Conferencing the International
A Cultural and Historical Geography of the Origins of Internationalism, 1919-39听
Research by Professor Stephen Legg, Professor Mike Heffernan, Dr Jake Hodder, and Dr Benjamin J. Thorpe
Conferencing the International听was a major听five-year AHRC funded project (2015-2020). with the University of Nottingham partnering with the Society. The project was听led by Professor Stephen Legg, Professor Mike Heffernan, Dr Jake Hodder and Dr Benjamin J. Thorpe from the School of Geography, University of Nottingham.听
It examined liberal, imperial and radical forms of internationalism as manifested in their conferencing spaces between the wars.听Drawing from archives across three continents, the project reconstructed the local, national and听global geographies of three important groups of interwar conferences:
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The Round Table Conferences
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The Pan-African Congresses
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The International Studies conferences organised by the League of Nations' International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC)
The project culminated in听听from 17 December 2018 - 22 January 2019, on the Spaces of Internationalism, and a听, 18-19 December 2018. An edited collection,听, has now been published.
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