INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S LEAGUE
FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
FOURTH EDUCATIONAL COURSE
Addressing
THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ETHICAL
FACTORS’ SIGNIFICANCE FOR WORLD PEACE AND
RECONCILIATION
IN STOCKHOLM, JANUARY 7–11, 1928
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S HALL, KLARA ÖSTRA KYRKOGATA 10
UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED IN THE PROGRAM
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Greetings — Miss Matilda Widegren.
Opening address — His Excellency Ekman.
The Nationalist Movement in China (2 lectures),
Professor B. Karlgren.
— Lunch break —
2:30 – 5 p.m.
The relationship between whites and people of color in India,
Pastor Paul Sandegreen.
Impressions from the 1927 International Congress of the Women’s League,
His Excellency Löfgren.
The relations between Black and white people in American social life,
Speaker: Anna Lenah Elgström-Collijn.
8 p.m.
Social gathering at the International Club, Hamngatan 8,
2nd floor, to provide course participants with an opportunity for fellowship. [page 2]
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8
6 p.m.
Peace vespers at Gustaf Vasa Church,
Chief Preacher E. Hallberg.
8 p.m.
Reception for Miss Sheepshanks and other
foreign guests at Hôtel Anglais, Stureplan.
MONDAY, JANUARY 9
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The idea of peace in Judaism,
Chief Rabbi Dr. M. Ehrenpreis.
New forms of worker protection,
Vocational inspector Kerstin Hesselgren.
The International Association for Social Improvements
in Industry, its work and aims,
Miss Brenda Voysey, England.
(Summary translation.)
— Lunch break —
2:30 – 5 p.m.
Cooperation between workers and employers,
Director van der Leeuw, Holland.
(Summary translation.)
Colonial imperialism,
Miss Mary Sheepshanks, Geneva.
(Summary translation.)
7 p.m.
At the Swedish School Museum, Hantverkargatan 19, ground floor.
The role of film in the service of reconciliation.
Introductory talk and discussion.
Film screening.
Opportunity to visit the Swedish School Museum and the Pedagogical
Library starting at 6 p.m. [page 3]
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The Mandate System and the Mandate Commission,
Mrs. Anna Bugge-Wicksell.
Work for the freedom of international trade,
State Secretary E. Modig.
Esperanto in the service of peace,
Pastor Cseh, Romania.
Translation by Principal Sam Jansson.
— Lunch break —
2:30 – 5 p.m.
Poison gases and peace work (light images),
Docent Axel Höjer.
Experiences from the front,
Student W. Hammerlath, Bonn.
(Summary translation.)
8 p.m.
Evening meeting at the Women’s International League’s assembly hall
What responsibilities does the present generation bear
toward future generations?
Introductions: Principal Herman Söderbergh, Principal
Honorine Hermelin, and Captain C. J. Brunskog.
Discussion.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The relationship between whites and people of color in South Africa,
Pastor Paul Sandegren.
Problems of education in tropical mandated territories,
Mrs. Anna Bugge-Wicksell.
Nation-building work in Latvia,
Mrs. Paula Abel, Latvia.
(Summary translation.)
— Lunch break — [page 4]
2:30-5 p.m. Lecture on peace (2 lectures), professor Otto Nordenskjöld. Conclusion.
8 p.m. Evening meeting in K. F. U. M:s hall. Is pacifism reality-estranged? Church Council Sam. Thysell.
Registrations for the course received at the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom office, David Bagaresgata 9-11, 2 tr., which is also visited during the ongoing course. During the ongoing course, meeting fee is charged at the Läkaresällskapets [Medical Society's] premises. Letter ticket 5 kr. Half-day ticket 75 öre. Ticket for evening meetings 75 öre, for the gathering 1:25, for the reception 3 kr. Tickets for the film screening are available free of charge within the limits of space.
Stockholm, Oskar Eklunds boktrykeri, 1927
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