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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- International conferencing as a political practice -- Structure -- Approaches -- Chapter 1: Towards an historical geography of international conferencing -- Introduction -- Pre-histories of the modern conference -- Modern international conferences -- Liberal international conferencing -- Colonial, imperial and Commonwealth conferencing -- Anti-colonial, non-aligned and activist conferencing -- Conclusion -- Part I: State internationalism -- Chapter 2: Ambassadors, activists and experts: Conferencing and the internationalization of international relations in the nineteenth century -- Chapter 3: Contesting representations of indigeneity at the First Inter-American Indigenista Congress, 1940 -- Introduction -- The physical and social spaces of the conference -- Leadership of and participation in the conference -- Indigenous agency, voice and resistance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Awe and espionage at Lancaster House: The African decolonization conferences of the early 1960s -- Introduction -- Background to the conferences -- The London advantage: Control, influence, expertise, infrastructure and espionage -- 'The Lancaster House treatment' -- Travelling from Africa -- Conclusion -- Part II: Science, civil society and the state -- Chapter 5: Conferencing the aerial future -- The international atmosphere -- Aerial futures at the 1926 Imperial Conference -- Weather permitting: The 1929 Conference of Empire Meteorologists -- Rehearsing the aerial future: The 1930 Imperial Conference -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Scientific internationalism in a time of crisis: The Month of Intellectual Cooperation at the 1937 Paris World Fair -- Introduction: Paris 1937 - A huge 'waste of time'?.

The Month of Intellectual Cooperation: A guardian angel for world peace? -- The World Congress of Universal Documentation 1937: Non-utopian internationalism? -- Conclusion: Internationalism, networking and the benefits of chitchat -- Chapter 7: Between camaraderie and rivalry: Geopolitics at the eighteenth International Geographical Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 1956 -- Introduction -- Media narratives on the eighteenth IGC -- Practical geopolitical reasoning at the conference -- Final words -- Part III: Permanent institutions -- Chapter 8: Spectacular peacebuilding: The League of Nations and internationalist visions at interwar World Expos -- War and peace at the Paris Exposition of 1937 -- A pavilion in partnership: The League and the RUP's proletarian internationalism -- An appeal to American psychology? The League at the New York World's Fair of 1939 -- A technical League: Accommodating multiple internationalisms -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Re-situating Bretton Woods: Site and venue in relation to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, June 1944 -- Timing/site/venue -- Social atmosphere -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Countenancing and conferencing Japan at the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1945-54 -- Introduction -- The IPR: A collaborative space? -- Countenancing and conferencing Japan, with Gourou -- Hot Springs 1945 -- Stratford-upon-Avon 1947 -- Lucknow 1950 -- Kyoto 1954 -- Conclusion -- Part IV: Political networks -- Chapter 11: Alternative internationalisms in East Asia: The Conferences of the Asian Peoples, Japanese-Chinese rivalry and Japanese imperialism, 1924-43 -- Introduction -- 'Asia' against the 'West'? -- Transnational pan-Asianist activities and the first Conference of the Asian Peoples (1926) -- The second Pan-Asian Conference in Shanghai -- State-sponsored Pan-Asian Conferences in Dalian (1934) and Tokyo (1943).

Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Partnership in/against empire: Pan-African and imperial conferencing after the Second World War -- Towards Pan-African Federation -- Imperialism divides - Socialism unites -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13: Skies that bind: Air travel in the Bandung era -- Journeys in the making of Third World diplomacy -- 'Progress' and 'solidarity' in the literati's layover -- Conclusion -- Index.