(Source: Wikipedia)
Via H-Law,
we have the following CFP for an international conference on the League of
Nations:
Call for
Papers
Lisbon, 19-20
September 2019
Intergovernmental
organizations – understood as multilateral institutions created by sovereign
states, with their own permanent structures and charged with the long-term
pursuit of common goals – are tools for promoting the peaceful resolution of
conflicts and facilitating cooperation. By establishing permanent dialogue
between governments and trying to promote cooperative relations between peoples
at a global level, intergovernmental organizations are a fundamental new
element of global politics in the contemporary era. The genealogy and nature of
intergovernmental organizations has therefore been the subject of highly
relevant political controversy as well as significant debate in academia.
Established in
January 1920, at the end of the First World War, the League of Nations was the
first permanent multilateral organization set up to maintain peace and
collective security, aiming at promoting a new stable and prosperous
international order. Although it was meant to be in principle a global
organization, European states de facto were the central core
of founding members. After a decade, it became increasingly clear that the
League’s performance in addressing major conflicts did not live up to the
expectations of guarantying the collective security of member states.
Resolutions and sanctions were ineffective against increasingly violent
conflicts. In the functional areas, regarding minority rights and in the
oversight of the role of imperial powers in mandate territories, the League of
Nations created an important precedent but also showed important limitations.
With the
suspension of the activities of the League of Nations with the beginning of the
Second World War and its subsequent replacement came the idea of a total
failure of the League of Nations. But current studies have pointed in new
directions in the analysis of the knowledge of the organization. This
rehabilitation of the importance of the critical study of the League of Nations
has led to new and different readings of its various facets. It is, nevertheless,
important to pursue these new approaches not only from an institutional
perspective, but also by a more multidimensional and comparative analysis that
does greater justice to the rich and important history of the organization. The
tools of International History, Global and Transnational History, History of
Ideas, Comparative History, Social History, Labour History, History of
Communications, History of Health, History of Migration and others allow us to
consider the presence and the role of the League of Nations in various scales
and spaces, as well as its relationship with a diversity of actors and themes.
The relevance of
the League of Nations is also justified by how topical and important many of
the issues with which it struggled still are. The growing globalization and
mobility of the contemporary era, voluntary or not, generates global problems
and norms with enormous national and local impact. It has been in and through
intergovernmental organizations that global regimes have been defined in a
variety of areas – human rights, drug trafficking, terrorism and refugees. This
brings us to the controversial but arguably indispensable role of multilateral
organizations in international governance, as standards-makers and managers of
the problems and challenges of contemporary societies which require a global
response.
To promote the
debate between those who study the League of Nations and connected topics we
will organize an interdisciplinary conference to be held in Lisbon on 19 and 20
September 2019.
The keynote
speakers are:
- Erez Manela
(Harvard University)
- Mark Mazower
(Columbia University) – to be confirmed
- Nicolas Werth
(CNRS)
- Patricia
Clavin (University of Oxford)
- Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth University)
- Philippe Rygiel (École Normale Supérieure - Lyon)
- William
Mulligan (University College Dublin)
Proposals for
20-minute presentations on issues related to the League of Nations will be
accepted, including but not limited to the following topics:
- The genealogy
of the concept of intergovernmental organizations;
- Concepts and
methodologies for the study of intergovernmental organizations;
- History of
intergovernmental organizations;
- The Paris
peace talks, the Peace Treaties and the creation of the League of Nations;
- Institutional
structure and dynamics of the League of Nations;
- The League of
Nations and the relationship with its member states;
- The League of
Nations and international civil service;
- The League of
Nations and international peace and security;
- The League of
Nations and the rights of minorities and refugees;
- The League of
Nations, empires and international mandates;
- The League of
Nations, social issues and the International Labour Organization (ILO);
- The League of
Nations and technical areas;
- The League of
Nations and non-state actors;
- The League of
Nations and other international organizations;
- The League of
Nations, international law and justice;
- The transition
from the League of Nations to the United Nations (UN).
Abstracts of
presentations (300 words) and biographical notes (250 words) should be sent in
English or French or Portuguese to:sdnconferencialisboa@gmail.com
Deadline for
submission of abstracts: 31 October 2018.
Date of
notification of acceptance: 15 December 2018.
N.B. Submissions
can be made in English, French or Portuguese. However, to facilitate debate the
organizers encourage participants to use English in their oral presentation.
A publication of
some of the papers presented at the conference is a future aim.
The registration
will have a fee of 25 EUR.
Organizing
Committee
Aurora Almada e
Santos (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Cristina Rodrigues (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Bruno Cardoso
Reis (ISCTE-IUL)
João Paulo Avelãs Nunes (CEIS20 – Universidade de Coimbra)
Pedro Aires
Oliveira (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Yvette Santos (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Scientific Committee
Álvaro Garrido (CEIS20 – Universidade de Coimbra)
Aurora Almada e Santos (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (ISCTE-IUL)
Cristina Rodrigues (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Erez Manela
(Harvard University)
Fernando Tavares
Pimenta (IPRI – NOVA FCSH)
Filipe Ribeiro
Meneses (Maynooth University)
Hipolito de la Torre Gómez (UNED)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (ISCTE-IUL)
Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro (CEIS20 – Universidade de Coimbra)
Mark Mazower
(Columbia University)
Nicolas Werth
(CNRS)
Patricia Clavin
(University of Oxford)
Patrick Finney
(Aberystwyth University)
Pedro Aires
Oliveira (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Philippe Rygiel (École Normale Supérieure - Lyon)
William Mulligan
(University College Dublin)
Yvette Santos
(IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Institutional
Sponsorship
Diplomatic
Institute / Portuguese Ministry for Foreign Affairs
(Source: H-Law)
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