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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PODCAST – Episode 38: The Toynbee Affair
Arie Dubnov and Jonathan Conlin discuss the founding father of “World History”.
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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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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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PODCAST – Episode 35: The Ottoman Dream
Mehdi Sajid tells Ozan Ozavci the story of Shakib Arslan, a member of the Syrian-Palestinian delegation at Lausanne who sought to keep the Ottoman dream alive.
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PODCAST – Episode 34: Karagöz/Karagiozis
The artist Spyros Aggelopoulos talks to Julia Secklehner about the importance of the folk hero Karagiozis in his work.
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PODCAST – Episode 33: A Capitalist Peace?
Laura Robson explains to Ozan Ozavci how international refugee policies of the early 1920s put the “enterprise” in “humanitarian enterprise.”
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PODCAST – Episode 32: Crisis Thinking
Olga Lafazani uses the contrasts between 1922-4 and 2015 to ask hard questions about whose interests are behind the conceptualization and management of “refugee crises”.
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PODCAST – Episode 31: Peace in Their Time
Stefan Slater and David Macfadyen talk to Julia Secklehner about the how they are reviving interest in Aloïs Derso and Emery Kelèn, whose career as caricaturists to the League and United Nations was launched by a chance meeting at Lausanne.
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PODCAST – Episode 30: Peace Soup Making
Ilkim Büke Okyar and Konstantinos Travlos talk to Julia Secklehner about Greek and Turkish caricatures, a neglected resource for historians of identity and conflict in the decades around the Great War.
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PODCAST – Episode 29: Tragi-Comics
Kristina Gedgaudaite talks to Julia Secklehner about her research on cultural memory, migration, and graphic novels in contemporary Greek culture.
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PODCAST – Episode 28: Invisible Cities
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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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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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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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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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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PODCAST – Episode 23: Contesting Post-Post-Kemalism
PODCAST – Episode 22 (Part II): More than a Revival
PODCAST – Episode 22 (Part I): “They Take Books Seriously in Turkey”
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