Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2025

Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations and its Histories

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Can the act of gathering a range of intellectuals around a table build better international understanding? Various prominent cultural and scienti!c !gures were confronted with this question when they came together on the League of Nations’ premises by the shore of Lake Geneva on 1 August 1922. Having assembled as members of the League’s newly established International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC), they formed an illustrious cast.1 Taken at the inaugural session, the picture on the cover of this book depicts the renowned French philosopher and ICIC chair, Henri Bergson. He is flanked by his vice-chair, the Oxford philologist Gilbert Murray and by the Polish medievalist Oskar Halecki, who worked for the League Secretariat and served as ICIC secretary.2 Yet it is not only the humanities that are represented: !gures closer to the window include the two-time Nobel Prize laureate Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the director of Rio de Janeiro’s Faculty of Medicine Aloysio de Castro, the Norwegian biologist Kristine Bonnevie and the former Belgian Minister of Science and Arts, Jules Destrée. At the other table are, among others, the Italian law professor and former Minister of Education Francesco Ruffini, the Madrid engineer and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo and two US scholars, the astrophysicist George Ellery Hale and his Caltech colleague, future Nobel Prize winner in physics Robert A. Millikan. Another ICIC member and physicist, namely Albert Einstein, does not feature, having cited a trip to Japan in excuse of his absence.

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Martin Grandjean, Daniel Laqua. Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations and its Histories. Martin Grandjean; Daniel Laqua. Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations: Shaping Cultural and Political Relations, United Nations, pp.1-16, 2025, United Nations Historical Series, 9789211072808. ⟨10.18356/9789211072808c003⟩. ⟨halshs-05410796⟩
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