Britain’: Britain and Intellectual Co-operation in the Interwar Period
Benjamin Martin Fascist Cultural Internationalism? Intellectual Cooperation in Mussolini’s Italy, 1925–1937
Jan Stöckmann Academic Refugees and Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations
14:30 Coffee pause
15:00 SESSION 9 The Central Role of Women in Intellectual Cooperation (chair: Tomás Irish)
Joyce Goodman Laura Dreyfus-Barney (1897-1974), the International Council of Women and International Intellectual Cooperation at Paris, Geneva, and Rome
Diana Roig Sanz A Global and Gender Perspective to the Historiography of Intellectual Cooperation
Itzel Toledo Garcia Women in International Cooperation during the Interwar Period: the case of Mexican Palma Guillén
16:00 Pause
16:30 SESSION 10 Literary questions at the League of Nations (chair: Alexandra Pita Gonzalez)
Elisabet Carbo-Catalan Translation activities in the Organization of Intellectual Cooperation
Thomas Davies Three Approaches to Transnational Intellectual Cooperation: The Entente Committee of the Royal Society of Literature, International PEN, and the Co-ordinating Committee of the Major International Associations, 1916–1939
17:10 CLOSING SESSION: Organizers Conclusion
17:30 End of the conference