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Media, Truth and Power at the League of Nations with Carolyn Biltoft

In this episode, Professor Carolyn Biltoft considers how you do global intellectual history and the need for analysis, as she talks about her book, A Violent Peace: Media, Truth and Power at the League of Nations (2021, University of Chicago Press).
Looking through the League of Nations, a longed-for project of international peace and cooperation, Biltoft is interested in examining what is this thing called mass media. In her critique of the information system, she looks at how it transforms our relation to power and interacts with our fears, anxieties, and our longing for certainty.
We talk about language, money and the press and uncover stories from the time of the League of Nations about Esperanto, typewriters, time-capsules, pneumatic tubes, money, counterfeiting, branding and advertising. We also talk about the tragedy of the suicide of Stefan Lux during the Assembly on 3 July 1936 to bring attention to the horrors occurring in Nazi Germany.
Carolyn Biltoft encourages us to hold open what we can never know, to be curious and to keep asking.
 
Resources:
Biltoft, C. N. (2021). A Violent Peace: Media, Truth and Power at the League of Nations. University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo80675830.html 
Biltoft, C. N. (2020). The anatomy of credulity and incredulity: A hermeneutics of misinformation, Misinformation Review. Harvard Kennedy School. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-anatomy-of-credulity-and-incredulity-or-a-hermeneutics-of-misinformation/
More about professor Biltoft: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/faculty/carolyn-biltoft 
Transcript: here 
Content: 
Speakers: Amy Smith and Carolyn Biltoft 
Host: Amy Smith
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso and Amy Smith
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva   

L‘héritage de Gustave Revilliod, des capsules temporelles aux Nations Unies avec Anne-Claire Schumacher

Pour l’épisode 59 de The Next Page, nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Anne-Claire Schumacher pour parler de Gustave Revilliod, du Musée Ariana et de leur lien avec les Nations Unies.
Conservatrice en chef au Musée Ariana, le musée suisse de la céramique et du verre, Anne-Claire Schumacher nous propose un regard nouveau sur l’héritage de Gustave Revilliod et son influence sur la Genève internationale. Elle nous dévoile également le contenu des mystérieuses capsules temporelles cachées par Gustave Revilliod et dont deux sont retrouvées en 1933 et 1936, respectivement, par des ouvriers de la Société des Nations. Enfin, elle nous rappelle l’importance de la culture et de l’Histoire pour améliorer le présent et favoriser une plus grande ouverture au monde.
Ressources :
Musée Ariana : http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/ariana/
Gustave Revilliod : https://bit.ly/3xYnnhx
Parc Ariana : https://www.ungeneva.org/fr/about/palais-des-nations/ariana-park
 
Contenu :
Intervenant: Anne-Claire Schumacher
Animatrice: Kelly Le Normand
Réalisation et montage: Kelly Le Normand, Natalie Alexander & Katrine Lyngso
Enregistré et produit à la Bibliothèque des Nations Unies à Genève

Cooperative Security amid multilateral doubt with Thomas Greminger

This episode of the #NextPagePod addresses the paradoxical reality that while we face a growing number of systemic security challenges that can only be solved collaboratively, such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, there is also an increasing amount of unilateral policies and political will globally. Our Director Francesco Pisano welcomes Thomas Greminger to the studio to talk about what cooperative security means, and where it can be beneficially applied. As a security expert, the current Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and former Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), he argues that collaboration is the best-proven way to fight our current security challenges and prepare against future security risks. 
Resources: 
More about Geneva Centre for Security Policy: https://www.gcsp.ch/
More about Ambassador Thomas Greminger: 
https://www.gcsp.ch/our-experts/ambassador-thomas-greminger 
Follow Greminger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thgreminger 
Transcript: Here
Content: 
Speakers: Ambassador Thomas Greminger & Francesco Pisano
Host: Natalie Alexander
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva   

Women in Tech: why it matters with Doreen Bogdan-Martin

This episode of the #NextPagePod brings you a timely conversation between the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, Doreen Bogdan-Martin and our Director Francesco Pisano about women in tech.
As the first woman in ITU’s history to hold a top elected management position, Doreen Bogdan-Martin speaks about her experience as a female leader in the male-dominated tech sector, why the industry can be discouraging for women, why the industry perpetuates gender bias, and tech ethics.
Doreen Bogdan-Martin asserts that putting more emphasis on people-centered technology is key to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and helping people live better lives. She also enlightens us on how the Bureau makes substantial efforts to encourage young people’s participation in the sector, not only as beneficiaries but as creators and changemakers.
Resources: 
Follow Doreen Bogdan-Martin on Twitter at @DoreenBogdan
Or the BDT Director's Twitter​​ here ​@ITUBDTDirector
Find Doreen Bogdan-Martin on Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/doreentbogdan/ 
Find more info about Bogdan-Martin here: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/bdt-director/Pages/Biography.aspx
More about ITU: www.ITU.int  
The EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age: https://www.equalsintech.org/ 
The International Gender Champions (IGC): https://genderchampions.com/
Women@theTable : https://www.womenatthetable.net/ 
School connectivity effort (GIGA): https://gigaconnect.org/ 
“Building Smart Villages: A Blueprint”: https://www.itu.int/en/myitu/News/2020/06/12/13/32/Niger-launches-Smart-Village-project 
Generation Connect Initiative: https://www.itu.int/generationconnect 
Transcript: here 
Content: 
Speakers: Doreen Bogdan-Martin & Francesco Pisano
Host: Katrine Lyngso
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva  

