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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PODCAST – Episode 40: The Utopia of the Couch Party
Nermin Elsherif and Enno Maessen explore the nostalgic world of “al-zaman al-gamil”: an online fantasy that Egypt’s “dispossessed” middle-class calls home.
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Mapping Memory
In the absence of official or academic histories, Gönül Bozoğlu notes, the Greek Istanbuli diaspora finds ways to inhabit a lost city.
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Belgrad’dan Bakış
Emma Hatto Lozan’daki Yugoslav delegasyonunu bizlere tanıtıp, müzakereler esnasında Yunanlılarla olan ikircikli ilişkilerini anlatıyor.
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PODCAST – Episode 39: Corridors of Power
Nilay Özlü and Enno Maessen discuss the changing roles of Topkapı Palace, from Abdulaziz to the Allied Occupation.
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Across a Table, Across the Aegean
Jonathan Conlin on our teacher workshop, which brought Greek and Turkish high school history teachers together in Lausanne .
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PODCAST – Episode 38: The Toynbee Affair
Arie Dubnov and Jonathan Conlin discuss the founding father of “World History”.
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Tourists In Paradise
by Ulker Basak
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Diplomasinin “Mucize Kadını”
Ozan Özavcı, Lozan’daki tek kadın delege olan Bulgar Nadejda Stancioff’un hikayesini anlatıyor.
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PODCAST – Episode 37: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists
Mostafa Minawi and Ozan Ozavci discuss the stories of Sadik and Shafiq al-Mu’ayyad Azmzade, two İstanbullu imperialists from Syria, who experienced the loss of the very empire that defined them.
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Νο Πασαράν!
Many Greek veterans of the Spanish Civil War felt called to join the Communist cause in their own nation’s struggle against Metaxism. But as Ali Zahid shows, their homecoming was far from easy.
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Lozan’ı Anlamak
Lozan Antlaşması’nın yüzüncü yıl dönümünde, Ozan Özavcı ve Jonathan Conlin, 1923’ün Türkiye ve dünya tarihi için ne anlama geldiğini tartışıyorlar.
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The Treaty of Lausanne at 100
A century on, the debate over the Treaty of Lausanne shows no sign of resolution. Jonathan Conlin and Ozan Ozavci explore why it remains such a hot topic.
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PODCAST – Episode 36 (Part II): A Historical Curiosity
In the second part of their conversation, Edhem Eldem tells Enno Maessen that Ottoman historians need to get a life.
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PODCAST – Episode 36 (Part I): Rescuing Ottoman History
Edhem Eldem and Enno Maessen on why it isn’t always easy being a historian of Ottoman and Turkish history.
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