(Source: IHC)
The Universidade Nova de Lisboa
is organizing a conference on the League of Nations later this month. The
provision programme can be found here
This international conference
aims to contribute to renew the interest and improve the knowledge of the
League of Nations (LoN) and its impact in this last century marked by strong
waves of internationalism and globalization, but also of crisis and nationalist
reactions.
A multilateral institution such
as the LoN is the ideal object for a truly global and connected history that
goes beyond national historiographical traditions. That is what we intend to do
with this conference, through presentations on these themes by 65 speakers
affiliated with 60 institutions from 18 different countries.
The death toll of millions in
World War I (1914-1918) led to an effort at the 1919 Paris peace conference to
design a new international order with new norms and institutions. The creation
in 1920 of the first permanent multilateral organization in the form of the League
of Nations, the direct predecessor of the UN, was the most ambitious and
controversial result of this effort. Although the LoN eventually failed to
achieve its main goal of preventing a World War II, it did imprint, and does
help to better understand the multiple dimensions of global life in the two
decades of its existence. Many of these issues, which will be dealt with in the
different panels of this conference, continued to be of great relevance up to
today: from refugees to gender issues, from empires to their complex legacies,
from territorial conflicts to terrorism, from workers’ rights to global
financial system.
All info on the conference can be
found here
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