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International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation

Advisory academic institution to the League of Nations

Field	Value
name	International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
status	International organisation
formation	1922
location	Geneva

In its first years the committee worked on the protection of intellectual property copyright, library information science (LIS), educational management, education, youth, the future of culture, international collaboration in arts and literature, protection of historical monuments, cooperation between galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM), etc. This way it gave rise to the United Nations Education Science Culture Organization (UNESCO).

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (Geneva)

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICICIC), formally established in August 1922. Having started out with 12 members, its membership later grew to 19 individuals, mostly from Western Europe. The first session was held on August 1, 1922, under the chairmanship of Henri Bergson. During its lifetime, the committee attracted a variety of prominent members, for instance Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Kristine Bonnevie, Jules Destrée, Robert Andrews Millikan, Alfredo Rocco, Paul Painlevé, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Gonzague de Reynold, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Einstein resigned in 1923, protesting publicly the committee's inefficacy; he rejoined in 1924 to mitigate the use German chauvinists made of his resignation. The body was successively chaired by:

Henri Bergson (1922–1925)
Hendrik Lorentz (1925–1928)
Gilbert Murray (1928–1939). The ICIC maintains a number of sub-committees (e.g. Museums, Arts and Letters, Intellectual Rights or Bibliography) which also work with figures such as Béla Bartók, Thomas Mann, Salvador de Madariaga and Paul Valéry.

The ICIC works closely with the International Educational Cinematographic Institute created in Rome in 1928 by the Italian government under Mussolini.

File:League of Nations Commission 067.tif|ICIC Plenary session (date unknown, between 1924 and 1927). File:BergsonNitobeIntellectualCooperation.jpg|Henri Bergson (ICIC president) to Inazo Nitobe (International Bureaux Section director), 1924. File:League of Nations Commission 075.tif|ICIC Plenary session 1939. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-11045, Genf, Haus des Völkerbundrates.jpg|The Palais Wilson (Geneva), seat of the LoN and the ICIC between 1922 and 1937.

The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (Paris)

Julien Luchaire (1926–1930)
Henri Bonnet (1931–1940)
Jean-Jacques Mayoux (1945–1946) From 1926 to 1930, Alfred Zimmern – the well-known British classicist and a pioneering figure in the discipline of international relations – served as the IIIC's deputy director.

As a result of the Second World War, the institute was closed from 1940 to 1944. It re-opened briefly from 1945 to 1946. When it closed for good in 1946, UNESCO inherited its archives and some parts of its mission. The archives, consisting of 115 linear metres of material spanning from 1925 to 1946, were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2017.

References

General

(English summary)

Specific

See also: French version (PDF) and English summary.

Notes

References

Grandjean, Martin. (2014). "La connaissance est un réseau". Les Cahiers du Numérique.
"Initial Steps and Institutions of the ICIC".
Albert Einstein, ''Ideas and Opinions'' (New York: Bonanza/Crown, 1954), p. 84.
(1929-12-17). "International Educational Cinematographic Institute".
LoN archives 1924, United Nations Offices in Geneva. Picture from [http://www.martingrandjean.ch/archives-images-apercus-commission-cooperation-intellectuelle/ this collection].
Rodríguez-Casañ, Rubén. (2024-10-24). "Analysing inter-state communication dynamics and roles in the networks of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
"UNESCO Archives".
"Archives of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, 1925-1946".

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