New Publication by Erik Koenen and other ZeMKI Members

A new publication entitled “Communicating the League of Nations: Contributions to a Transnational Communication History of the League of Nations in the Inter-War Period (1920-1938)” by Dr. Erik Koenen and other ZeMKI members has been published.

The publication, released by United Nations, includes contributions by ZeMKI members Dr. Erik Koenen and Arne L. Gellrich and former ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz-Lietz.
The publication by editor Dr. Erik Koenen includes illustrations by Arne L. Gellrich and presents the results of joint research projects at ZeMKI from 2017-2022.

The Publication

The contributions:

• Communicating the League of Nations – an introduction
  Erik Koenen, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz and Arne L. Gellrich

• “Collaboration of the press in the organisation of peace”: the League of Nations as a catalyst for important intellectual trends
  Kaarle Nordenstreng and Tarja Seppä

• Discovering open diplomacy: the League of Nations’ Information Section 1920-1932 and its external and internal communication
  Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz

• In search of the Geneva journalist : a biographical kaleidoscope of the journalistic sphere around the Assemblies of the League of Nations from 1920 to 1938
  Arne L. Gellrich and Erik Koenen

• Cinematography as a medium of communication: the promotion of research by the League of Nations and Rudolf Arnheim’s role in this context
  Jürgen Wilke

• Locating the League of Nations’ communication world – a response
  Emil Eiby Seidenfaden

• Notes on contributors