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

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.

Events

16 June 2026, 13:00-17:00

Women international civil servants and their contribution to international thought – 1920-1975

Public lecture by postdoc Myriam Piguet, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History.

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Research blog

Old Guard, New World: Paul Barandon, Germany and the Fate of the League of Nations

Blog post by Sandra Ricker.

Typewriters as career catalysts: the life of Kathleen (Kay) Midwinter

A blog post by Myriam Piguet.

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