INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE
thursday 25 august | friday 26 august 2011
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, rue de Lausanne 132, 1202 Geneva
Towards a
New History
of the League
of Nations
http://graduateinstitute.ch
Carnegie Corporation of new york
Fondation Pierre du Bois
pour l'histoire du temps présent
Towards a New History of the League of Nations
Thursday 25 August
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration
Tabled papers
Charlie Laderman, University of Cambridge
ª The Hopeful Processes of Civilization: Woodrow Wilson
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening remarks
| 9:15-10:45 | Session I
The Problem of “Security”
Chair: Matthias Schulz, Université de Genève
Presented Papers
Martin Ceadel, University of Oxford
ª The Origins and Covenant of the League of Nations:
and an American Mandate for Armenia
Yannick Wehrli, Université de Genève
ª The League of Nations’ Correspondents in Latin America:
An Attempt to Improve Interest
Natasha Wheatley, Columbia University
ª On the Meaning of the Palestine Mandate: Legal
Tilman Dedering, University of South Africa
ª South Africa and the Italo-Ethiopian Conflict, 1935-1936
Thomas Fischer, Katholische Universität Eichstätt
ª The Security of the Weak:
Hermeneutics and the New International Order in Arab and
Jewish Petitions to the League of Nations
Linchpin of International Order, 1870-1940: A Genealogy of
the Concept
Discussion
A Corrective to Two Standard Simplifications
Latin America and the League of Nations
Erin Jenne, Central European University in Budapest
ª Nested Security and the League Minorities Regime:
Lessons from Conflict Management in Interwar Europe
for International Security
Tabled papers
Andrew Webster, Murdoch University
ª Disarmament as Success or Failure in the League’s Quest
Allehone Mulugeta Abebe, Universität Bern
ª Ethiopia and the League of Nations: Some Lessons on
Security and Rights
Karl Erik Haug, NTNU Trondheim
ª Norway, the League of Nations and the Disarmament
Question
Fabián Herrera-Leon, Colegio de México
ª Mexico and the Spanish Question in the League of Nations
Marta Stachurska-Kounta, University of Oslo
ª Collective Insecurity – Norway’s Attitude Towards the
League of Nations’ Collective Security System
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break
| 11:00-12:00 | Session I, continued
Discussion
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch
| 1:30-3:45 | Session II
Redrawing empires, nations, and regions:
the League and the global order
Chair: Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
Stephen Wertheim, Columbia University
ª The Rise and Fall of Public Opinion as the Conceptual
| 3:45-4:00 | Coffee break
| 4:00-6:15 | Session III
Humanitarian and educational
initiatives
Chair: Madeleine Herren, Universität Heidelberg
Presented Papers
Isabella Löhr, Universität Heidelberg
ª The League of Nations and Academic Refugees from
Germany in the 1930s
Davide Rodogno, Institut de hautes études internationales
et du développement
Commissariat for Refugees’ “Constructive Work” in Western
Thrace (November 1922 to February 1924)
of the Middle East: Between Communal Survival and
National Rights
ª From Relief to Rehabilitation: The League of Nations High
Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis
ª The League of Nations and the post-Genocide Armenians
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University
ª Between Knowing and Denying: The League and Europe’s
Empires
Tabled papers
Emily Baughan, University of Bristol
ª I Hope That One Day We Might Build a True League of
Nations; The Russian Famine, Russian Refugees and the
British Save the Children Fund, 1920–1935
Presented Papers
David Ekbladh, Tufts University
ª American Asylum: The United States and the Campaign to
Joyce Goodman, Winchester University
ª Educational Film at the League of Nations
Liat Kozma, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ª The Traffic in Women and Children Committee in the
Tomoko Akami, Australian National University
ª The League and Empires in the Asia-Pacific Region
Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham
ª An International Anomaly: The League of Nations, India
and Her Princely Geographies
