Martin van Bruinessen explains to Ozan Ozavci how travels around the Middle East in the 1970s led him to devote his career to tracing the hopes and disappointments faced by the Kurds.
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PODCAST – Episode 21: La Reine de l’Interview
Julia Secklehner talks to Jamie Walters about her plans to bring the irrepressible American reporter Clare Sheridan back to life, and back to the streets of Lausanne.
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PODCAST – Episode 20: Biography Goes Global
Jonathan Conlin talks agency, emplotment and subjectivity with Laura Almagor and Haakon Ikonomou, editors of a new volume addressing global biography.
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PODCAST – Episode 19 (Part II): The Safer Bet?
In the second half of their conversation Djene Rhys Bajalan and Ozan Ozavci consider the Kurds’ relationship with Russia and Britain, the Kurdish perception of Lausanne, and the 1925 Sheikh Said rebellion.
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PODCAST – Episode 19 (Part I): What did the Kurds want?
Djene Rhys Bajalan explains to Ozan Ozavci why we need to challenge traditional accounts of Kurdish political (in)activity around the Paris Peace Conference.
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PODCAST – Episode 18: If those walls could talk…
…what would the paintings say? Laura Popoviciu and Andrew Parratt explain to Jonathan Conlin how they curated the recent rehang of the UK Embassy in Ankara.
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PODCAST – Episode 17: Arab Exclusion at Lausanne
Elizabeth F. Thompson and Ozan Ozavci discuss Arab agency and exclusion at Lausanne, and its implications for the history of the wider Arab world, past and present.
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PODCAST – Episode 16: The Epitome of Loss
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu and Ozan Ozavci discuss the Armenian mission to Lausanne in 1922-3, the (performative) support they received from the Allied Powers and the Turkish response to plans for an autonomous Armenian Home.
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PODCAST – Episode 15: Dowry of the State
Ellinor Morack explains to Jonathan Conlin how she unpicked the tangled process of expropriation and re-allocation by which early Republican Turkey sought to create a “national economy”.
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PODCAST – Episode 14: Contesting Post-Kemalism
Ozan Ozavci invites İlker Aytürk to develop his critical response to Erik-Jan Zürcher’s arguments in last month’s TLP podcast.
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PODCAST – Episode 13: Occupational History
Jonathan Conlin talks to Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal about Britain’s short-lived post-WWI empire in the eastern Mediterranean.
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PODCAST – Episode 12 (Part II): The Monopoly of Two Cultures
Erik-Jan Zürcher and Ozan Ozavci consider the two faces of Turkish historiography, as well as the tendency of Turkey’s political culture to relapse into authoritarianism after each liberal democratic opening.
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PODCAST – Episode 12 (Part I): ‘A Realistic Solution’
Erik-Jan Zürcher talks to Ozan Ozavci about the treaties of Sèvres, Lausanne and their legacy in different official histories of Turkey.
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PODCAST – Episode 11: The Many Lives of Muhalefet
Ozan Ozavci talks to Christine Philliou about her new book “Turkey: A Past Against History” and the many lives of muhalefet (opposition) from the late Ottoman Empire to today.
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PODCAST – Episode 10: The Roads to Lausanne
Jay Winter discusses his forthcoming landmark study of Lausanne with Jonathan Conlin.
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PODCAST – Episode 9: Gaziantep’s Forgotten Past
Ümit Kurt explains to Jonathan Conlin how an innocent question asked in his local cafe launched him on a journey into Gaziantep’s past, uncovering the genocidal violence that gave birth to a new Muslim bourgeoisie.
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PODCAST – Episode 8: Eternal Dawn
Ryan Gingeras speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his 2019 book Eternal Dawn and the Kemalist mythos in Turkey.
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PODCAST – Episode 7: The Other Republic
Ozan Ozavci talks to James Ryan about early Republican political thought and loyal opposition in Turkey: liberals and leftists from Nazım Hikmet to Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. What made these figures the loyal opponents of the republic? And what did Lausanne mean to them?
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PODCAST – Episode 6: Fueling Speculation
Popular conspiracy theories surrounding the 2023 Lausanne centenary are steeped in oil. Jonathan Conlin invited Zeynep Oguz to discuss how this “absent presence” is invoked in debates surrounding irredentism and national sovereignty in Erdogan’s Turkey.
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PODCAST – Episode 5: The First Clash
Seventy years before Samuel Huntington there was Basil Mathews. Jonathan Conlin and historian Todd Thompson revisit a forgotten text that launched “the clash of civilizations”.
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PODCAST – Episode 3: When is a tree also a registered charity?
Ozan Ozavci asks Gingko’s founder Barbara Schwepcke about the inspiration and vision behind the foundation, and how its support for TLP fits into its broader agenda.
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PODCAST – Episode 4: Lifting the Curse of Lausanne?
What will 2023 mean for today’s Turkey? Jonathan Conlin in conversation with historian Nick Danforth.
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PODCAST – Episode 2: Hemingway at Lausanne
“They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” James Gifford talks to Jonathan Conlin about Hemingway’s poetic response to the Lausanne conference, winter sports, and a lost suitcase.
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PODCAST – Episode 1: Crude History?
In this podcast Andrew Patrick and Jonathan Conlin discuss the state of play in historical writing about oil.
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