Ozan Ozavci
@ozanozavci1.bsky.social
Historian of security, empires, diplomacy and MENA | Co-convenor of the Lausanne Project | Author of Dangerous Gifts, Oxford 2021 |
https://www.uu.nl/staff/HOOzavci
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https://fighting-pandemics.sites.uu.nl
https://www.uu.nl/staff/HOOzavci
https://thelausanneproject.com
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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.
thelausanneproject.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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...
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"Witnessing students grapple with Middle East politics and challenge assumptions has been truly inspiring and rewarding for me." Barış Çelik explains how he used reflective journals and creative activities at Sheffield. thelausanneproject.com/2025/04/25/t...
Teaching (While Deconstructing)
Bariş Çelik takes stock of his new undergraduate module on “The Making of the Modern Middle East”, which seeks to de-essentialise the region in students’ minds
thelausanneproject.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"Witnessing students grapple with Middle East politics and challenge assumptions has been truly inspiring and rewarding for me." Barış Çelik explains how he used reflective journals and creative activities at Sheffield. thelausanneproject.com/2025/04/25/t...
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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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May 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"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...
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From high art to alaminüt: we asked Özge Baykan Calafato to talk us through photography's role in developing modern Turkish citizenship.
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PODCAST – Episode 66: Developing the Nation
Özge Baykan Calafato introduces Julia Secklehner and Enno Maessen to her work exploring the role of photography in developing modern Turkish citizenship.
thelausanneproject.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
From high art to alaminüt: we asked Özge Baykan Calafato to talk us through photography's role in developing modern Turkish citizenship.
thelausanneproject.com/2025/04/04/p...
thelausanneproject.com/2025/04/04/p...
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Great book talk on Empire of Refugees by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky yesterday in Utrecht! Insightful discussion and an outstanding Q&A. Thanks to The Lausanne Project and Turkey Studies Network for organizing! @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @ozanozavci1.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Great book talk on Empire of Refugees by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky yesterday in Utrecht! Insightful discussion and an outstanding Q&A. Thanks to The Lausanne Project and Turkey Studies Network for organizing! @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @ozanozavci1.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social
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Very excited to talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) this Wed, Mar 12. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in the Netherlands.
Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!
Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!
March 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Very excited to talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) this Wed, Mar 12. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in the Netherlands.
Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!
Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!
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📣 In our new podcast episode, Ismeet Tames tells @ozanozavci1.bsky.social about her ongoing research into stateless people after World War I, uncovering the 'communities of care' that stateless individuals created to rebuild their lives 👇
thelausanneproject.com/2025/03/07/p...
thelausanneproject.com/2025/03/07/p...
PODCAST – Episode 65: Nansen’s People
Ozan Ozavci talks with Ismee Tames about her ongoing research into stateless people after World War I, uncovering the communities of care that stateless individuals created to rebuild their lives.
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March 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
📣 In our new podcast episode, Ismeet Tames tells @ozanozavci1.bsky.social about her ongoing research into stateless people after World War I, uncovering the 'communities of care' that stateless individuals created to rebuild their lives 👇
thelausanneproject.com/2025/03/07/p...
thelausanneproject.com/2025/03/07/p...
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Last summer I joined 'Fighting Pandemics from Below.' project at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
In this blog for @lausanneproject.bsky.social, I reflect on how my new home is connected to my research on Belgium's role in the Sanitary Council of Morocco. 🚰
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/21/t...
In this blog for @lausanneproject.bsky.social, I reflect on how my new home is connected to my research on Belgium's role in the Sanitary Council of Morocco. 🚰
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/21/t...
A Tale of Two Towers
Gert Huskens tells the story of two water towers, one in Tangier, the other in Utrecht, that connect the histories of global entrepreneurship and sanitary internationalism.
thelausanneproject.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Last summer I joined 'Fighting Pandemics from Below.' project at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
In this blog for @lausanneproject.bsky.social, I reflect on how my new home is connected to my research on Belgium's role in the Sanitary Council of Morocco. 🚰
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/21/t...
In this blog for @lausanneproject.bsky.social, I reflect on how my new home is connected to my research on Belgium's role in the Sanitary Council of Morocco. 🚰
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/21/t...
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🚨 Uncover the world of spies! 🚨
Join Prof. Dr. Nadine Akkerman for "Spycraft: Tricks & Tools of the Dangerous Trade"—a deep dive into early modern espionage! 🕵️♂️✨
📅 24 Feb 2025 | 📍 Utrecht | ⏰ 17:00-18:15
Wrap up with drinks! 🍷 Sign up: forms.gle/tuMcokU1QQdG...
