INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat – University of Copenhagen

INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat

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INNER_LEAGUE offers a social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat.

We investigate its inner life to understand how it shaped the professional lives of the ca. 4,000 employees and shaped the bureaucratic infrastructures of multilateralism it serviced.

Funding

Project period: 1. juli 2025-30. juni 2030

PI: Haakon A. Ikonomou

Events

27 Jan. 2026, 11:45-20:00

Multilateralism: A global view

The State of Multilateralism Roundtable.
25 Feb. 2026, 13:00-17:00

After Empire: National Questions and the making of International Order in Southeastern Europe

An author meets critics-event w. Georgios Giannakopoulos.

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News

Internship at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

2025.12.22

The ERC Research Project INNER_LEAGUE at the Saxo-Institute is looking for an MA-student in history at the Saxo-Institute to apply for internships at the UN Library & Archives Geneva in the fall semester 2026.

Research blog

"A Result of the World Cataclysm of War and Revolution"

Blog post by Sebastian Vang Jensen.

Clinging to the past? Let’s overcome the fear of the digital

Blog post by Jonas Tilsted.

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