The International Scientific Committee
for the UNESCO History Project was established by the Director-General
of UNESCO and met for the first time on 30 June 2006. In his
welcoming
speech, the Director-General emphasized the important
role of the distinguished members of this independent Committee
in managing the History Project and inspiring a new set of
historical works on UNESCO.
Statutes
Members
Report of
the first meeting (30 June 2006)
Report of
the second meeting (23 February 2007)
Report
of the third meeting (18 January 2008)
The International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO History
Project has prepared the provisional programmes of three international
conferences relating to UNESCO’s history.
Towards the Transnational History of International
Organizations: Methodology / Epistemology. This conference
will pay special attention to UNESCO as a case-study, and
take a broader view of methodological issues relating to the
study of the history of international organizations. The conference
will be hosted by the Centre for History and Economics at
King's College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, and
take place on 6 and 7 April 2009.
UNESCO and Issues of Colonization and
Decolonization Among UNESCO’s founding Member States were
both colonial powers and former colonies. This Conference
invites students and scholars utilizing a range of methodological
approaches and intellectual frameworks to reflect on UNESCO’s
historical role, relevant orientations and actions in regard
to colonialism and the era of decolonization. The conference
will be hosted by the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar,
Senegal, and take place on 5 and 6 October 2009.
UNESCO and the Cold War. UNESCO was
an important arena for the Cold War, but it was also an actor
with an agenda of its own. The purpose of the conference is
to explore different historical perspectives concerning the
extent of the Cold War’s impact on UNESCO and vice versa.
The conference will be hosted by the Heidelberg Center for
American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany,
and take place on 4 and 5 March 2010.
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