In the second of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibrahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.

Giorgios is a PhD researcher in the Department of History of the European University Institute.

Ibrahim is a DPhil student in Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

This podcast, recorded on 19 May 2025, looks at how identity intersects with partition. What does the partition of Cyprus look like and feel like, experienced first hand, growing up on a divided island in the shadow of a divisive history? The guests in this episode are both researchers working on questions related to Cypriot life, culture, identity, and politics. At the same time they are Cypriots who grew up in the partitioned island. We explore how partition intersects with identity, forming and being formed, in individual experiences, and in the collective making of contemporary Cypriotness as it may be.

This is the second in a special series of podcasts that emerged from Partitioning for Peace,TLP’s 2024 conference at City, University of London. For an introduction to the series as a whole, click here. These podcasts were supported by the Modern Greek Studies Association Innovation Grant, and the UK Prevention Research Partnership (Violence, Health and Society; MR-VO49879/1).

Episode 75 – The Shadow of the Partition

Podcasts are published by TLP for the purpose of encouraging informed debate on the legacies of the events surrounding the Lausanne Conference. The views expressed by participants do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of TLP, its partners, convenors or members.

MUSIC CREDIT: Gregory Davis, Ocean View (Epidemic Sounds). IMAGE CREDIT: Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.