Enno Maessen takes Jonathan Conlin on a tour of Beyoğlus past, present and future, from the Deutsche Schule to Emek Sineması.
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Forum
The Lausanne Moment 100 Years On. Interdisciplinary Interventions
by The Lausanne Project
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Objects in Motion
Eleni Kyramargiou on a pioneering project addressing the material culture of refugees and the multiple layers of memory.
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Türk Hasta
Zenonas Tziarras, Türk dış politikasındaki Lozan sendromunun belirtileri üzerine yazdı.
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PODCAST – Episode 27: The Civilisationist Present
Aslı Iğsız and Jonathan Conlin discuss how a concept of civilisation has been represented and exploited, from the age of Ismet and Toynbee to that of Erdoğan, Samuel Huntington and Krishan Kumar.
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Greco-Turkish War as Collective Trauma
Yaprak Gürsoy explains how the collective trauma of war and conflict between Greece and Turkey still permeates their perceptions of each other, and themselves.
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PODCAST – Episode 26: The Missing Muhtar
Isaac Hand talks to Jonathan Conlin about his current research into inter-war Turkish urbanism, particularly the contested role of the muhtar.
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Full Circle
Salih Yasun shares the story of how he retraced his family’s pre-Lausanne origins to a Greek-Speaking Muslim Community in Northern Greece.
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Serbs, Croats, Slovenes…and Muslims?
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular considers how the newly-established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes set about forcibly cleansing itself of its Muslim population, ruthlessly sent “back” to Anatolia – yet another example of how Lausanne normalized population exchanges as a “solution” to the “minority problem.”
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Ένας Monsieur Cavid για εσάς, κύριε Gulbenkian
Η επανασύνδεση με τους προπολεμικούς φίλους στη Λωζάνη δεν ήταν τόσο απλή όσο φαίνεται.Ο Jonathan Conlin περιγράφει ένα περίπλοκο επεισόδιο.
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PODCAST – Episode 25: Dreamer and Realist
Mari Firkatian tells Ozan Ozavci how she discovered the lost archives of the Stancioff family, uncovering the secrets of Nadejda Stancioff, the only woman diplomat at Lausanne.
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You say “muhacir” and I say “mübadil”
To understand the family narratives of the displaced in Turkey, Emre Erol explains, you have to pick your words carefully.
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Business As Usual?
Andrew Patrick on Jesse Jackson, the US consul in WWI Aleppo who found himself on the front line between humanitarian rescue and American capital.
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Προς το Βουνό του Προμηθέα
Ο Χαράλαμπος Γάππας διερευνά τις αντικρουόμενες δημογραφικές, στρατιωτικές και ανθρωπιστικές ατζέντες που στροβιλίστηκαν γύρω από μια αποστολή του 1919 στις ελληνικές κοινότητες του Καυκάσου που οργάνωσε η Ελλάδα.
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Opportunity Knocks
Arnaud Meloro, Cristiano Moreira Da Silva and Adrien Rama on how a typsetters’ strike launched the career of a Lausannois artistic talent.
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Do they know it’s Christmas?
As Christelle Hamouti, Stefan Roth Casetti, Yannick Déchosal and Oscar Della Casa show, the Swiss policeman’s lot was not a happy one.
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PODCAST – Episode 24: The Pearl of the Levant
Smyrna/İzmir was in ruins in September 1922. Philip Mansel explains to Ozan Ozavci how that unique entrepot changed from a Greek-cosmopolitan to a Turkish port town, and the devastating consequences of the Great Fire.
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Smyrna 1922: Waystation or Terminus?
Mark Levene makes the case for a paradigm shift in genocide studies.
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Celebrity Reporter, Cousin Clare
Julia Secklehner profiles a pioneer journalist who wasn’t afraid to become part of the story.
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PODCAST – Episode 23: Contesting Post-Post-Kemalism
Church and State
Theocharis Anagnostopoulos considers the competing visions of Smyrna’s future that divided the Greek community, in both triumph and catastrophe.
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PODCAST – Episode 22 (Part II): More than a Revival
PODCAST – Episode 22 (Part I): “They Take Books Seriously in Turkey”
Refugee Communism
Kostis Karpozilos on how a band of thirty workers from Constantinople reinvented Greek communism and made “the Refugee from the East” into an international bogey.
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PODCAST – Episode 21: La Reine de l’Interview
Syrian Merchants in Madeira
Stacy D. Fahrenthold, unpicks the threads by which Syrian entrepreneurs sewed up Madeira’s famed lace and linen export trade.
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PODCAST – Episode 20: Biography Goes Global
The Hittite Delegation
The Treaty of Sèvres had seen the Powers grab their share of Anatolia’s ancient past. At Lausanne, Hélène Maloigne reveals, the new Republic staked an exclusive claim to Hittite antiquities as their “birthright.”
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PODCAST – Episode 19 (Part II): The Safer Bet?
The Lausanne Project 