Thursday, 10.03.2016

14:00–14:30 Welcome and Introduction
14:30–16:30 Panel 1: Imagining International Organizations in the Long 19th Century
Robert M. Spaulding (UNC Wilmington): The Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR) and the European Media, 1815-1848
Richard R. John (Columbia University): The Iconography of the Universal Postal Union in the Anglo-American World
Stephen Wertheim (Princeton University/University of Cambridge): Reading the International Mind: World Opinion in Early Twentieth Century International Thought
Commentator: Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute Geneva)

17:00-18:30 Keynote
Glenda Sluga (University of Oxford/University of Sydney): Hollywood, the UN, and the Long History of Communicating Internationalism

Friday, 11.03.2016

09:00–11:00 Panel 2: Interwar Expansion
Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia): Communicable Disease: How the League of Nations Used Information to Prevent Epidemics
Laure Piguet (University of Geneva): The International Labour Organization's Communication: Press Releases as a Case Study (1919-1932)
Arthur Asseraf (University of Oxford): Where the Cable Ends: News of International Institutions in French Algeria, 1919-1940
Commentator: Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva)

11:30-13:30 Panel 3: The UN Moment in the 1940s
Frank Beyersdorf (Humboldt University of Berlin/University of Mannheim): The 'United Nations Ideal' in War and Peace: Strategies of International Information Policy in the 1940s
Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College): Auntie UNRRA to the Rescue
Steffen Rimner (Columbia University): A Media Storm and International Justice: From Japan's Drug Conspiracy to U.N. Drug Control
Commentator: Federico Romero (EUI Florence)

14:30–16:30 Panel 4: Journalists as International Actors
Martin Herzer (EUI Florence): Journalists for 'Europe'. Europeanist Journalism and the European Economic Community in Postwar Western European Integration
Ettore Costa (La Sapienza – University of Rome): The Socialist International and the Global Public Sphere: Missed Opportunity or Impossible Dream? (1947-49)
Erik Koenen (University of Bremen): The League of Nations: An International Organisation in Transnational Entanglement of Journalism, Media and Public Communication during the Inter-War Period (1919-1939)
Commentator: Jürgen Wilke (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)

17:00-18:30 Keynote
Iris Schröder (University of Erfurt): Pictures and the Media Politics of Pity: The Ethiopian Famine, the Civil war and International Organizations' Aid in the 1980s

Saturday, 12.03.2016

09:00–10:20 Panel 5: Alternative Orders
Jonas Brendebach (EUI Florence): Towards a New Global Order? UNESCO, Development and "National Communication Policies" in the 1970s
Vanessa Freije (University of Washington/Dartmouth College): Imperialism in the Public Sphere: Organizing the New World Information and Communication Order from Mexico City
Commentator: Corinna Unger (EUI Florence)

10:45–12:15 Panel 6: Campaigning for the Good
Claudia Prinz (Humboldt University of Berlin): Women and the Media: The "Third World Mother" in International Health Campaigns
Monika Baár (Leiden University): Vulnerable Groups in the Centre of Global Attention: Communicating the UN's "International Years" in the Media
Commentator: Annette Vowinckel (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)

12.15–13.30 Panel 7: Commodifying International Connections
Tehila Sasson (University of London): The Global Jukebox: Humanitarianism, Capitalism and the Global Media
Gabriele Clemens (University of Hamburg): Advertising Europe: Promoting European Integration through Film
Commentator: Annette Vowinckel (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)