Ozan Ozavci traces how Royal Dutch Shell and the young Turkish republic courted each other over Anatolia’s petroleum, only for both to get cold feet and walk away.
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Drops of Oil
Ozan Ozavci traces how Royal Dutch Shell and the young Turkish republic courted each other over Anatolia’s petroleum, only for both to get cold feet and walk away.
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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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The Lausanne Project – Teachers’ Workshop
The Lausanne Project will host a Teachers’ Workshop on 26–27 March 2026 in Utrecht, bringing together Greek and Turkish teachers and Education Experts. The workshop is organised with the support of the Dynamics of Youth strategic theme’s YELS programme. How can teachers address sensitive historical topics in the classroom? How can we change not just…
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Arrivals and Survivals
Kemal Deniz Karabacak on how he encountered traces of Greek-speaking Muslim exchangees in his own backyard of Çatalca.
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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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Reflections From Two Shores: A Conference Report
Sinem Arslan shares her reflections on last week’s conference, held at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, on the legacies of the Lausanne population exchange.
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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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Drawing the Past(s)
Clara Vlessing peeks into TLP’s “De la lumière à l’ombre” to explore what comics can do.
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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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From Treaty to Tree: A Postcard from Nea Roda
In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.
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Plotting in a Time of Cholera
Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism.
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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 Damascus in which Mishaqa narrowly escaped with his life.
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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 preservationists.
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Milk Kinship Between Empires
Salih Yasun on how unexpected and intimate ties connect Kavala to Alexandria via Görükle.
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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 turca”.
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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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Alma’s Abdülhamid
Hadwig Kraeutler on an overlooked 1940 biography that presented the sultan as a key to past, present and future.
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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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Teaching (While Deconstructing)
Bariş Çelik takes stock of his new undergraduate module on “The Making of the Modern Middle East”, which seeks to de-essentialise the region in students’ minds
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The Gatsby of Fatih
A folly built by a Gatsbyesque “Bulgur King”, Bulgur Palas in Fatih has been rescued by the city of Istanbul. But, Hande Altinay argues, there’s a story here that’s still waiting to be told.
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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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A Tale of Two Towers
Gert Huskens tells the story of two water towers, one in Tangier, the other in Utrecht, that connect the histories of global entrepreneurship and sanitary internationalism.
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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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