What happened when Islamic judges (qadis) steeped in divine law found themselves answerable to Habsburg officials who had never opened a Quran? Ninja Bumann and Julia Secklehner discuss how Habsburg-occupied Bosnia dealt with sensitive matters of marriage and divorce.
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Ali Al Tuma tells the story of the European diplomatic exodus from Tetuan (Morocco), and the subsequent growth of Tangier as the region’s diplomatic capital.
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Lausanne displaced the living, and it desecrated the dead that exchanged communities left behind. Jonathan Conlin talks to Leonidas Karakatsanis and Ülker Başak Yesilkaya about grass-roots initiatives that are reversing this necroviolence.
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Ozan Ozavci traces how Royal Dutch Shell and the young Turkish republic courted each other over Anatolia’s petroleum, only for both to get cold feet and walk away.
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Adnen El Ghali talks to Giorgio Ennas about his recently published book Quand la diplomatie fait la ville, which brings together the consular and architectural histories of Tunis.
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The Lausanne Project will host a Teachers’ Workshop on 26–27 March 2026 in Utrecht, bringing together Greek and Turkish teachers and Education Experts. The workshop is organised with the support of the Dynamics of Youth strategic theme’s YELS programme. How can teachers address sensitive historical topics in the classroom? How can we change not just…
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Kemal Deniz Karabacak on how he encountered traces of Greek-speaking Muslim exchangees in his own backyard of Çatalca.
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Can satire build bridges between communities, as well as between past and present? Anna Kollatz talks Julia Secklehner through Erst lachen, dann denken!/Laugh first, think later!, a recent exhibition of caricatures from the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, on display in Heidelberg.
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Sinem Arslan shares her reflections on last week’s conference, held at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, on the legacies of the Lausanne population exchange.
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When the shooting starts, does the archaeology stop? Ceren Abi talks to Julia Secklehner about how the Ottomans and Allied powers engaged with and occasionally weaponized antiquities during the Great War.
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In the last of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Harry Tzimitras, Ahmet Sözen, Ipek Borman and Ibrahim Ince confront Cyprus’s present impasse.
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In the fourth of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Ibrahim Ince and Ezgican Özdemir explore how the material world records Cyprus’s division.
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In the second of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.
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Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.
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In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.
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Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism.
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William Stroebel introduces Jonathan Conlin to the stories Lausanne tried to silence, that combined scripts and vocabularies in ways that challenged philologists’ obsession with linguistic purity and authorial intent.
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Bariş Altan introduces Julia Secklehner to Cahide Tamer, a pioneer in architectural restoration and one of the first women architects in Turkey. Recently rescued, her archive fills a gap in the story of Istanbul’s historic landmarks, while her example of courage gives inspiration to today’s preservationists.
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Salih Yasun on how unexpected and intimate ties connect Kavala to Alexandria via Görükle.
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Long before the Turkish State Opera opened in 1949, Halide Edip Adıvar was mong those imagining what Turkish opera might sound like. In this conversation Jonathan Conlin asks Ici Vanwesenbeeck to explain how this remarkable polymath conceived of an opera that was neither “alla franca” nor “alla turca”.
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Georgios Giannakopoulos returns to his alma mater in Athens, to help lead a workshop in which local high school students debated what Lausanne meant to them.
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In an interview recorded at the 2024 BDFIL festival Gökce Erverdi and Julia Secklehner discuss the making and meaning of TLP’s first graphic novel, De la lumière à l’Ombre.
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Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin look back over what TLP has done in Lausanne’s centenary year, and forward to 2025 and beyond
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H Nergis Canefe μοιράζεται μερικές από τις γνώσεις που αποκτήθηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια τριών δεκαετιών πρωτοβουλιών κατάρτισης εκπαιδευτικών που απευθύνονται σε μειονοτικές κοινότητες στην Ελλάδα και την Τουρκία.
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Jeremy F. Walton and Julia Secklehner discuss the ERC-project Revenant: Revivals Of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation, which grapples with the complex, overlapping post-imperial memories and legacies of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Romanov Empires.
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Hélène Maloigne and Julia Secklehner explore the role of archaeology in nation-building after the First World War and the discipline’s popularization in the early twentieth century.
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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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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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Jonathan Conlin shares a recent find from the National Archives in Kew: a 1919 memo in which Arnold Toynbee weighs in on the question of whether to “reconvert” the Hagia Sophia into a place of Christian worship.
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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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