Corinne Pernet, Universität St. Gallen
ª The Challenges of Internationalizing the League:
A Latin American Perspective
Sarah Shields, University of North Carolina
ª Minority Rights and Identity Politics:
The League of Nations Re-imagines the Middle East
Transplant the Technical League, 1939–1940
Middle East and North Africa
Mark Toufayan, University of Ottawa
ª The Paradox of Armenian Nationalism: Imperialism,
Sovereignty, Rights, and the March of Interwar
Humanitarianism
Towards a New History of the League of Nations
Friday 26 August
| 9:00-10:30 | Session IV
Experts, Officials, Lobbies, Publics:
The world of Geneva and the
construction of global norms
Chair: Patricia Clavin, University of Oxford
Presented Papers
Iris Borowy, Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS
ª International Health Work: The Beginnings
Jane Cowan, University of Sussex
ª A Feeling of Pursuing an Ideal: International Civil Servants
at the League of Nations Reflect on Their Work
Johan Schot, Technical University Eindhoven
ª Experts in Interwar International Machinery:
Agriculture, Steel, and Transport
Ludovic Tournès, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
ª Philanthropic Foundations in Geneva: Americanizing,
| 10:45-11:50 | Session IV, continued
Discussion
| 11.50-12.00 | “Hommage”
to Bernhardine Pejovic
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch
| 1:30-4:00 | Session V
Constructions of rights and identities
Chair: Corinne A. Pernet, Universität St. Gallen
Presented Papers
Ellen Dubois, UC Los Angeles
ª Women’s Rights at the League
Dominique Marshall, Carleton University
ª How the Examination of Childhood at the League of Nations
Transformed the Politics of Childhood?
Martin Bemmann, Universität Freiburg
ª The Timber Problem. The League of Nations and the
internationales et du développement
European Timber Market in the 1930s
Deskaheh’s Journey
Europeanizing or Universalizing the League
Tabled papers
Yann Decorzant, Université de Genève
Alexandra Vincenti, Université de Genève
ª Answers to Economic and Financial Crises Inside the
League of Nations (1920s–1930s): The Economic and
Financial Organisation (EFO) and the Delegation on
Economic Booms and Depression
Klaas Dykmann, Roskilde Universitet
ª The Origins of the International Civil Service:
A Look at the Secretariat of the League of Nations as an
International Bureaucracy
Michael Fakhri, University of Oregon
ª The 1937 International Sugar Agreement: Neo-Colonial Cuba
Barbara Metzger, Cambridge
ª Human Rights at the League of Nations
Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, Institut de hautes études
ª Contested Sovereignties at the League of Nations:
Tabled papers
organisations internationales à l’époque de la Société des
Nations (SDN)
Transnational Associations and Their Interdependences
with the League of Nations System
Joëlle Droux, Université de Genève
ª La protection de l’enfance: terrain de concurrences entre
Stefan Dyroff, Universität Bern
ª Minority Protection in Theory and Practice: The Efforts of
Doreen Lustig, New York University
ª Abolition of Slavery in the League of Nations: The Case of
Firestone in Liberia
and Economic Aspects of the League of Nations
Indira Sinha, Maghad University
ª The League of Nations: The Founder and Promoter of
Community and the Grid for the United States of Europe
Benjamin White, University of Birmingham
ª The Role of the League in Shaping Understandings and
Vincent Lagendijk, University of Leiden
ª To Consolidate Peace? The International Electro-Technical
Kayo Yasuda, University of Tokyo
ª From the League of Nations Health Organisation to the
World Health Organisation (WTO): The Origin of a New
Approach Toward Human Health
Susan Zimmermann, Central European University Budapest
ª Liaison et division and the Making of Global Labour
Standards Transnational Politics Over Labour Protection,
Group Specific Labour Protection and Legal Equality in the
Interwar Period
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break
Human Rights
Regimes About Right
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee break
| 4:30-5:00 | Christiane Sibille, Universität Heidelberg,
LONSEA
| 5:00-6:00 | Roundtable
The future of the history of the League
| 6:30-8:00 | Farewell reception