Description
This panel brings together scholars interested in exploring ideas of the international operating within international institutions and private international organizations (or prototype INGOs) in the period 1915-1950. There is a recent and growing literature on plural and diverse forms of internationalism in the first half of the 20th century to which this panel will contribute. These papers examine the agency of a group of international actors not typically thought of as theorists of the international, but our panellists investigate concepts of the international within their organizational activity. The panel considers the concept in a variety of contexts looking at the United Nations, UNESCO, the World Trade Union Congress, the International Federation of University Women, and the Summer Schools of the League of Nations Union and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
