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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Από το Ouchy στο Auschwitz;
Ο Jonathan Conlin αξιολογεί τη μονογραφία της εκατονταετηρίδας του Hans-Lukas Kieser, η οποία αμφισβητεί ριζικά τις απόψεις της Λωζάνης ως «επιτυχία».
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Postcard from Gemlik
Eftal Coşkun reports from a recent conference exploring legal aspects of the Lausanne Treaty.
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The Foreigner in Piraeus
Anna Batzeli reveals how French forces brought cholera to Piraeus during their occupation of Greece, making the war twice as deadly.
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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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Back to School
Georgios Giannakopoulos returns to his alma mater in Athens, to help lead a workshop in which local high school students debated what Lausanne meant to them.
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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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Mogador
Ali Al Tuma visits the past and present of Essaouira, a city of timeless beauty that bears the scars of plague and cholera.
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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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Conventional Excuses
Gözde Kırcıoğlu on the silent impact of the Nansen Report on the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange convention.
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Ένας καταλύτης για τη δημόσια υγεία
Ο Haakon A. Ikonomou δείχνει πώς η υποχρεωτική ανταλλαγή πληθυσμών μεταξύ Τουρκίας και Ελλάδας λειτούργησε ως καταλύτης για την αναδιοργάνωση του ελληνικού τομέα δημόσιας υγείας από την Κοινωνία των Εθνών.
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Lausanne and the High Courts
Seda Örsten Esirgen on how Lausanne helped establish a new legal system in Türkiye.
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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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Postcard from İzmir
Andrew Patrick visits the İsmet İnönü Museum House in İzmir.
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A Pithy Question
Ben Gladstone on what oranges can tell us about how post-WW1 mandates were conceived.
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Museum Geographies in Nicosia
Madeline Thompson and Beth Kellaway explore the immersive displays and emotive language of Nicosia’s museums.
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Mustafa’s Journey
Felix Pluck, Joseph Milledge, and Tom Aspery investigate how asylum seekers negotiate borders in Cyprus.
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Sins of Commission
To understand the Allied Occupation of Istanbul, Fatma Eda Çelik argues, we need to interrogate two frequently used, yet rarely defined words: “high commissioner” and “high commission.
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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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Breaking Down Barriers
Emma Saville reports from Nicosia, where she and fellow geographers sought to find out why young Cypriots appear reluctant to engage in grassroots peace-building initiatives.
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Reflections from a Field-Course
Nick Megoran, Ingrid A. Medby, Craig Jones and Matt Benwell describe their innovative approach to teaching undergraduate students of political geography about Lausanne’s Cypriot legacy.
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