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Seminars and Conferences
2008 Geneva, Switzerland, 24 -28 June 2008 Louis Emmerij will speak about "The Future of Ideas in the UN" at the EADI General Conference in Geneva from 24 to 28 June 2008. Tarrytown, New York, 12-17 May 2008 At the Rockefeller Pocantico conference site in Tarrytown, NY, the project's co-directors, Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss, will integrate comments on the penultimate manuscript from the Helsinki meeting in April, into the final manuscript tentatively entitled UN Ideas Changing History. Helsinki, Finland, 24-25 April 2008 This two-day workshop, organized by The United Nations Intellectual History Project in association with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, will focus on two topics. A small group of commentators will discuss the penultimate draft of the final project synthesis volume, UN Ideas Changing History, being written by the project’s co-directors (Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss). Public presentations for academics, public officials, NGOs, and the media will be will be organized around the conclusions of four of the projects books, with presentations by their authors: Devaki Jain, S. Neil MacFarlane, B. G. Ramcharan, and Sarah Zaidi. Attendance is by invitation only. Paris, France, 17-18 January 2008 Based on UNIHP experience to date, Thomas G. Weiss will make commentary on “UNESCO and the Cold War,” UNESCO and Issues of Colonization and Decolonization,” and “Towards the Transnational History of International Organizations." 2007 Paris, France, 25 October 2007 Richard Jolly presented "The UNIHP and the 3rd UN." New York, New York, 20 September 2007 Richard Jolly gave the closing keynote on the theme of "The Power of UN Ideas and the Challenges for the Human Development and Capability Association." New York, New York, 18 September 2007 Thomas G. Weiss presented “Oral Histories and Understanding Multilateralism: The Experience of the United Nations Intellectual History Project.” The Hague, The Netherlands, 5-7 July
2007 Louis Emmerij spoke about "Opportunities and Challenges facing the Development Community," with particular reference to the UN. London, England, 5 July 2007 Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws launched the Oxford Handbook on the United Nations. The event was opened with introductory remarks by Sir Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Lord Hannay of Chiswick, Chair, UNA-UK. Presentations were made by Adam Roberts, University of Oxford; Ambassador Nick Thorne, UK Mission to the UN (Geneva) and Ngaire Woods, University of Oxford. Please click here to see the event featured in the UNA-UK newletter, New World. The Hague, The Netherlands, 5 July
2007 Richard Jolly gave a panel presentation on "The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism in the Management of International Affairs." Geneva, Switzerland, 28 June 2007 Thomas G. Weiss participated in an interactive roundtable discussion featuring the publications of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Other speakers included Mr. Yves Berthelot, Senior Research Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center and Co-director of the UNIHP; Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, UNCTAD; Mr. Heiner Flassbeck, Director, Division of Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD; Mr. Khalil Hamdani, Director, Division of Investment, Technology and Related Financial, UNCTAD; Ms. Jo Butler, Chief Intergovernmental Affairs and Outreach Service, UNCTAD. Moderators were Co-Founders of the GDBC Mr. Jovan Kurbilija, and Mr. Amr Aljowaily, Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN in Geneva. Glasgow, Scotland, 26 June 2007 Richard Jolly gave the opening keynote, "Policies and Institutions for Growth and Development: Is there a Heterodox View?" for the Glasgow University Conference on Heterodox Thinking. New York, New York, 12 June 2007 Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws gave presentations on the Oxford Handbook on the United Nations during its official release at the UN Bookshop. They were joined by Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and Barbara Crossette, Oxford Handbook author and UN Bureau Chief of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001. Please click here to see the flyer.
New York, New York, 6 June 2007 Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws launched the Oxford Handbook on the United Nations. Please click here to see the event featured in the UNA-UK newletter, New World. Warsaw, Poland, 31 May-4 June 2007 Louis Emmerij presented results to date of the UN Intellectual History project. Kazakhstan, 11 April 2007 Richard Jolly presented an overview of the findings of the UNIHP at the new UNICEF office in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. In addition to the UNICEF staff attending, the presentation was videotaped, to be made available for other UN staff in the main offices of Almaty. Dr. Jolly also briefly discussed the project on the previous day, during a keynote presentation to wind up a two day meeting on budgeting for children, held in the Senate chamber of the Government of Kazakhstan, with participants from the Kazakhstan Parliament and from a number of other countries in transition. Paris, France, 15 March 2007 Thomas G. Weiss made a presentation on UN Voices and Oral history research techniques.
Chicago, Illinois, 1 March 2007 Thomas G. Weiss discussed UNIHP findings for a plenary roundtable reflecting ISA Chair Prof. Ann Tickner's theme of "Politics, Policy and Responsible Scholarship." Budapest, Hungary, 22-23 February
2007 Louis Emmerij spoke about The Move toward a Multipolar World: the Role of the UN at a conference on Epoch forming changes in the World Economy in the last stage of the 20th century and the main challenges of the new era, organized by the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the faculty of World Economy of the Budapest Corvinus University. New York, New York, 5 February 2007 This seminar, jointly organized by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations and the UN Intellectual History Project, will explore the value-added of the concept of human security and its particular relevance for the United Nations. While the term is often associated with abstract definitional debates, we propose to focus on the international impact that adopting a people-centered approach to security policy has already had as well as practical next steps that could taken to further advance this agenda. Presentations were made by S. Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford and co-author with Yuen Foong-Khong of Human Security and the UN: A Critical History); Andrew Mack (Director of the Human Security Centre of the University of British Columbia and principal author of The Human Security Report 2005); Richard Jolly (Honorary Professor University of Sussex and co-director of the UNIHP, who participated in a 2006 UNDP analysis of fourteen country programs that examined the importance of human security and human development); and Don Hubert (Director of the Human Security Policy Division at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade). Thomas G. Weiss moderated the discussion.
See events for 2006, 2005 and 2004.
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