In an interview recorded at the 2024 BDFIL festival Gökce Erverdi and Julia Secklehner discuss the making and meaning of TLP’s first graphic novel, De la lumière à l’Ombre.
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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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Το δωμάτιο της διπλανής πόρτας: Τα προσωπικά αρχεία των Bayar και Okyar
«Μαγεύτηκα από την ποικιλομορφία και τον πλούτο του περιεχομένου των εγγράφων.»
Ο Οζάν Οζαβτσί αναλογίζεται τη συνάντηση με τους απογόνους σημαντικών προσωπικοτήτων της πρώιμης Ρεπουμπλικανικής Τουρκίας και τα ανεκτίμητα ιδιωτικά έγγραφα που έχουν διατηρήσει αυτές οι οικογένειες.
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Κωφή Πρόταση
Η Fidan Mirhanoğlu σχετικά με το πώς οι ελπίδες για πετρέλαιο οδήγησαν τους αντιπροσώπους στη Λωζάνη να αγνοήσουν τις κουρδικές αξιώσεις για αυτοδιάθεση.
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From Ouchy to Auschwitz?
Jonathan Conlin reviews Hans-Lukas Kieser’s centenary monograph, which radically challenges views of Lausanne as a “success”.
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The Centenary and Beyond
Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin look back over what TLP has done in Lausanne’s centenary year, and forward to 2025 and beyond
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Το Παρελθόν του Μέλλοντός μας
H Nergis Canefe μοιράζεται μερικές από τις γνώσεις που αποκτήθηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια τριών δεκαετιών πρωτοβουλιών κατάρτισης εκπαιδευτικών που απευθύνονται σε μειονοτικές κοινότητες στην Ελλάδα και την Τουρκία.
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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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A Peace of Their Mind?
Nathan Young tells a tale of two Lausanne centennial celebrations: one in Diyarbakır, the other in Ankara.
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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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Η υπόθεση Lotus
Ο Selman Aksünger αφηγείται μια ιστορία δύο πλοίων που δεν έβγαλαν τη νύχτα.
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Sophia’s Choice
Jonathan Conlin shares a recent find from the National Archives in Kew: a 1919 memo in which Arnold Toynbee weighs in on the question of whether to “reconvert” the Hagia Sophia into a place of Christian worship.
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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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Japan at Lausanne
Fifty years after their first contact, Japan established diplomatic relations with Turkey in 1924. Shohei Akagawa explains how peacemaking in the Near East helped Japan claim a seat at the top table.
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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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Classroom Classification
Burcu Kaleoğlu Uçaner on the lessons we can take from the civics textbooks of early republican Turkey.
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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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Who(se) Borders?
How does a scholar study a border they suddenly cannot cross? Oğuzhan İzmir invites fellow border scholars to be more open about how their perspective and prejudices shape their research.
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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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Reckoning With Loss
Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin report on our third conference, “The Lausanne Moment”, held last week in Thessaloniki.
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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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Postcard from the Palazzo
Mert Pekdoğdu reports on the Associazione Italia-Turchia’s conference “Turkey-Italy Relations in the Aftermath of the First World War (1918-1923)”.
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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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Kutsal Egoizm
Andrei Tirtan Arap liderlerin Lozan’da Türkiye’den beklentileri ve yıkılan umutlarından çıkardıkları dersleri ele alıyor.
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Deaf Sentence
Fidan Mirhanoğlu on how hopes of oil led delegates at Lausanne to ignore Kurdish claims to self-determination.
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Air Traffic Control
Sezer Çıtır explores early Republican Turkey’s efforts to expand civil aviation without loss of sovereignty or prestige.
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Ashes and Gold
by Maxime Gauin
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Uncle Arthur and the Near East
Patrick Boyle considers a key text in the emergence of a British Labour Party foreign policy, published by Arthur Henderson a century ago.
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The Lausanne Project 