International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation

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International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
1922–1946
StatusInternational organisation
CapitalGeneva
Historical eraInterwar period
• Creation
1922
• Dissolution
1946
Succeeded by
UNESCO
Nitobe Inazo, Marie Curie, Gonzague de Reynold, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, and Robert A. Millikan among its members.[5][6][7] The committee was the predecessor to UNESCO
, and all of its properties were transferred to that organisation in 1946.

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (Geneva)

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) was formally established in August 1922.[8] Having started out with 12 members, its membership later grew to 19 individuals, mostly from Western Europe.[7] The first session was held on August 1, 1922, under the chairmanship of Henri Bergson. During its lifetime, the committee attracted a variety of prominent members, for instance Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Kristine Bonnevie, Jules Destrée, Robert Andrews Millikan, Alfredo Rocco, Paul Painlevé, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Gonzague de Reynold, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Einstein resigned in 1923, protesting publicly the committee's inefficacy; he rejoined in 1924 to mitigate the use German chauvinists made of his resignation.[9] The body was successively chaired by:

The ICIC maintained a number of sub-committees (e.g. Museums, Arts and Letters, Intellectual Rights or Bibliography) which also worked with figures such as Béla Bartók, Thomas Mann, Salvador de Madariaga and Paul Valéry.

The ICIC worked closely with the International Educational Cinematographic Institute created in Rome in 1928 by the

Italian government under Mussolini.[10]

The last session took place in 1939, but the ICIC was only formally dissolved in 1946, like the League of Nations.

  • ICIC Plenary session (date unknown, between 1924 and 1927).
    ICIC Plenary session (date unknown, between 1924 and 1927).
  • Henri Bergson (ICIC president) to Inazo Nitobe (International Bureaux Section director), 1924.[11]
    Henri Bergson (ICIC president) to
    Inazo Nitobe (International Bureaux Section director), 1924.[11]
  • ICIC Plenary session 1939.
    ICIC Plenary session 1939.
  • The Palais Wilson (Geneva), seat of the LoN and the ICIC between 1922 and 1937.
    The Palais Wilson (Geneva), seat of the LoN and the ICIC between 1922 and 1937.

The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (Paris)

international organisation
, each of the IIIC's three successive directors was French:

From 1926 to 1930,

Alfred Zimmern
– the well-known British classicist and a pioneering figure in the discipline of international relations – served as the IIIC's deputy director.

As a result of the Second World War, the institute was closed from 1940 to 1944. It re-opened briefly from 1945 to 1946. When it closed for good in 1946, UNESCO inherited its archives and some parts of its mission.[12][13]

References

General

  • Northedge, Frederick (1953). International Intellectual Co-operation Within the League of Nations: Its Conceptual Basis and Lessons for the Present. London: University of London.
  • Renoliet, Jean-Jacques (1999). L'UNESCO oubliée, la Société des Nations et la coopération intellectuelle (1919-1946) [The Forgotten UNESCO, the League of Nations and Intellectual Cooperation (1919-1946)] (in French). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. .
  • Grandjean, Martin (2018). Les réseaux de la coopération intellectuelle. La Société des Nations comme actrice des échanges scientifiques et culturels dans l'entre-deux-guerres [The Networks of Intellectual Cooperation. The League of Nations as an Actor of the Scientific and Cultural Exchanges in the Inter-War Period]. Lausanne: Université de Lausanne. (English summary)
  • Centenary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Geneva: United Nations Library and Archives. 2022.

Specific

Notes

  1. . Geschichte und Informatik. 18/19: 109–128.
  2. ^ Laqua 2011.
  3. ^ a b Grandjean 2022.
  4. ^ Shine 2018.
  5. ^ Pernet 2014.
  6. ^ Grandjean 2018.
  7. ^ a b Grandjean 2020.
  8. ^ Grandjean 2017.
  9. ^ Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions (New York: Bonanza/Crown, 1954), p. 84.
  10. ^ "International Educational Cinematographic Institute" (PDF). biblio. 17 December 1929. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  11. ^ LoN archives 1924, United Nations Offices in Geneva. Picture from this collection.
  12. ^ "UNESCO Archives". Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  13. ^ Renoliet 1999.

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