Convenors

Ozan Ozavci

Dr. Ozan Ozavci is Associate Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University. Following the completion of his ERC-funded monograph titled Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021) and his latest book The Invention of the Eastern Question, he’s currently working on his fourth monograph provisionally titled The Great Game of Pandemics as Principal Investigator of an ERC Consolidator Grant-funded project on Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the MENA region. This project has opened a new area of research and collaborative activity for TLP.

Julia Secklehner

Dr. Julia Secklehner is a historian of modern art and visual culture. She is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Constructor University, Bremen, and collaborates on the project “Beyond the Village. Folk Cultures as Agents of Modernity, 1918-1945” at Masaryk University in Brno. Her recent book Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge, 2025) explores the importance of regionalism and rural culture in Austrian modernism. In addition to contributing a chapter on the Hungarian artists Derso and Kelèn to the Project’s edited volume, Julia has coordinated the production of our graphic novel and advised the Lausanne History Museum on their centenary exhibition. She is currently developing a children’s book about Lausanne, set in the Palais de Rumine.

Angelos Palikidis

Angelos Palikidis is Associate Professor of History Didactics at the Department of History & Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he also serves as Director of the Laboratory of Technology, Research & Applications in Education. He sits on the board of the International Society of History Didactics and is an expert in history education at the Council of Europe. His research focuses on history curricula and textbooks, the teaching of controversial issues in post-conflict societies and the relationship between history education and democratic culture, as well as between public and local history. His books include Art and Historical Consciousness in 19th-Century Greece. Image, History, Education. As well as leading our teacher workshops in Lausanne itself, Angelos recently completed a Teacher’s Guide to Lausanne, that TLP aims to publish in Greek and Turkish, in collaboration with our partners AHEG and Tarih Vakfi.

Jonathan Conlin

Jonathan Conlin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. A historian of Britain by training, he became interested in late Ottoman/Middle East history as Principal Investigator of the Gulbenkian Biography Project (2012-7). The resulting biography, Mr Five Per Cent: the Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, The World’s Richest Man (Profile, 2019) has been translated into five languages and won the 2020 BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Jon has also published a suite of articles on Ottoman loans, naval financing and oil diplomacy. He is collaborating with Julia Secklehner on Emma and the Messy Museum, a children’s book about Lausanne, a follow-up to the graphic novel they wrote together with Ozan Ozavci. Together with Georgios Giannakopoulos he is co-editing a volume on Arnold Toynbee, historian, think tanker and pundit.

Georgios Giannakopoulos

Dr. Georgios (Yorgos) Giannakopoulos lectures in modern history at City University of London and is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. His research focuses on the international and intellectual history of Britain and Southeastern Europe. He also runs the Global 1922 project – a project that aims to place the Greek-Turkish entanglements in Anatolia in the wider context of imperial transitions across Europe and the Middle East in the 1920s. Alongside Alexandria Innes, he convened the 2024 TLP conference about the Cyprus Question, and hosted the resulting podcast series. Together with Jonathan Conlin, he is organizing an international workshop and volume dedicated to Arnold J. Toynbee.

Enno Maessen

Dr Enno Maessen is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University. His recent book Representing Modern Istanbul, published with I.B. Tauris (2022), discusses the urban history of Istanbul and Beyoğlu through the lens of cultural representation and (trans)national entanglements and is currently being translated to Turkish. His research interests cover the fields of urban history, modern Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean region, social movements and the politics of representation in the second half of the twentieth century. Enno is coordinator of the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries (TSN), and has hosted some of TLP’s most popular podcast episodes.

Cyprus Project Editor

Dr Alexandria Innes is Reader in International Politics at City St George’s University of London and Director of the Participatory Action Research Group in Migration and Border Violence. She has published two monographs and over twenty articles in international migration and critical security studies. She is CI on the VISION Consortium Violence, Health and Society. She convened the 2024 TLP conference Partitioning for Peace, and co-hosted the resulting podcast series.