Repenser les études internationales et du développement avec Marie-Laure Salles

Pour l’épisode 56, nous sommes très heureux d’accueillir Marie-Laure Salles, qui nous parle des interactions complexes entre le monde  dès l’économie et la société et de la nécessité de former les jeunes autrement, si nous voulons « changer la culture du monde » et faire face aux enjeux du futur. 
Marie-Laure Salles est une sociologue et universitaire renommée qui est, depuis septembre 2020, la directrice de l’Institut des Hautes Études et du Développement (l’IHEID) à Genève. 
Dans cet épisode, Marie-Laure Salles partage sa vision sur la manière dont les étudiants doivent être préparé au monde de demain d’une manière radicalement différente de celle qui prévaut aujourd’hui.
L’épisode permet également de comprendre comment un plan d’action commun entre l’Organisation des Nations Unis à Genève et l’IHEID, qui partagent un lien historique, va permettre de concrétiser en partie de cette vision. Marie-Laure Salles insiste en particulier sur la nécessité de mettre en place des mécanismes qui permettront aux jeunes générations d’affirmer leurs idées auprès de l’ONU et de se faire entendre au sein de l’Organisation.
Ressources
Plus d'infos sur Marie-Laure Salles:  https://g.co/kgs/5KWXtG
Retrouvez Marie-Laure Salles sur Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marielauredjelic/
Retrouvez Marie-Laure Salles sur Twitter :  https://twitter.com/mlevasalles
Consultez les recherches de Marie-Laure Salles : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g1JxoogAAAAJ
Transcription ici 
Contenu :
Intervenant: Marie-Laure Salles
Animatrice: Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert
Réalisation et montage: Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Natalie Alexander & Katrine Lyngso
Francesco Pisano pour l’introduction
Enregistré et produit à la Bibliothèque des Nations Unies à Genève

Neutrality and vulnerable states with Ambassador Nasir Andisha of Afghanistan

What is neutrality and why it is beneficial for some states? How do geopolitical tensions influence Afghanistan's potential for permanent neutrality?
In episode 55 of the #NextPagePod, our director Francesco Pisano spoke to Dr Nasir A. Andisha, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the UN in Geneva, about Afghanistan's periods of neutrality which have coincided with periods of stability and peace.
Dr Andisha is also the author of Neutrality and Vulnerable States, which analyses the concept and practice of neutrality from an academic and historical perspective. In this conversation, the ambassador also gave us his perspective of Afghanistan's future in light of the US's withdrawal of all its troops and how this can affect its prospects of regional neutrality. 
Resources: 
Follow Dr. Andisha on Twitter https://twitter.com/AndishaNasir 
Neutrality and Vulnerable States: https://bit.ly/36n6NfW 
More about Dr. Andisha: https://www.geneva.mfa.af/en/the-embassy/ambassador-s-biography.html 
Transcript: here 
Content: 
Speakers: Dr. Nasir A. Andisha & Francesco Pisano
Host: Katrine Lyngso
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva  

L’histoire du multilatéralisme et des organisations internationales à Genève avec Olga Hidalgo-Weber

Pour cet épisode, nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Olga Hidalgo-Weber pour parler de l’ouvrage publié sous sa direction et celle de Bernard Lescaze intitulé «100 ans de multilatéralisme à Genève. De la SdN à l’ONU », paru en 2020 aux éditions Suzanne Hurter.
Olga Hidalgo-Weber, en tant qu’historienne et chargée de cours à l’Université de Genève, nous communique sa passion pour l’histoire et partage avec nous son érudition et sa vision sur le multilatéralisme. Elle nous explique, en particulier, quelles sont les nouvelles approches développées dans le domaine de la recherche historique sur les organisations internationales. Elle nous illustre comment cet ouvrage collectif porte un regard nouveau sur la Société des Nations et le multilatéralisme en général. Elle s’exprime également sur la résilience du système multilatéral et sur certains acteurs emblématiques du multilatéralisme. Enfin, elle nous offre un court exposé sur l'institutionnalisation du multilatéralisme en prenant l’exemple du secrétariat international.
Cet épisode permet de mieux comprendre comment l'histoire du multilatéralisme peut se confondre avec l'histoire des organisations internationales.
 
