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The Lausanne Project (TLP)
by TLP Convenors
A century ago the Treaty of Lausanne remade the Middle East, in ways we are still struggling to understand. Join historians, anthropologists, curators and commentators as we tease out the legacies for Turkey, its neighbours and the wider world, and for more content, visit our website at www.thelausanneproject.com
Episodes
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PODCAST – Episode 86: Karagiozis at the Front
What did Hacivad and Karagiozis really do in 1922? As Anthi Chotzakoglou explains to Jonathan Conlin, the pair didn't go to Lausanne. Instead they brought a mixture of courage, propaganda and comic relief to a range of audiences on the Anatolian front.
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PODCAST – Episode 85: Masters of Mogador
Francisco Javier Martínez and Ozan Ozavci discuss a distinctive form of sanitary internationalism that emerged in Morocco in the late eighteenth century, shaping the intertwined histories of pilgrimage, pandemics, and imperialism.
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PODCAST – Episode 84: Grandfather Clauses
Extending citizenship to marginal communities is one way states grab power and influence, as well as subjects, away from rival powers. But shopping among rival "protectors" gives individuals agency, too. Çiğdem Oğuz and Jonathan Conlin discuss the "paperscapes" of nationality on the margins of…
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PODCAST – Episode 83: Divorce Court
What happened when Islamic judges (qadis) steeped in divine law found themselves answerable to Habsburg officials who had never opened a Quran? Ninja Bumann and Julia Secklehner discuss how Habsburg-occupied Bosnia dealt with sensitive matters of marriage and divorce.
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PODCAST – Episode 82: Under The Walnut Tree
Lausanne displaced the living, and it desecrated the dead that exchanged communities left behind. Jonathan Conlin talks to Leonidas Karakatsanis and Ülker Başak Yesilkaya about grass-roots initiatives that are reversing this necroviolence.
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PODCAST – Episode 81: Through the Streets of Tunis
Adnen El Ghali talks to Giorgio Ennas about his recently published book Quand la diplomatie fait la ville, which brings together the consular and architectural histories of Tunis.
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PODCAST – Episode 80: Subjects of Ridicule
Can satire build bridges between communities, as well as between past and present? Anna Kollatz talks Julia Secklehner through Erst lachen, dann denken!/Laugh first, think later!, a recent exhibition of caricatures from the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, on display in Heidelberg.
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PODCAST – Episode 79: Heritage on the Frontline
When the shooting starts, does the archaeology stop? Ceren Abi talks to Julia Secklehner about how the Ottomans and Allied powers engaged with and occasionally weaponized antiquities during the Great War.
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PODCAST – Episode 78: The Future of a Divided Island
In the last of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Harry Tzimitras, Ahmet Sözen, Ipek Borman and Ibrahim Ince confront Cyprus’s present impasse.
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PODCAST – Episode 77: Material Cultures and Landscapes of Partition
In the fourth of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Ibrahim Ince and Ezgican Özdemir explore how the material world records Cyprus’s division.
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PODCAST – Episode 76: The Cypriot Diaspora
In the third of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Panikos Panayi and Giorgios Charalambous trace how Cypriots have made lives for themselves across the island's global diaspora.
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PODCAST – Episode 75: The Shadow of the Partition
In the second of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.
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PODCAST – Episode 74: History and Memory of Partition
In the first of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Andrekos Varnava and Beyza Kiziltepe trace how Cyprus's division continues to live in the memory.
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PODCAST – Episode 73: The Icy Gale of Death
Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.
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PODCAST – Episode 72: The Universe of the In-Between
William Stroebel introduces Jonathan Conlin to the stories Lausanne tried to silence, that combined scripts and vocabularies in ways that challenged philologists' obsession with linguistic purity and authorial intent.
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PODCAST – Episode 71: Developing the Nation
Özge Baykan Calafato introduces Julia Secklehner and Enno Maessen to her work exploring the role of photography in developing modern Turkish citizenship.
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PODCAST – Episode 70: Prophet of Reason
Peter Hill talks to Charles Ough about Dr Mikha’il Mishaqa, the Mount Lebanon-born polymath and US Vice Consul in Damascus whose long life encompassed some of the most important events of the tumultuous nineteenth-century in Syria and Egypt, culminating in the 1860 massacre of the Christians of...
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PODCAST – Episode 69: Restoration Histories
Bariş Altan introduces Julia Secklehner to Cahide Tamer, a pioneer in architectural restoration and one of the first women architects in Turkey. Recently rescued, her archive fills a gap in the story of Istanbul's historic landmarks, while her example of courage gives inspiration to today's...
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PODCAST – Episode 68: Composing New Turkey
Long before the Turkish State Opera opened in 1949, Halide Edip Adıvar was mong those imagining what Turkish opera might sound like. In this conversation Jonathan Conlin asks Ici Vanwesenbeeck to explain how this remarkable polymath conceived of an opera that was neither "alla franca" nor "alla...
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PODCAST – Episode 67: Freehold of the World
Can Eyüp Çekiç and Enno Maessen revisit liberal internationalist David Davies' 1919 proposal to establish the League of Nations in Constantinople, making that city the seat of a truly international order, an order that the League failed to establish in Geneva.
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PODCAST – Episode 66: Teaching the Greater War
Jonathan Conlin invites Samuel Foster to explain the rationale behind his new module on "Europe in the Era of the Great War" and report on how students have engaged with imagology and uncomfortable analogies with their own times.
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PODCAST – Episode 65: Nansen’s People
Ozan Ozavci talks with Ismee Tames about her ongoing research into stateless people after World War I, uncovering the communities of care that stateless individuals created to rebuild their lives.
