The Aftermath of the First World War Humanitarianism in the Mediterranean International Conference 3-4 December 2019 Università di Milano – Dipartimento di Studi Storici AULA CROCIERA ALTA DI GIURISPRUDENZA, VIA FESTA DEL PERDONO 7 Conveners and Contact: Johannes Paulmann paulmann@ieg-mainz.de, Silvia Salvatici silvia.salvatici@unimi.it In Cooperation with: German Historical Institute Rome dhi-roma.it and Villa Vigoni-German Italian Centre for European Excellence villavigoni.eu TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 14.30-15.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Antonino De Francesco (Head of Department of Historical Studies, University of Milan) Johannes Paulmann (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz) Silvia Salvatici (University of Milan) 15.00-16.00 Chair: Silvia Salvatici (University of Milan) Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Missions, Relief and Development: the shapes, purposes, and achievements of international humanitarianism in the aftermath of the First World War Coffee break 16.30-18.30 I HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS Chair: Martin Baumeister (German Historical Institute in Rome) Philippe Bourmaud (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3) Protestant and Catholic relief operation in interwar Middle East Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe (Institute of Education, UCL) Humanities activists and humanitarian aid: an Anglo-Italian network (1915-1922) Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo (University of Coimbra) Educating empires: religious internationalisms and Africa in the 1920s WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 9.00-10.00 Chair: Christiane Liermann (Villa Vigoni, Italian-German Centre for Excellence) Silvia Salvatici (University of Milan) Feeding the kids of the war enemy. Austrian children in post-war Italy 10.00-12.30 II HUMANITARIAN RELIEF Chair: Esther Moeller (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz) Pol Dalmau (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz) Protection, displacement and the politics of neutrality: Spanish humanitarianism in West Africa Asya Darbinyan (Stockton University and Clark University) The Great War and Russian imperial humanitarianism: the case of Armenian refugees of war and genocide Coffee break Ruth Nattermann (Bundeswehr University Munich) Protagonists of humanitarianism. The Greek-Turkish population exchange in the mirror of international refugee politics and social relief work Alex Dowdall (University of Manchester) The local dynamics of modern humanitarianism: refugees in the French Mediterranean, 1919-1939 Lunch 14.00-15.45 III HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT Chair: Johannes Paulmann (Leibniz Institute of European History) Alexandros Makris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Greek Welfare Ministry (1917-1922): provisional or permanent institution? Elisabeth Kontogiorgi (Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens) Humanitarianism and economic intervention: public health improvement in Greece (1922-1930) Sara Silverstein (University of Connecticut) The Little Health Entente and rural health in Yugoslavia: relief to development in post-imperial Europe Coffee break 16.15-17.30 Laura Robson (Portland State University) Human capital? The finances of humanitarianism in the post-war Eastern Mediterranean Daniel Maul (University of Oslo) The ILO’s early work for migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean 17.30-18.00 Concluding Remarks Karène Sanchez (Leiden University) Claudia Baldoli (University of...