International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
| International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation | ||||||||
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| Capital | Geneva | |||||||
| Political structure | International organization | |||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | |||||||
| • | Creation | 1922 | ||||||
| • | Dissolution | 1946 | ||||||
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The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (sometimes League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation) was an advisory organization for the League of Nations which aimed to promote international exchange between scientists, researchers, teachers, artists and intellectuals. It was established in 1922, and counted such distinguished figures as Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Robert A. Millikan among its members.
The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) was formally established in January 1922. Having started out with 12 members, its membership later grew to 19 individuals. The first session was held in August 1922, under the chairmanship of Henri Bergson; its work continued until 1939. 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, Gonzague de Reynold 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:
The ICIC maintained a number of sub-committees (e.g. on Museums and on Arts and Letters) which also worked with figures such as Béla Bartók, Thomas Mann, Salvador de Madariaga and Paul Valéry.
The ICIC worked closely with the International Educational Cinematographic Institute (Istituto Internazionale del Cinema Educatore) created in Rome in 1928 by the Italian government.
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