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PODCAST – Episode 64: Syria’s Choice
Eugene Rogan and Ozan Ozavci discuss the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today's challenges.
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PODCAST – Episode 63: My Own 1922
Anna Enepekidou looks back at a project that turned high schoolers into curators as well as students of history.
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PODCAST – Episode 62: Quarantine Questions
Şahin Yeşilyurt introduces Giorgio Ennas to his research on the relationship between the late Ottoman Empire's public health and fiscal regimes.
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PODCAST – Episode 61: Zionism and Race
Laura Almagor talks to Ozan Ozavci about how revisiting a supposed "Founding Father of Zionism" might open new avenues into alternative pasts and futures for Israel-Palestine.
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PODCAST – Episode 60: Inventing Ikbal
Nile Green walks Jonathan Conlin through Ikbal and Idries Shah's unstable stable of aliases and identities.
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PODCAST – Episode 59: Reverse Rescue Archaeology
Artemis Papatheodorou talks with Enno Maessen about the stories of Ottoman Greek refugees and their attachments to antiquities in the late Ottoman world.
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PODCAST – Episode 58: Permeable Boundaries
Emre Erol talks to Enno Maessen about Mushir Husein Kidwai, a prominent intellectual who pleaded for Muslims of the world to unite.
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PODCAST – Episode 57: Everywhere You Want To Be
Mert Cangönül discusses his ongoing research project on the Schengen visa regime with Enno Maessen.
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PODCAST – Episode 56: A Different Future
Amir Moghadam talks to Jonathan Conlin about his ongoing research into Iranian parliamentary discourse, which is shedding new light on the transition from Qajar to Pahlavi regimes.
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PODCAST – Episode 55: Oil and Emancipation
Sara Brinegar introduces Ozan Ozavci to her new book on the politics of oil in the post-WWI south Caucasus.
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PODCAST – Episode 54: Internal Cannibalism
Ozan Ozavci and Demetra Tzanaki discuss eugenics, a pseudo-science that informed how the Greek state treated displaced fellow Greeks a century ago, and that lies behind our concept of meritocracy.
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PODCAST – Episode 53: Empire of Refugees
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his new book on North Caucasian Muslim refugees, and reveals how the Ottoman Empire developed a refugee regime half a century before the League of Nations.
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PODCAST – Episode 52: Out of Home
Fioana Adamson and Kelly Greenhill speak about their new project on organised forced migration, past and present
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PODCAST – Episode 51: Torn Is The Curtain
Canan Balan and Jonathan Conlin discuss the emergence of early film culture in Istanbul.
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PODCAST – Episode 50: Revivals of Empire
Jeremy F. Walton and Julia Secklehner discuss the ERC-project Revenant: Revivals Of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation, which grapples with the complex, overlapping post-imperial memories and legacies of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Romanov Empires.
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PODCAST – Episode 49: Spectacular Sites
Hélène Maloigne and Julia Secklehner explore the role of archaeology in nation-building after the First World War and the discipline’s popularization in the early twentieth century.
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PODCAST – Episode 48: A River Runs Through It
Fokke Gerritsen, director of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey, talks to Enno Maessen about the Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities project, an initiative by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and partners.
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PODCAST – Episode 47: From Edirne to Atlantis
Pinar Odabasi Tasci and Jonathan Conlin discuss the contested borderlands of the late Ottoman Empire, from Edirne to the submerged exclave of Ada Kaleh.
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PODCAST – Episode 46: History in Fragments
Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher talk about their new book, A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments.
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PODCAST – Episode 45: Fiddler on the Front Page
Jamie Walters and David Roessel introduce Jonathan Conlin to the American journalist Lincoln Steffens, whose Lausanne reports they dramatized, with the help of Eva Leaverton and Roniña Borja.
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PODCAST – Episode 44: Big Tobacco
Sibel Karakoc and Jonathan Conlin explore how the American tobacco industry responded to the existential threat posed by Lausanne and the population exchange.
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PODCAST – Episode 43: The Lion Returns
Paolo Girardelli and Enno Maessen discuss one of the most iconic diplomatic landmarks of Istanbul, the Palazzo Venezia.
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PODCAST – Episode 42: A Textbook Case
Kent Schull and Jonathan Conlin talk textbooks: how can they do more to acknowledge forced migration as a recurring pattern in the history of the modern Middle East and the wider world?
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PODCAST – Episode 41: Reading the Clouds
Davide Rodogno and Ozan Ozavci consider how ideas of civilisation, race, and religion shaped humanitarianism in the interwar Near East.
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PODCAST – Episode 40: The Utopia of the Couch Party
Nermin Elsherif and Enno Maessen explore the nostalgic world of "al-zaman al-gamil": an online fantasy that Egypt's "dispossessed" middle-class calls home.
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PODCAST – Episode 39: Corridors of Power
Nilay Özlü and Enno Maessen discuss the changing roles of Topkapı Palace, from Abdulaziz to the Allied Occupation.
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PODCAST – Episode 38: The Toynbee Affair
Arie Dubnov and Jonathan Conlin discuss the founding father of "World History".
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PODCAST – Episode 37: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists
Mostafa Minawi and Ozan Ozavci discuss the stories of Sadik and Shafiq al-Mu’ayyad Azmzade, two İstanbullu imperialists from Syria, who experienced the loss of the very empire that defined them.
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A century ago the Treaty of Lausanne remade the Middle East, in ways we are still struggling to understand. Join historians, anthropologists, curators and commentators as we tease out the legacies for Turkey, its neighbours and the wider world, and for more content, visit our website at www.thelausanneproject.com
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