The project is publicizing the main conclusions as widely as possible in order to stimulate
debate on the importance of the UN in the 21st century. The
60th anniversary of the UN in October 2005 provided the impetus
to accelerate dissemination efforts as well as to stimulate
additional exploration of the UN's record by academics and graduate
students, by journalists and policy analysts, in both developed
and especially developing countries.
PAST EVENTS: 2005
Maputo, Mozambique 6-10 December
CODESRIA Triennial conference, 500 participants from all parts of
Africa
Plenary presentation on December 9th on the Power of UN Ideas with
book display
Richard
Jolly gave plenary presentation as well as joining in other
sessions during the week and making points emerging from the project.
New York, 1 December 2005
United Nations Bookshop presentation and book signing
of
Women, Development, and the UN. Speakers include
Devaki
Jain, development economist and activist, author of
Women,
Development, and the UN; Gloria Steinem, feminist author and
founder of
Ms. Magazine; and K.S. Jomo, Assistant Secretary-General
for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
The moderator will be Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for
Communications and Public Information.
Click
here to download flyer.
Paris, 16-18 November 2005
60
Years of UNESCO History
A symposium hosted by UNESCO on the occasion of
its 60th anniversary, in conjunction with the University of Paris
I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, the Centre d'Histoire de l'Institut d'Etudes
Politiques, the Centre for History and Economics at the University
of Cambridge, and the United Nations Intellectual History Project
at The CUNY Graduate Center. This symposium will bring together
more than sixty researchers from all over the world, including UNIHP
director and authors
Thomas G. Weiss,
John Toye, and
Richard
Toye, to reflect on the following themes:
- Birth of an international organization
- Ideals challenged by history
- Taking action: international cooperation in perspective
- What sort of history/histories of UNESCO?
For information please contact Jens Boel
at
j.boel@unesco.org.
Please
click here to see remarks
made by Thomas G. Weiss.
Providence, Rhode Island, 4 November 2005
Telling the Intellectual History of the United Nations-
UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
A panel presentation at the annual Oral History
Association conference by
UN Voices co-authors
Thomas
G. Weiss and
Tatiana Carayannis.
For more information, please go to
http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/org_am_prov05.html.
Pretoria, South Africa, 27-28 October 2005
A presentation entitled "Toward a Global Consensus
on Development and the UN" by
Louis
Emmerij at a conference on "The UN at 60: Toward New Reform
Agenda?" organized by the Institute for Global Dialogue, the University
of Pretoria, and the South African Office of the Friedrich Ebert
Stiftung. For more information, please contact Cynthia Sinclair at
cynthia@igd.org.za
London, 24-25 October 2005
Development & Decolonization as
History:
Learning from the Bilateral & Multilateral Past
A roundtable co-sponsored by the United Nations Intellectual History Project at The CUNY Graduate Center and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
School of Advanced Study at the University of London. This roundtable is intended to bring together a range of compatible voices who have been undertaking oral and
documentary histories of decolonization and multilateralism. The centerpieces are:
- the concluding British Documents on the End of Empire (BDEEP) and Overseas Service Pensioners' Association (OSPA) projects at the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies which have respectively advanced documentary & oral histories of mainly British decolonisation and multilateralism;
- the findings and conclusions of the first 8 publications and the completed oral histories of the UNIHP; and
- the UNDP history project.
It is hoped that the roundtable will also attract and advance other related initiatives, such as the histories of the Department for International Development (DfID)
and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). For information please contact the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at +44 (0) 20 7862 8844 or
http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/.
Antananarivo, Madagascar, 7th October 2005
Richard
Jolly gave a presentation to UN staff on the UN history project
and its findings.
New Delhi, 24 October 2005
A book launch and discussion of the UN Intellectual
history project book,
Women,
Development, and the UN: A Sixty Year Quest for Equality and Justice,
by
Devaki Jain, is
being held in the UN Conference Hall, New Delhi on the United Nations
Day, 24 October 2005. The event will be chaired by the Dr. Maxine
Olson, UN Resident Coordinator and UN Resident Representative in
India and the panel will include Dr. Margaret Alva, ex-Member of
Parliament (Congress Party), and Dr. Veena Mazumdar, Chairperson,
Centre for Women's Development Studies.
New York, 17-22 October 2005
A broadcast of
Giving Voice to the UN Experience, featuring
Thomas Weiss
and
Tatiana Carayannis of the United Nations Intellectual History Project, and co-authors of
UN Voices, will be aired this week, 17-23 October, in the Tri-State area.
For more information, please dowload the
flyer.
Bonn, 21-24 September 2005
A presentation on the United Nations Intellectual
History Project at the European Association of Development Research
and Training Institutes (EADI) 30th Anniversary Conference by
Louis
Emmerij. For more information, go to
http://eadi.org/gc2005/.
New York, 22 September 2005, 5:30-7pm
A presentation and book signing of
UN Voices:
The Struggle for Development and Social Justice and Power of UN
Ideas, by
Thomas G.
Weiss and
Tatiana Carayannis.
Hosted by the UNA-NY. For more information please contact
KKlineCo@aol.com.
New York, 8 September 2005. 1-3pm
United Nations Bookshop presentation and book signing
of
UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
by UNIHP director and authors
Thomas
G. Weiss and
Tatiana
Carayannis. For more information please contact the UN Bookshop
at 1-800-553-3210, 1-212-963-7680 or
bookshop@un.org.
Cape Town, South Africa, 26-30 June 2005
A presentation on the UN's role and TNC's in Apartheid
South Africa at the 2005 Annual meeting of the Eastern Academy of
Management by UNIHP author
Tagi Sagafi-nejad.
New York, 2 June 2005
Workshop on Documenting UN History: Comparing
Methods, Findings, and Lessons
A
workshop
convened by the United Nations Intellectual History Project, in
collaboration with the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the UN
University (UNU), the Academic Council on UN Studies (ACUNS), and
the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. This
workshop
brought together UNIHP researchers, UN agency historians, UN librarians
and archivists, and scholars and research networks to discuss challenges
on UN history from around the world with the aim to share ideas
and findings, methods and compatible technologies, and develop areas
of cooperation.
New York, June 1, 2005
The Power of People and Ideas
This book launch and discussion of the United Nations
Intellectual History Project was part of a year-long celebration
marking the 60th Anniversary of the UN and the Centenary of Dag
Hammarskjöld. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered
opening
remarks. The
program
included a conversation on the “State of the Struggle for Development
and Social Justice,” based on the oral history interviews in
UN
Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice,
the latest project publication, and featuring Margaret Anstee, Noeleen
Heyzer, Gert Rosenthal, and James Traub, moderated by Thomas G.
Weiss. The program concluded with a reception and book signing.
Geneva, January 24,2005
From Development
to International Economic Governance
The Intellectual Contribution of the United Nations
A one-day seminar and book launch organized by
the United Nations Intellectual History Project in collaboration
with the Réseau Universitaire International de Genève.
The
program included presentations and discussions on the UNIHP
books,
Unity
and Diversity,
UN
Contributions to Development, and
The
UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance, and Development.
A related
exhibit,
“UN Ideas in the Service of Development,” was on display
at the United Nations Office at Geneva Library, to coincide with
the seminar.
Click
here to download the the electronic version of the book
based on the Conference and the UNOG Library exhibition.
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