Many Greek veterans of the Spanish Civil War felt called to join the Communist cause in their own nation’s struggle against Metaxism. But as Ali Zahid shows, their homecoming was far from easy.
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The Treaty of Lausanne at 100
A century on, the debate over the Treaty of Lausanne shows no sign of resolution. Jonathan Conlin and Ozan Ozavci explore why it remains such a hot topic.
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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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Occupied City
Daniel Joseph MacArthur Seal and Gizem Tongo introduce their new exhibition at the Istanbul Research Institute.
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The Past of Our Future
Nergis Canefe shares some of the insights gained over three decades of teacher training initiatives addressing minority communities in Greece and Turkey.
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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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Equally Unhappy?
Our Athens correspondent Jonathan Conlin reports on “Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” a major centenary conference on Lausanne held in Athens, 12-13 June 2023.
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A Bitter Harvest
Kaleb Herman Adney shows how post-Ottoman Macedonia’s tobacco-centred economic infrastructure struggled to accommodate the transfer of Muslims’ movable property during the population exchange.
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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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Η Συνθήκη της Λωζάνης στα 100
Έναν αιώνα μετά, η συζήτηση για τη Συνθήκη της Λωζάνης δεν δείχνει κανένα σημάδι επίλυσης. Ο Jonathan Conlin και ο Ozan Ozavci διερευνούν γιατί παραμένει ένα τόσο καυτό θέμα.
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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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Τριάντα χρόνια ελπίδας
Ali Okumuş investigates an unexpected meeting at the Çankaya Mansion in 1925, and the hopes one Unionist saw realized in Kemal Atatürk.
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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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Toward the Promethean Mountain
Charalampos Gappas explores the conflicting demographic, military and humanitarian agendas that swirled around a 1919 mission to the Greek communities of the Caucasus organized by Greece.
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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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Thirty Years of Hope
Ali Okumuş investigates an unexpected meeting at the Çankaya Mansion in 1925, and the hopes one Unionist saw realized in Kemal Atatürk.
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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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Saving Consul Ryan
Jonathan Conlin delves into the personal archive of a renowned (if not notorious) Anglo-Irish consul, who watched a familiar world collapse in the years around Lausanne.
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The Lausanne Moment 100 Years On. Interdisciplinary Interventions
by The Lausanne Project
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Objects in Motion
Eleni Kyramargiou on a pioneering project addressing the material culture of refugees and the multiple layers of memory.
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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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Greco-Turkish War as Collective Trauma
Yaprak Gürsoy explains how the collective trauma of war and conflict between Greece and Turkey still permeates their perceptions of each other, and themselves.
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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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Full Circle
Salih Yasun shares the story of how he retraced his family’s pre-Lausanne origins to a Greek-Speaking Muslim Community in Northern Greece.
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Serbs, Croats, Slovenes…and Muslims?
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular considers how the newly-established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes set about forcibly cleansing itself of its Muslim population, ruthlessly sent “back” to Anatolia – yet another example of how Lausanne normalized population exchanges as a “solution” to the “minority problem.”
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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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You say “muhacir” and I say “mübadil”
To understand the family narratives of the displaced in Turkey, Emre Erol explains, you have to pick your words carefully.
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Business As Usual?
Andrew Patrick on Jesse Jackson, the US consul in WWI Aleppo who found himself on the front line between humanitarian rescue and American capital.
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Προς το Βουνό του Προμηθέα
Ο Χαράλαμπος Γάππας διερευνά τις αντικρουόμενες δημογραφικές, στρατιωτικές και ανθρωπιστικές ατζέντες που στροβιλίστηκαν γύρω από μια αποστολή του 1919 στις ελληνικές κοινότητες του Καυκάσου που οργάνωσε η Ελλάδα.
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