Morning
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- 9.15-10.00 - "Ideas to Change the World: The First 60 Years" (Room IV) – Keynote speech
- 10.30-13.30 - “Ideals Challenged by History”
Round Tables 3,4,5
- Round Table 3 (Room XI): “The Race Question”
- Chair:
- Elikia M’Bokolo , Director of African History and Civilization Studies, EHESS, Paris
- Speakers:
- Marcos Chor Maio, Senior Researcher, Political Sciences, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro : “UNESCO’s Anti-Racist Agenda”
- Yvan Gastaut, Lecturer in Contemporary History, University of Nice: “UNESCO, Races and Racism, Continuity and Transformation (1945-2005)”
- Staffan Müller-Wille, Senior Research Fellow for Philosophy of Biology, Exeter University: “Race and Ethnicity: Human Diversity and the UNESCO Statement of Race (1950-1951)”
- Discussants:
- Claudio Sergio Pogliano, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Pisa
- Jean Gayon, Professor, Institute of the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Technology, University of Paris I
- Kathleen Tobin, Associate Professor, Latin American Studies, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- Round Table 4 (Room IX): “Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Dialogues”
- Chair:
- Germán Carrera Damas , President of the Scientific Committee for the General History of Latin America, Caracas
- Speakers:
- Cemil Aydin , Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte: “Before UNESCO’s Cultural Mission: The Debates over Civilization(s) and the Legitimacy Crisis of the World Order (1882-1945)”
- Laura Wong, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University: “UNESCO’s 1957-1967 ‘Major Project on the Importance of Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values’”
- Paul Weindling, Professor, History, Oxford Brookes University: “The UNESCO German Programme and John Thompson (1946-1954): A Biographical Approach to a History of Reconstruction”
- Discussants:
- Noboru Noguchi, Director-General of the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan
- Cédric Viale, Associate Professor, Catholic Institute of la Roche sur Yon
- Isenbike Togan, Professor, Inner Asian History, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- Round Table 5 (Room X): “In the Turmoil of International Politics: Cold War and Decolonization”
- Chair:
- Akira Iriye, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Harvard University
- Reflection:
- Ibrahima Thioub , Professor, Department of History, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar: “UNESCO and Development in Africa”
- Speakers:
- Ilya Gaiduk, Senior Researcher at the Institute of World History at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: “The Soviet Union and UNESCO During the Cold War”
- Hervé Ondo, Doctoral Candidate, University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III: “The Politics of UNESCO in Gabon from 1960 to 1970”
- Chloë Maurel, Doctoral Candidate, University of Paris I: “UNESCO Faced with Tension in International Politics (1946-1974)”
- Discussants:
- Alexis De Greiff Acevedo, Professor, Vice-Rector at the National University of Columbia, Santa Fe de Bogotá
- Anne Dulphy, Researcher at the Center for History at Sciences-Po, Paris
- Jahnavi Phalkey, Doctoral Candidate, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
Afternoon
- 15.00-18.00 – “Taking Action: International Cooperation in Perspective” Round Tables 6,7,8,9
- Round Table 6 (Room IV): “Discovering the Heritage of Humanity”
- Chair:
- Christina Cameron, Canada Research Chair on the Conservation of Built Heritage, University of Montreal
- Speakers:
- Metchild Rössler, Programme Specialist, World Heritage Centre, UNESCO: “World Heritage and Globalization: A Historical Perspective”
- Selma Al-Radi, Archaeologist and Associate Researcher, New York University: “Museums and Heritage Preservation in Post-Conflict Countries: A Critical Reflection”
- Valdimar Hafstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Folklore, University of Iceland: “The Making of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Tradition and Authenticity, Community and Humanity”
- Discussants:
- Sudhir Chopra, Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Research Institute in International Law, University of Cambridge
- Zilan Wang, Research Assistant in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- Sarah Titchen, PhD in Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- Round Table 7 (Room XI): “Social Responsibility of the Sciences”
- Chair:
- Amel Aouij Mrad, Professor of Public Law, University of Law and Political Science, Tunis
- Speakers:
- Patrick Petitjean, Researcher in the History of Science, CNRS, Paris: “Science and Society Relations as a Key Issue in UNESCO’s History”
- Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor, Department of History, California State University: “The Politics of International Cooperation in Science”
- Venni Krishna, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: “Scientific Research in Developing Countries and UNESCO”
- Discussants:
- Stephen Bocking, Environmental Historian, Trent University, Ontario
- Heloisa Bertol Domingues, Researcher, Department of History of Science, MAST, Rio de Janeiro
- Dhruv Raina, Professor, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- Round Table 8 (Room IX): “The Challenge of Education for All”
- Chair:
- Reflection:
- Phillip Jones, Associate Professor and Director of the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney: “Education for All as a Universal Idea”
- Speakers:
- Dina Karam, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, University Saint Joseph, Beirut: “From Elitism to Education for All”
- Marcel Kabanda, Associate Researcher, Centre for African Research, University of Paris I: “The Contribution of UNESCO in the Installation of Education Systems in Young African Nations - The Case of Rwanda”
- Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Professor of History, Fordham University, New York: “Educational Television in El Salvador: UNESCO and Modernization Theory in Action”
- Discussants:
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
- Round Table 9 (Room X): " Personal Accounts by Former Staff Members”
- Chair:
- Witold Zyss , President of the FAFICS, former President of the AFUS
- Speakers:
- Discussion
- Summary and Conclusions
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