This episode, in French, explores the changing craft of historians in the digital age through the book "Écrire l'Histoire: Gestes et expériences à l'ère numérique" and a conversation with historian and co-author of the book, Frédéric Clavert. It examines how smartphones, search engines, databases, online archives, social media and AI reshape research practices—reading, searching, annotating and writing history.

The discussion covers working with web archives and massive corpora like Twitter, the shift from finite collections to continual data streams, the emotional and methodological impact of digitization, and the emerging uses and challenges of AI and metadata for historical analysis.

Resources: Ask a Librarian! Ask an Archivist! Muller, C. & Clavert, F. (2025) Écrire l’histoire : gestes et expériences à l’ère numérique. Malakoff, France: Armand Colin. Available via Global Search

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Contenu

Invité : Frédéric Clavert

Hôte : Amy Smith

Enregistré et produit à la Bibliothèque et Archives des Nations Unies à Genève

Editors Karin van Leeuwen and Morten Rasmussen explain how their Cambridge Handbook uses deep archival research across dozens of collections and brings together international contributors to reveal how the League of Nations used legal techniques, institutions, and networks to shape an incipient form of global governance.

The episode highlights key findings — the League’s legal section and court experiments, tensions between sovereign equality and imperial hierarchies, and case studies like Upper Silesia and the Manchurian crisis — and argues the handbook reframes the League as central to the development of international law and institutions, while noting the limits of ‘‘peace through law".

Resources: Ask a Librarian! Ask an Archivist! Ikonomou, H. A. et al. (eds.) (2026) The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Available via Global Search

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Content

Guests: Karin van Leeuwen

Morten Rasmussen

Host: Amy Smith

Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

Mario Oyarzábal, Member of the International Law Commission and the Legal Advisor to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, discusses the new book International Law for Diplomats, a concise, practitioner-focused guide written to help diplomats—lawyers and non-lawyers alike—handle real-world issues like treaty negotiation, state immunities, use of force, human rights, and dispute settlement.

The episode explains the book’s structure around systemic issues, current issues, and practical craft, its accessible style, and the UN Legal Counsel’s foreword. Its central message is that international law is not a specialist domain but diplomacy’s keystone, essential for advancing state interests and reinforcing the rule of law.

Mario Oyarzábal reminds us, "that international law is a toolbox for cooperation for resolving disputes peacefully, for accountability."

Resources: Ask a Librarian! Ask an Archivist! International Law for Diplomats

Available via Global Search

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Content

Guest: Ambassador Mario Oyarzábal

Host: Amy Smith

Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

This is AI x Multilateralism, a playlist of conversations at the UN Library & Archives Geneva where we’re joined by experts who help us unpack the many ideas and issues at the nexus of AI and international cooperation.

The environmental impact of AI systems is becoming clearer and increasingly discussed. But what if we went beyond this to look at how the success of AI is dependent on the earth’s resources? In this episode we are joined by Martín Tironi Rodó, Director of FAIR, the Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research Nucleus, and the sociologist of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He shares why artificial intelligence is deeply interconnected with planetary intelligence, and calls for more research, agency and leadership across Chile and Latin America in shaping the future of AI.

Resources:

• Learn about the Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) Nucleus
• Discover the Conceptual Cartographies of AI
• Explore the Hybrid Ecologies Exhibition
• Discover the exhibition Bajo nuestros pies: The Rare Earths of AI
• Consult Martin's work and research publications

Production:

Guest: Martín Tironi Rodó Host, production and editing: Natalie Alexander Julien

Podcast Music credits:

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In this episode we explore some of the emotional and psychological life of international governance.

Professor Daniel Laqua, Professor Dan Gorman and Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard talk about GLO, a transatlantic research project examining how civil society, activists, and NGOs have campaigned to build, shape, reform or put an end to international organizations from the early 20th century to the early 2000s.

They discuss findings from the project about emotional experiences such as love, hate, trust, and sense of belonging in this context, and consider the way people relate to and through international institutions through psychodynamic concepts of projection and transference. Listen to examples from the League of Nations, United Nations Associations, Jubilee 2000, and the Council of Europe. Learn about the archival research methods, and what grassroots diplomacy suggests about the possibilities of change.

