The Lausanne Project

February 18, 2022March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 10: The Roads to Lausanne

Jay Winter discusses his forthcoming landmark study of Lausanne with Jonathan Conlin.

February 11, 2022January 9, 2023

We’ve been here before

by Beste Işleyen

February 4, 2022March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 9: Gaziantep’s Forgotten Past

Ümit Kurt explains to Jonathan Conlin how an innocent question asked in his local cafe launched him on a journey into Gaziantep’s past, uncovering the genocidal violence that gave birth to a new Muslim bourgeoisie.

January 28, 2022May 20, 2022

Çamërian Chimera?

by Isa Blumi

January 21, 2022May 20, 2022

Lesson learnt, or “easy way out”?

by Danilo Sarenac

January 14, 2022March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 8: Eternal Dawn

Ryan Gingeras speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his 2019 book Eternal Dawn and the Kemalist mythos in Turkey.

January 10, 2022August 18, 2022

Toynbee or Not Toynbee?

by Jonathan Conlin

December 31, 2021May 20, 2022

(Re)Turning the Tables

by N. Kashani, B. Mendez, J. Schaller and E. Vuichoud

December 24, 2021May 20, 2022

A Railway that Goes Nowhere

by Zeynep Kaşlı

December 10, 2021March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 7: The Other Republic

Ozan Ozavci talks to James Ryan about early Republican political thought and loyal opposition in Turkey: liberals and leftists from Nazım Hikmet to Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. What made these figures the loyal opponents of the republic? And what did Lausanne mean to them?

November 26, 2021May 20, 2022

Shouldn’t you be studying?

by Killian Amour, Syméon Bruzzese and Francisco Carvalho Da Costa

November 12, 2021May 20, 2022

Prometheists and Pashas

by Paulina D. Dominik

October 29, 2021March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 6: Fueling Speculation

Popular conspiracy theories surrounding the 2023 Lausanne centenary are steeped in oil. Jonathan Conlin invited Zeynep Oguz to discuss how this “absent presence” is invoked in debates surrounding irredentism and national sovereignty in Erdogan’s Turkey.

October 15, 2021May 20, 2022

We Hope You Enjoy Your Stay

by Zacharie Barrière

October 12, 2021May 20, 2022

Teaching Global History in a Pandemic

by Guillaume Beausire

October 1, 2021August 18, 2022

“A Bad and Vicious Solution”

by Leonard Smith

Secrétariat de la SDN: Section d'Hygiène, S18

September 17, 2021May 20, 2022

A Catalyst of Public Health

by Haakon Ikonomou

September 6, 2021November 15, 2021

A Civil Unionist

with Ayşe Köse Badur

August 20, 2021May 20, 2022

Getting Away with Murder

by Gonçalo Ferreira Rodrigues, Yann Bourquard and Hugo Aghte

August 6, 2021March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 5: The First Clash

Seventy years before Samuel Huntington there was Basil Mathews. Jonathan Conlin and historian Todd Thompson revisit a forgotten text that launched “the clash of civilizations”.

July 24, 2021May 20, 2022

Gateway to the Future?

by Semih Gökatalay

July 24, 2021March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 4: Lifting the Curse of Lausanne?

What will 2023 mean for today’s Turkey? Jonathan Conlin in conversation with historian Nick Danforth.

July 24, 2021March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 3: When is a tree also a registered charity?

Ozan Ozavci asks Gingko’s founder Barbara Schwepcke about the inspiration and vision behind the foundation, and how its support for TLP fits into its broader agenda.

July 12, 2021May 20, 2022

Black Eye and Vulture

by Ilkim Büke Okyar

June 17, 2021November 13, 2021

Afyon to Ōsaka

by William G. Clarence-Smith

June 3, 2021August 5, 2022

The Woman of No Importance

by Michelle Tusan

May 20, 2021November 2, 2021

Electric Ottomans

with Cihan Tekay

May 6, 2021March 1, 2024

PODCAST – Episode 2: Hemingway at Lausanne

“They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” James Gifford talks to Jonathan Conlin about Hemingway’s poetic response to the Lausanne conference, winter sports, and a lost suitcase.