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SUMMARY:The League of Nations @ 100: Humanitarian Histories
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DESCRIPTION:A Centre for Modern and Contemporary History Roundtable, in partnership withĀ POLSIS, BRIHC, and The Centre for Modern History at City, University of London.\n


Dr Jeanne MorefieldĀ (UoB):Ā ā€œFamilies of Mankindā€:Ā The League of Nations, the Traffic in Women and Children, and the Birth of International Order.


Dr Jasmin NithammerĀ (UoB):Ā Poland, the League of Nations and the Fight against Traffic in Women and Children.


Speaker biographies and abstracts:Ā 
 Dr Jeanne Morefield is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University Ā鶹¾«Ń” and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. She is the author of ā€œEmpires Without Imperialism: Anglo American Decline and the Politic of Deflectionā€ (2014), ā€œCovenants Without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empireā€ (2005), and ā€œEmpire as Method: Edward Said and Political Theoryā€ (forthcoming). Her next project, ā€œTrafficking and the Politics of World Order,ā€ examines the historical and contemporary salience of human trafficking (as a humanitarian issue) for the politics of liberal world ordering.\n
Abstract
 This talk explores the League of Nationsā€™ long-standing interest in the traffic in women and children and the internally fraught politics of the Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children. I argue that a close look at the Committeeā€™s work provides a remarkably rich portrait of the ideological instability circulating within an institution striving to invent itself and differentiate its project from that of European imperialism.Ā \n

 Dr Jasmin Nithammer is a historian of modern Eastern Central European history. She received her PhD in 2016 from the Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany) for her thesis ā€œBorders of Socialism on Land and at Seaā€, comparing the Czechoslovakian land border and Polish sea border as borders of the so called ā€˜Iron Curtainā€™. She is currently a research fellow at the University Ā鶹¾«Ń” in the project ā€œThe Fight Against the Traffic in Women and Children in Interwar Polandā€ (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung).\n
Abstract
 This paper focuses on the instrumentalization of the fight against traffic in women and children in the Second Polish Republic in the context of the coordinated efforts of the League of Nations. It highlights how international and transnational activism affected the construction of state institutions in Poland.\n


 This event is the first of two roundtable workshops on the League of Nations @100; the second takes place at City, University of London on the theme: Self/Determination: Emotions, Law and theĀ League of Nations @ 100Ā onĀ Thursday 30Ā January 2020 inĀ D112,Ā Rhind Building atĀ 5.00pm-7.00pm\n
 Dr Ilaria Scaglia (Aston) will speak on ā€œFeeling Internationalism at the League of Nations and Beyondā€ & Dr Maja Spanu (Cambridge) will speak on ā€œThe Hierarchical Society: The Politics of Self Determination and the constitution of new states after 1919ā€.\n
 University Ā鶹¾«Ń” students and staff are welcome to attend the City workshop and some limited support is available from the Centre for Modern & Contemporary History to meet the cost of travel. Please contact Dr Simon Jackson (S.Jackson.1@bham.ac.uk) for more details.\n

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