- 8:30 - Registration of participants
(on presentation of an ID and the invitation)
- 9.30-12.30 - Ceremony of the 60 th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of UNESCO
Room I, with live broadcast to Room II
- Official Speeches
- Special Guests and artistic interlude
- Reflection:
- Claude Lévi-Strauss , Member of the French Academy
- Speakers:
- Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow , former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987): “UNESCO: The Ambitions of Development put to the Test”
- Federico Mayor , former Director-General of UNESCO (1987-1999): “UNESCO and the Chances for Peace after the Cold War”
Afternoon
- 5.00-18.00 - “Birth of an International Organization”
Round Tables 1,2
- Round Table 1 (Room XI): “From a Community of Minds to UNESCO” - Chair:
- Glenda Sluga, Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
- Speakers:
- Jean-Jacques Renoliet, Ph.D. in History, University of Paris I: “Forgotten UNESCO: The Intellectual Cooperation Organization, 1919-1946”
- Jo-Anne Pemberton , Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales: “Towards a Society of Minds: From the International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation to UNESCO”
- Richard Toye and John Toye, respectively Professor, University of Cambridge, and Professor, University of Oxford: “Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the Initial Leadership of UNESCO: A Comparative Perspective”
- Discussants:
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- Round Table 2 (Room X): “The Vision: Fostering Humanism and Peace”
- Chair:
- Speakers:
- Patricia Morales, Researcher, Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development, Tilburg University: “The Philosophy of UNESCO towards Intellectual and Moral Solidarity”
- Edgar Krebs and Harald Prins, respectively Curator, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and Professor of Anthropology, Kansas State University: “Toward a World without Evil: Alfred Métraux as UNESCO Anthropologist (1946-1961)”
- Samuel Mawete, Professor, Ecole normale supérieure, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville: “UNESCO and The Culture of Peace”
- Discussants:
- Irene Oh, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami
- Michel Fourcade , Lecturer in Contemporary History, University of Montpellier III
- Francisco Gracia Alonso , Director, Department of Prehistory, Antiquity and Archaeology, University of Barcelona
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- 18.30-19.30 - “Peace, Reconstruction and Reconciliation: Key Challenges for the United Nations” (Room X) – Keynote Speech
- Lakhdar Brahimi , Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
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