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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PODCAST – Episode 24: The Pearl of the Levant
Smyrna/İzmir was in ruins in September 1922. Philip Mansel explains to Ozan Ozavci how that unique entrepot changed from a Greek-cosmopolitan to a Turkish port town, and the devastating consequences of the Great Fire.
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Smyrna 1922: Waystation or Terminus?
Mark Levene makes the case for a paradigm shift in genocide studies.
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Celebrity Reporter, Cousin Clare
Julia Secklehner profiles a pioneer journalist who wasn’t afraid to become part of the story.
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PODCAST – Episode 23: Contesting Post-Post-Kemalism
Howard Eissenstat shares with Ozan Ozavci his concerns around the language of post-post-Kemalism, before a lively discussion on Turgut Özal, the 1990s, and whether this might be Recep Tayyib Erdoğan’s last year in power.
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Church and State
Theocharis Anagnostopoulos considers the competing visions of Smyrna’s future that divided the Greek community, in both triumph and catastrophe.
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PODCAST – Episode 22 (Part II): More than a Revival
Martin van Bruinessen explains to Ozan Ozavci how Kurdish political movements in Turkey took hold from the 1960s onward, evolving from far-leftist activism and violence to demands for inclusive democracy.
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PODCAST – Episode 22 (Part I): “They Take Books Seriously in Turkey”
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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The Hittite Delegation
The Treaty of Sèvres had seen the Powers grab their share of Anatolia’s ancient past. At Lausanne, Hélène Maloigne reveals, the new Republic staked an exclusive claim to Hittite antiquities as their “birthright.”
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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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