Ressources
Plus d'infos sur Hidalgo-Weber:  https://www.unige.ch/lettres/istge/corps-enseignant/hco/hidalgo-weber-olga/ 
Retrouvez Olga sur Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-hidalgo-weber/?originalSubdomain=ch 
La Grande-Bretagne et l’Organisation internationale du travail:  https://bit.ly/3vRk7mN
Livre « 100 ans de multilatéralisme à Genève de la SdN à l’ONU », éditions Hurter : https://www.editions-hurter.ch/produit/100-ans-de-multilateralisme-a-geneve-de-la-sdn-a-lonu/
Livre « 100 ans de multilatéralisme à Genève de la SdN à l’ONU », UN Global Search: https://bit.ly/2SizDut  
Evénement « Genève, ville internationale. De la Société des Nations à l'ONU, 100 ans de multilatéralisme (1920-2020) » : https://mediaserver.unige.ch/play/142340
Contenu
Intervenant: Olga Hidalgo-Weber
Animatrice: Hermine Diebolt 
Réalisation et montage: Hermine Diebolt, Natalie Alexander & Katrine Lyngso
Enregistré et produit à la Bibliothèque des Nations Unies à Genève

Harnessing economics for humanitarian action with Gilles Carbonnier

In this episode, Gilles Carbonnier joined the #NextPagePod for a conversation about applying economic tools and methods to improve humanitarian responses to armed conflicts and disasters.  
Carbonnier is a specialist in the domain of humanitarian response with expertise on several levels. Carbonnier is a Professor of Development Economics at the Graduate Institute whose research focuses mainly on the economics of humanitarian crises and the Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Carbonnier also has vast experience as a practitioner in the field of humanitarian missions, in countries including Iraq and Egypt. In this episode, the economist explains how these levels of humanitarian work corporate and especially how economics can contribute to a better understanding of the side effects and contributions of humanitarians.
Carbonnier also explained economics can bring valuable contributions to solving armed conflicts in interdisciplinary dialogue with phycologists, anthropologists, historians, and political scientists.  
 
Resources: 
Follow Carbonnier on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcarbonniericrc 
Read more about Carbonnier: https://www.icrc.org/en/person/gilles-carbonnier 
Humanitarian Economics: War, Disaster, and the Global Aid Market: https://bit.ly/3xbYsqG 
Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians: https://bit.ly/3vc75Qw 
Reason, emotion, compassion: can altruism survive professionalisation in the humanitarian sector: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25439560/ 
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith: https://www.adamsmith.org/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments 
Households in Conflict Network: https://hicn.org/ 
Cash Learning Partnership: https://www.calpnetwork.org/ 
Centre for Economic Policy Research: https://cepr.org/ 
Transcript: Here 
Content: 
Speakers: Gilles Carbonnier & Francesco Pisano
Host: Katrine Lyngso
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva  

Diversity in youth voice with Alicia Joho #KnowledgeRising

Why does multilateralism matter to young people? And how do we create inclusive and diverse participation of young people in multilateral efforts? In this episode, Natalie Alexander poses these questions and many more to Alicia Joho as a part of our #KnowledgeRising series.Alicia Joho is a student studying a Dual Master's degree in International Relations, Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at the London School of Economics and Sciences Po, a former Swiss youth delegate to the United Nations, Communications Director at STEAR and an intern at the UN's gender unit of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. 
Tune in to this conversation about diversity in youth voice, accounts of how young people are already shaping the future of multilateralism and getting beyond "token" representation. 
Resources: 
Follow Alicia Joho on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aliciajoho 
Find Alicia Joho on Linkdin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciajoho/?originalSubdomain=ch 
Youth Delegate Program: www.youthrep.ch
Find the Youth Delegate Program Guide: here
STEAR: https://www.stearthinktank.com/
Transcript: Here 
Content: 
Speakers: Natalie Alexander & Alicia Joho
Host: Natalie Alexander
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva  
 

Invisible history and the Institution of International Order with Prof. Alanna O’Malley

The historian Professor Alanna O’Malley from Leiden University, joined us at The Next Page to tell us more about her work as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice and to explore some of the themes in the cross-disciplinary volume she co-edited on The Institution of International Order, tracing the period from the 1920s to the 1970s and spanning the transition from the League of Nations to the United Nations. She discusses the history of internationalism and the dynamic, complex forces at play around these two organisations as global platforms. Professor O’Malley also talks of her current research on the invisible history of the UN and the Global South.
Resources: 
Professor O'Malley's bio: https://bit.ly/2QdzN58 Tracing the Invisible History of the Global South and the United Nations: https://bit.ly/2RR1X6m
The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations: https://bit.ly/3uF8MGR
TedTalk: "The United Nations: From Blue Helmets to Blue Skies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng2TltnSDmU 
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen: https://bit.ly/3hppl5F 
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations by Paul Kennedy: https://bit.ly/2QelKMK
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark M. Mazower: https://bit.ly/3borbjC 
Transcript here
Content: 
Speakers: Amy Smith & Professor Alanna O'Malley
Host: Amy Smith
Editor & Producer: Katrine Lyngso
Social media designs: Katrine Lyngso 
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva