In the third of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Panikos Panayi and Giorgios Charalambous trace how Cypriots have made lives for themselves across the island’s global diaspora.
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PODCAST – Episode 75: The Shadow of the Partition
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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PODCAST – Episode 74: History and Memory of Partition
In the first of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Andrekos Varnava and Beyza Kiziltepe trace how Cyprus’s division continues to live in the memory.
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PODCAST – Episode 73: The Icy Gale of Death
Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.
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From Treaty to Tree: A Postcard from Nea Roda
In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.
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Plotting in a Time of Cholera
Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism.
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PODCAST – Episode 72: The Universe of the In-Between
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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PODCAST – Episode 69: Restoration Histories
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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Milk Kinship Between Empires
Salih Yasun on how unexpected and intimate ties connect Kavala to Alexandria via Görükle.
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Back to School
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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10 Questions for Artist and Writer
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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The Centenary and Beyond
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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Το Παρελθόν του Μέλλοντός μας
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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PODCAST – Episode 50: Revivals of Empire
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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PODCAST – Episode 49: Spectacular Sites
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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PODCAST – Episode 48: A River Runs Through It
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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Sophia’s Choice
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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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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Japan at Lausanne
Fifty years after their first contact, Japan established diplomatic relations with Turkey in 1924. Shohei Akagawa explains how peacemaking in the Near East helped Japan claim a seat at the top table.
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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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Classroom Classification
Burcu Kaleoğlu Uçaner on the lessons we can take from the civics textbooks of early republican Turkey.
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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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Who(se) Borders?
How does a scholar study a border they suddenly cannot cross? Oğuzhan İzmir invites fellow border scholars to be more open about how their perspective and prejudices shape their research.
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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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Reckoning With Loss
Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin report on our third conference, “The Lausanne Moment”, held last week in Thessaloniki.
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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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Across a Table, Across the Aegean
Jonathan Conlin on our teacher workshop, which brought Greek and Turkish high school history teachers together in Lausanne .
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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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