Resources: Ask a Librarian! Ask an Archivist!

Global Governance Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present (GLO)

Project website: https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo

The podcast was recorded on the occasion of the conference ‘Love, Hate, and the Fate of International Organisations: The Psychological Life of Global Governance (1900–Present)’, held at the Geneva Graduate Institute

https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/love-hate-and-fate-international-organisations-psychological-life-global

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Content

Guests: Professor Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, UK.

Professor Dan Gorman, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard, Institute for History, Leiden University.

Host: Amy Smith

Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

This is AI x Multilateralism, a playlist of conversations at the UN Library & Archives Geneva where we’re joined by experts who help us unpack the many ideas and issues at the nexus of AI and international cooperation.

Should philanthropy be a part of the development and governance of AI? We’re exploring this question with Hubert Halopé and Giuseppe Ugazio, both part of the team at the Artificial Intelligence & Philanthropy Project at the University of Geneva. They explore: - Why studying the links between AI and philanthropy matter.

- The findings in the project's open source book, The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy, including how AI can be used within philanthropy itself, and how philanthropy can impact the inclusive and responsible development and use of AI.

- Why philanthropic organisations should play a key role in AI governance and in the ethical use of AI, and

- How philanthropy can be present in multilateral AI governance mechanisms at the UN.

Resources:

• Learn about the Artificial Intelligence & Philanthropy Project at the University of Geneva.
• Read The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy (open source version), edited by Giuseppe Ugazio & Milos Maricic.
• Read Giuseppe's recommended book, The Green and The Blue: Digital Politics in Philosophical Discussion, edited by Luciano Floridi and Jörg Noller.

Production:

Guests: Giuseppe Ugazio and Hubert Halopé Host, production and editing: Natalie Alexander Julien

Podcast Music credits:

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Philanthropy #Governance

In this episode Lynda Chinenye Iroulo, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University in Qatar, discusses how African states actively shaped multilateral institutions. Drawing on her research in decolonial international relations and the design of regional organizations, she talks about the history behind the African Union, the African Peer Review Mechanism, and the push for common African positions at the UN.

Lynda highlights examples such as the shift from non‑intervention to the responsibility to protect, reforms in peace support operations, debates over the ICC, and ongoing calls for UN reform. She argues for a post‑colonial institutionalist lens to make African contributions visible and to rethink how global institutions are designed and implemented.

Resources: Ask a Librarian! Essays on Global Regionalism

Acharya, A., De Lombaerde, P., Futák-Campbell, B., Iroulo, L. C., & Batista, J. P. (Eds.). (2026). Essays on Global Regionalism I: The Past, Present and Future of Regionalism Studies. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13642-8

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Content

Guest: Lynda Chinenye Iroulu, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/faculty/lynda-chinenye-iroulo/

Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

This is AI x Multilateralism, a playlist of conversations at the UN Library & Archives Geneva where we’re joined by experts who help us unpack the many ideas and issues at the nexus of AI and international cooperation.

For this conversation we’re joined by Emily Tucker, Executive Director at the Center on Privacy & Technology and Adjunct Professor of Law, at Georgetown Law. There are many calls today to enact redlines for AI, but what about redlines for data? In this episode, we explore Emily’s work and research on what’s called datafication. She shares what this means, the impact of datafication on political participation and the public interest, and the implications for our collective capacity to create the futures we want as communities and societies. She also reflects on three priorities for data redlines, and what multilateral fora should be asking when it comes to how data is collected and used in today’s world.

Resources:

• Learn about the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
• Read Emily's article "To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data" on TechPolicy.Press
• Consult Emily's recommendation: "Datafication", by Ulises A Mejias and Nick Couldry (open access article, UN Library & Archives Geneva)
• Explore the work of The Distributed AI Research Institute, Emily's recommended open access resource.

Production:

Guest: Emily Tucker Host, production and editing: Natalie Alexander Julien

Podcast Music credits:

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Data #DataRedlines #Datafication