Programme

Monday 3rd June

9:45-10:15

Registration and Coffee

10.15-10.30

Welcome: Tuomas Forsberg (Director, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies)

10.30-11.20

Moderator: Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland)

Keynote: Dalia Leinarte (UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Cambridge University and Kaunas University) From Suffragettes to Women’s Human Rights: Eastern European Feminism

11.30-13.00

Moderator: Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari (University of Helsinki) – History of Human Rights: the Versailles perspective

Matthias Koenig (University of Göttingen & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)  International law and the politics of religious difference from the 19th century to Versailles – a historical sociological perspective

13.00-14.00

Lunch (for speakers, moderators and registered participants)

14.00-15.30

Moderator: Carolina de Stefano (University of Eastern Finland)

Georgios Giannakopoulos (Durham University) – British international thought and minority questions in Eastern Europe: Lessons from Paris

Wiktor Marzec (Higher School of Economics) “One of the Oldest States in Europe Has Never Suppressed Any Nation”. Polish Parliamentary Debate on the Minority Treaty and the Foundations of Interwar Polish Politics

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-17.30

Moderator: Immi Tallgren (University of Helsinki)

Jane Cowan (University of Sussex/ University of Helsinki) – International oversight of rights and protections for minorities at the League of Nations: practices, contestations and alliances in a new political field – The case of the WILPF and Bulgarian women’sorganisations

Francesca Piana (University of Geneva) – Women Doctors and the Feminist Separate Sphere. The American Women’s Hospitals In Greece, 1917-1941

Tuesday 4th June

9.00-9.20

Coffee

9.20-11.00

Moderator: Ronald Suny, (University of Michigan)

Davide Rodogno and Emmanuel Dalle Mulle (Graduate Institute, Geneva) Three crossroads: Berlin (1878), Versailles (1919) and Geneva (from 1920 to 1934). How and why humanitarian interventions and minority rights intertwined.

Laura Robson (Portland State University) Minorities Treaties and Mandatory Regimes: Sovereignty and Race in the Peace Treaties

11.20-12.50

Moderator: Alexander Semyonov (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg)

Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark (Åland Islands Peace Institute) – The Åland Islands Solution in Context

Steen Bo Frandsen (University of Southern Denmark) – The Danish-German border: Historical Rights, National Self-determination and Minorities

12.50-13.50

Lunch (for speakers, moderators and registered participants)

13.50-15.10

Moderator: Judith Pallot, (University of Oxford/University of Helsinki)

Charlotte Alston (Northumbria University) – Representing Russia’s rights at and around the Paris Peace Conference

Ivan Sablin (University of Heidelberg) – The Wilsonian Moment in Siberia and the Far East: Buryat-Mongols and Koreans between the Paris Peace Conference and the Comintern, 1919–1920

15.10-15.30

Coffee

15.30-16.20

Concluding roundtable: Rights 100 years after Versailles