#Spycraft #Espionage #History
Join Prof. Dr. Nadine Akkerman for "Spycraft: Tricks & Tools of the Dangerous Trade"—a deep dive into early modern espionage! 🕵️♂️✨
📅 24 Feb 2025 | 📍 Utrecht | ⏰ 17:00-18:15
Wrap up with drinks! 🍷 Sign up: forms.gle/tuMcokU1QQdG...
#Spycraft #Espionage #History
February 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🚨 Uncover the world of spies! 🚨
Join Prof. Dr. Nadine Akkerman for "Spycraft: Tricks & Tools of the Dangerous Trade"—a deep dive into early modern espionage! 🕵️♂️✨
📅 24 Feb 2025 | 📍 Utrecht | ⏰ 17:00-18:15
Wrap up with drinks! 🍷 Sign up: forms.gle/tuMcokU1QQdG...
#Spycraft #Espionage #History
Join Prof. Dr. Nadine Akkerman for "Spycraft: Tricks & Tools of the Dangerous Trade"—a deep dive into early modern espionage! 🕵️♂️✨
📅 24 Feb 2025 | 📍 Utrecht | ⏰ 17:00-18:15
Wrap up with drinks! 🍷 Sign up: forms.gle/tuMcokU1QQdG...
#Spycraft #Espionage #History
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"If they can take lessons from what was achieved by the Ottomans after the 1860 massacre, then this would be the miraculous outcome of the fall of Assad." Eugene Rogan on what we can learn from an "Ottoman success story" of post-genocide reconstruction. thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/07/p...
PODCAST – Episode 64: Syria’s Choice
Eugene Rogan and Ozan Ozavci discuss the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today̵…
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February 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"If they can take lessons from what was achieved by the Ottomans after the 1860 massacre, then this would be the miraculous outcome of the fall of Assad." Eugene Rogan on what we can learn from an "Ottoman success story" of post-genocide reconstruction. thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/07/p...
New podcast episode @lausanneproject.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏼👇
Eugene Rogan on the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today’s challenges
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/07/p...
Eugene Rogan on the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today’s challenges
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/07/p...
PODCAST – Episode 64: Syria’s Choice
Eugene Rogan and Ozan Ozavci discuss the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today̵…
thelausanneproject.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
New podcast episode @lausanneproject.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏼👇
Eugene Rogan on the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today’s challenges
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/07/p...
Eugene Rogan on the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today’s challenges
thelausanneproject.com/2025/02/07/p...
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present his debut book, Empire of Refugees, at Utrecht next month.
Join us on 12 March for a discussion on the historical roots of modern refugee regimes and population transfer as a tool of governance 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏻 @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social
Join us on 12 March for a discussion on the historical roots of modern refugee regimes and population transfer as a tool of governance 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏻 @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present his debut book, Empire of Refugees, at Utrecht next month.
Join us on 12 March for a discussion on the historical roots of modern refugee regimes and population transfer as a tool of governance 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏻 @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social
Join us on 12 March for a discussion on the historical roots of modern refugee regimes and population transfer as a tool of governance 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏻 @vhtroyansky.bsky.social @turkeystudies.bsky.social
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Jon's new IJMES article argues for a less histrionic and more historical reading of Iran's oil history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–1947 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core
“The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–1947
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January 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Jon's new IJMES article argues for a less histrionic and more historical reading of Iran's oil history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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"We didn't talk about exams." This week's podcast explores a project that got 9th graders curating "My Own 1922". thelausanneproject.com/2025/01/10/p...
PODCAST – Episode 63: My Own 1922
Anna Enepekidou looks back at a project that turned high schoolers into curators as well as students of history.
thelausanneproject.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"We didn't talk about exams." This week's podcast explores a project that got 9th graders curating "My Own 1922". thelausanneproject.com/2025/01/10/p...
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Anna Batzeli on the public health emergency foisted on Piraeus by occupying forces during the Crimean War. thelausanneproject.com/2025/01/17/t...
The Foreigner in Piraeus
Anna Batzeli reveals how French forces brought cholera to Piraeus during their occupation of Greece, making the war twice as deadly.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Anna Batzeli on the public health emergency foisted on Piraeus by occupying forces during the Crimean War. thelausanneproject.com/2025/01/17/t...
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We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
January 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
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Dear NDH'ers, we start the new year with a new social platform.
We hope many of you will join us here as before.
Spread the word!
And we hope to see you in Aix for NDH6!
