The Lausanne Project (TLP)
@lausanneproject.bsky.social
Scholars with a shared interest in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its legacies for peace-making in 2023 and beyond, from Turkey and Greece to the wider world.
Just in time for Lausanne Day, Çiğdem Oğuz talks to Jonathan Conlin about passports, "protection" and contested nationalities - "Ottoman Paperscapes" that survive to this day. thelausanneproject.com/2026/07/24/p...
PODCAST – Episode 84: Grandfather Clauses
Extending citizenship to marginal communities is one way states grab power and influence, as well as subjects, away from rival powers. But shopping among rival “protectors” gives indivi…
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What happened when Islamic judges steeped in divine law found themselves answerable to Habsburg officials who had never opened a Quran? Ninja Bumann @jlugiessen.bsky.social and @juliasecklehner.bsky.social on law and marriage in Habsburg-occupied Bosnia. thelausanneproject.com/2026/05/29/p...
PODCAST – Episode 83: Divorce Court
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 Habsbur…
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"If our Turkish neighbours return and ask about their ancestors’ remains, hand over the bones under the walnut tree. One day, our neighbours will come back." Then they did. What happened next is one of the most moving stories we've had the privilege to share. thelausanneproject.com/2026/04/30/p...
PODCAST – Episode 82: Under The Walnut Tree
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 initiati…
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@ozanozavci1.bsky.social 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. thelausanneproject.com/2026/04/17/d...
Drops of Oil
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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And here's a link to Adnen's book, discussed in today's podcast: www.editions-ulb.be/fr/book/?GCO...
Quand la diplomatie fait la ville - EUB
Adnen el Ghali - Cet ouvrage est une invitation à découvrir le fonctionnement et l'essor de la triade consulaire composée des consuls, des établissements consulaires et de leurs territoires d’inscript...
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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. thelausanneproject.com/2026/03/27/p...
PODCAST – Episode 81: Through the Streets of Tunis
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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How can teachers address sensitive historical topics in the classroom? Today in Utrecht TLP is exploring this question, at our fifth workshop for Greek and Turkish history teachers. thelausanneproject.com/2026/03/23/t...
The Lausanne Project – Teacher’s Workshop
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…
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Kemal Deniz Karabacak @unibogazici.bsky.social on how he encountered traces of Greek-speaking Muslim exchangees in his own backyard of Çatalca.https://thelausanneproject.com/2026/03/13/arrivals-and-survivals/
Arrivals and Survivals
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 @juliasecklehner.bsky.social through "Laugh first, think later!," her exhibition of caricatures @uniheidelberg.bsky.social from the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. thelausanneproject.com/2026/03/06/p...
PODCAST – Episode 80: Subjects of Ridicule
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 exhibiti…
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Sinem Arslan shares her reflections on last week's conference, held @jlugiessen.bsky.social .social on the legacies of the Lausanne population exchange. thelausanneproject.com/2026/02/20/r...
Reflections From Two Shores: A Conference Report
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 @juliasecklehner.bsky.social about how the Ottomans and Allied powers engaged with and weaponized antiquities during the Great War. @mesaglobalacademy.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social thelausanneproject.com/2026/02/07/p...
PODCAST – Episode 79: Heritage on the Frontline
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 Gre…
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In the last of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Harry Tzimitras, @ahmetsozen.bsky.social Ipek Borman and Ibrahim Ince confront Cyprus’s present impasse thelausanneproject.com/2026/01/09/p...
PODCAST – Episode 78: The Future of a Divided Island
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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"It's impossible to be non-politicised in Cyprus after 1955. But once you leave and move to London, it’s television media, letters to your family back home…you know what’s going on. It’s traumatizing you." thelausanneproject.com/2025/12/12/p...
PODCAST – Episode 76: The Cypriot Diaspora
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…
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In the second of a special series, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus. thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/28/p...
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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Today we launch a special series of podcasts about Cyprus, hosted by Alexandria Innes @andri-i.bsky.social and TLP convenor Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/14/p...
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 memor…
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Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt. thelausanneproject.com/2025/10/24/p...
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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Last night in Heidelberg @juliasecklehner.bsky.social and Gökce Erverdi introduced our graphic novel, answering the question "Can caricature teach history"? This event coincided with the close of a special exhibition on caricature in the Near East, hosted by the University Museum Heidelberg.
In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees thelausanneproject.com/2025/10/10/f...
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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Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism (with handy advice for anyone new to producing visualisations). thelausanneproject.com/2025/09/26/p...
