From a republic of scholars to a community of researchers

Jean-Luc de Paepe, Pierre Jodogne, Isabelle Algrain

This volume presents the Union Académique Internationale (UAI), an organisation born in the context of the peace movements just after the First World War (1919). Its primary goal is international scientific cooperation via long term projects in the domain of the humanities and social sciences.00To celebrate the centenary of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) the present volume brings together diverse studies, essays and testimonies offering as many different viewpoints on the history, the realisations and the perspectives of this remarkable institution.0In 1919, just after the end of the Great War, a first group of institutions active in the 'Humanities' strove for lasting peace and decided to collaborate unanimously towards the realisation of a number of large projects in the fields of philology, archaeology, historiography and social sciences. The initiative for this...