The League of Nations and its work on social issues

The League of Nations and its work
on social issues
Symposium 31 October – 1 November 2013
United Nations Office at Geneva
Preliminary programme
31 October
09:00 – 09:40
Registration & Coffee
09:40 – 09:50
Welcoming remarks: Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert (Institutional Memory
Section, Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva)
09:50 – 10:15
Introduction: Magaly Rodríguez García (Vrije Universiteit Brussel &
Université Libre de Bruxelles)
10:15 – 12:00
Section I: The League’s initiatives around social issues
Panel 1: Interactions and power relations
Chair: Paul Knepper
10:15-10:30 Martyn Housden (Bradford University): Did the League of
Nations fail to protect Europe's national minorities adequately? A
discussion of the 1920s
10:30-10:45 Socrates Litsios (WHO, Baulmes): Medical Education in China
- a Contentious LNHO Report
10:45-11:00 Hussein Alkhazragi (University of Geneva): 'The best experts
of the world': Social issues in Middle-Eastern countries and the League of
Nations
11:00-11:15 Erik Koenen, Stephanie Seul and Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
(Universität Bremen): Mobilising public support for social issues: the
League of Nations and the transnationalisation of journalism
11:15-12:00: Discussion
12:00 – 13:15
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Section I: The League’s initiatives around social issues
Panel 2: Refugees
Chair: Elife Biçer-Deveci
13:30-13:45 Hazuki Tate (EHESS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris): Le rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre à l'initiative de
la SDN: ses premiers efforts humanitaires et les difficultés rencontrés
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(1920-1922)
13:45-14:00 Elizabeth White (University of the West of England): A
category 'easy to liquidate'? The League of Nations and Russian Refugee
Children in Europe in the 1920s
14:00-14:15 Edita Gzoyan (Genocide Museum Yerevan): Humanitarian
Action of the League of Nations to Rescue the Armenian Refugees
14:15-15:00 Discussion
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee-Break
15:30 – 17:15
Section I: The League’s initiatives around social issues
Panel 3: Trafficking, health and children
Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
15:30-15:45 Paul Knepper (Sheffield, UK): New York Critics: The United
States, the League of Nations, and the Traffic in Women
15:45-16:00 Edith Siegenthaler (Universität Bern): Mental Deficiency as a
Condition of Prostitution?
16:00-16:15 Tomoko Akami (Australian National University): Humanitarian
and imperial at the same time? Welfare liberalism of the League of Nations'
public health initiatives in Asia
16:15-16:30 Joelle Droux (Université de Genève): L'enfance en causes: le
Comité de Protection de l'Enfance de la SDN et la fabrication internationale
des politiques publiques de l'enfance (1925-1939)
16:30-17:10 Discussion
1 November
08 :45- 10:30
Section I: The League’s initiatives around social issues
Panel 4: Culture and women’s issues
Chair: Edith Siegenthaler
08:45-09:00 Marie Caillot (Graduate Institute Geneva): The League of
Nations and the development of the notion of "educational museums": The
International Museums Office (IMO)'s work (1927-1946)
09:00-09:15 Vittorio Mainetti (University of Geneva): La Société des
Nations et la création d'un système de coopération culturelle internationale
09:15-09:30 Jaci Eisenberg (Graduate Institute Geneva): The status of
women and the League of Nations: from the unrealized story of a women's
bureau for the League of Nations to the Commission to Study the Legal
Status of Women
09:30-09:45 Gyoung Sun Jang (Worcester, MA): Women and the Interwar
Era Global Governance: the League of Nations and the Institutional Turn of
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"social questions"
09:45-10:30 Discussion
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee-Break
11:00 – 12:30
Section II: The League’s impact within global-local relationships
Panel 5: Near and Middle East
Chair: Martyn Housden
11:00-11:15 Tutku Vardagli (Istanbul Aydin University): Turkish Experience
with the League of Nations: Bridging anti-Imperialist and International
Discourses over the Refugee Issue
11:15-11:30 Liat Kozma (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Regulation of
prostitution in the Middle East and North Africa: Between the Advisory
Committee on Traffic in Women and the Permanent Mandate Commission
11:30-11:45 Philippe Bourmaud (Université de Lyon): Conflicting values?
Syrian and Lebanese societies and the uprooting of haschisch in the
French mandates of the Levant (1925-1939)
11:45-12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
14:00 – 15:45
Section II: The League’s impact within global-local relationships
Panel 6: Colonialism and imperialism
Chair: Liat Kozma
14:00-14:15 Caio Simones Araujo (Graduate Institute Geneva): The
League of Nations, Colonialism and the Quest for Racial Equality
14:15-14:30 Andreas Vourtsis and Sylvia Haralambous (University of
Athens): The hidden agenda of biopolitics in interwar Greece: French and
American interests on public health issues and the League of Nations
Health Organization
14:30-14:45 Caroline Authaler (Universität Heidelberg): Negotiating social
progress: British administrators, German planters and African workers in
the British mandated territory of Cameroon, 1925-1941
14:45-15:30 Discussion
15:30-16:00
Coffee-Break
16:00 – 17:00
General conclusions & discussion: Sandrine Kott (Université de
Genève)
Moderation: Magaly Rodríguez García
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