Plotting in a Time of Cholera
Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism.
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Our friends at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen are hosting a conference on Memory, Identity and Trauma after the 1923 Lausanne Exchange. CFP (deadline 1 November) here www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
The Shadow of the Aegean
Join us for "The Shadow of the Aegean: Memory, Identity and Trauma—Aftermath of the Population Exchange (1923) between Greece and Turkey," February 12–14, 2026, at JLU Gießen. This interdisciplinary c...
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William Stroebel on the stories Lausanne tried to silence, that combined scripts and vocabularies in ways that challenged philologists’ obsession with linguistic purity and authorial intent @princetonupress.bsky.social etonupress.bsky.social thelausanneproject.com/2025/09/12/p...
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 pu…
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Congratulations to the team @eliamep.bsky.social on the appearance of the book of their June 2023 conference. It includes chapters by several TLP friends, including Konstantinos Tsitselikis and Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, as well as Jon on (surprise!) oil.
"How does the personal relate to the political? Every time Mishaqa changes his world view, he doesn't just surrender, but says we need to use our reason to understand why this is happening." For more from Peter Hill on Mikha’il Mishaqa, have a listen! thelausanneproject.com/2025/08/15/p...
PODCAST – Episode 70: Prophet of Reason
Peter Hill talks to Charles Ough about Dr Mikha’il Mishaqa, the Mount Lebanon-born polymath and US Vice Consul in Damascus whose long life encompassed some of the most important events of the tumul…
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"In a male-dominated environment, in 1950s Turkey, it might seem surprising that a woman architect led the body responsible for historic monuments. Being a preservationist today still requires strong nerves." @barisaltan.bsky.social introduces Cahide Temer: thelausanneproject.com/2025/07/22/p...
PODCAST – Episode 70: Restoration Histories
Bariş Altan introduces Julia Secklehner to Cahide Temer, a pioneer in architectural restoration and one of the first women architects in Turkey. Recently rescued, her archive fills a gap in the sto…
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@salihyasun.bsky.social on a surprising tale of intimate kinship ties, enduring yet overlooked: thelausanneproject.com/2025/07/04/m...
Milk Kinship Between Empires
Salih Yasun on how unexpected and intimate ties connect Kavala to Alexandria via Görükle.
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"Zsa-Zsa Gulbenkian"? Jon's biography of Gulbenkian was name-checked by Wes Anderson, as the inspiration for his new film, "The Phoenician Scheme." www.mundoamerica.com/entertainment/2025/05/19/682ade2de85ece90708b45a2.html
Wes Anderson: "cinema progresses thanks to darkness, to the photogenic power of evil"
The Phoenician Scheme is a film by Wes Anderson (Houston, 1969). And it is so from the moment the bus (yes, bus) with the entire Andersonian troupe inside (from newcomers to the...
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Jon's article on how Big Oil shaped Lausanne is now out, open access. It challenges traditional state-centred accounts of oil diplomacy, looking at the role of firms we know today as BP and ExxonMobil, as well as of Deutsche Bank and other financial interests www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Fouled by Oil’? Oil Diplomacy and the Lausanne Conference, 1914–1928
The centenary of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty has seen historians challenge the familiar view of this re-settlement of the defeated Ottoman Empire as an enduring success, drawing attention to the ways ...
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Can Eyüp Çekiç revisits liberal internationalist David Davies’ 1919 proposal to establish the League of Nations in Constantinople, making that city the seat of a truly international order – of a kind the League failed to establish in Geneva. thelausanneproject.com/2025/06/06/p...
PODCAST – Episode 67: Freehold of the World
Can Eyüp Çekiç and Enno Maessen revisit liberal internationalist David Davies’ 1919 proposal to establish the League of Nations in Constantinople, making that city the seat of a truly interna…
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Hadwig Kraeutler on an overlooked 1940 biography that presented the sultan as a key to past, present and future. thelausanneproject.com/2025/05/23/a...
Alma’s Abdülhamid
Hadwig Kraeutler on an overlooked 1940 biography that presented the sultan as a key to past, present and future.
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"Something that struck home with the students was the rise of the security state. It’s not something that begins with the Nazis, you need to look further back." We spoke to UEA's Sam Foster about his new approach to teaching the Great War. thelausanneproject.com/2025/05/09/p...
PODCAST – Episode 66: Teaching the Greater War
Jonathan Conlin invites Samuel Foster to explain the rationale behind his new module on “Europe in the Era of the Great War” and report on how students have engaged with imagology and u…
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