❤️
@lukasschemper.bsky.social @elineceulemans.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @giusirusso.bsky.social @luikki.bsky.social
We hope many of you will join us here as before.
Spread the word!
And we hope to see you in Aix for NDH6!
❤️
@lukasschemper.bsky.social @elineceulemans.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @giusirusso.bsky.social @luikki.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Dear NDH'ers, we start the new year with a new social platform.
We hope many of you will join us here as before.
Spread the word!
And we hope to see you in Aix for NDH6!
❤️
@lukasschemper.bsky.social @elineceulemans.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @giusirusso.bsky.social @luikki.bsky.social
We hope many of you will join us here as before.
Spread the word!
And we hope to see you in Aix for NDH6!
❤️
@lukasschemper.bsky.social @elineceulemans.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @giusirusso.bsky.social @luikki.bsky.social
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BSKY, meet The Lausanne Project. We're here to keep you informed about our podcasts, workshops, lesson plans and books, all devoted to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its contested legacies, in Turkey, Greece and the rest of the world - and to share news of our collaborators and friends.
December 31, 2024 at 2:53 PM
BSKY, meet The Lausanne Project. We're here to keep you informed about our podcasts, workshops, lesson plans and books, all devoted to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its contested legacies, in Turkey, Greece and the rest of the world - and to share news of our collaborators and friends.
Join us tomorrow if you have nothing better to do. Professor Eugene Rogan will talk about his new book 'The Damascus Events'. The event will be moderated by yours truly.
Register here to reserve your spot at the lecture, followed by a drinks reception:
securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/11/11/s...
Register here to reserve your spot at the lecture, followed by a drinks reception:
securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/11/11/s...
December 10, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Join us tomorrow if you have nothing better to do. Professor Eugene Rogan will talk about his new book 'The Damascus Events'. The event will be moderated by yours truly.
Register here to reserve your spot at the lecture, followed by a drinks reception:
securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/11/11/s...
Register here to reserve your spot at the lecture, followed by a drinks reception:
securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/11/11/s...
📣 Episode #60 of The Lausanne Project Podcast is out! 📣🎉
Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼
thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...
Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼
thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...
PODCAST – Episode 60: Inventing Ikbal
Nile Green walks Jonathan Conlin through Ikbal and Idries Shah’s unstable stable of aliases and identities.
thelausanneproject.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:29 AM
📣 Episode #60 of The Lausanne Project Podcast is out! 📣🎉
Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼
thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...
Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼
thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...
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Join us on 10/12 for a lecture by @koenvanzon.bsky.social on Europe's decade-long search for legitimacy. In the lecture, Koen analyses how the democratic nature of the EU evolved and explore the way the EU’s institutions, citizens and interest groups interact. Join 👇
www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
Lecture Koen van Zon: The European Union’s Decade-long Search for Legitimacy
In this lecture, organised by the History of European Unification course, Koen van Zon will explore the decade-long search for the democratic legitimacy of the European Union.
www.uu.nl
November 27, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Join us on 10/12 for a lecture by @koenvanzon.bsky.social on Europe's decade-long search for legitimacy. In the lecture, Koen analyses how the democratic nature of the EU evolved and explore the way the EU’s institutions, citizens and interest groups interact. Join 👇
www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
📣Starting off skeeting in true academic style, by shamelessly self-promoting, of course!
Securing Empire is officially published! 🎉
It explores how 'security' fueled imperial cooperation but it was also used to justify imperial/colonial expansion & violence in the 19c, much like today 👇👇🏽👇🏿 1/3
Securing Empire is officially published! 🎉
It explores how 'security' fueled imperial cooperation but it was also used to justify imperial/colonial expansion & violence in the 19c, much like today 👇👇🏽👇🏿 1/3
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 AM
📣Starting off skeeting in true academic style, by shamelessly self-promoting, of course!
Securing Empire is officially published! 🎉
It explores how 'security' fueled imperial cooperation but it was also used to justify imperial/colonial expansion & violence in the 19c, much like today 👇👇🏽👇🏿 1/3
Securing Empire is officially published! 🎉
It explores how 'security' fueled imperial cooperation but it was also used to justify imperial/colonial expansion & violence in the 19c, much like today 👇👇🏽👇🏿 1/3
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🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM
🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
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Happy to announce the birth of a new book! How/why did empires relentlessly expand - and worked together? Not competition but transaction and cooperation was key to the Age of Empires in the long 19th century. With brilliant colleagues Erik de Lange & Ozan Ozavci: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/securing-...
Securing Empire
This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of int…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Happy to announce the birth of a new book! How/why did empires relentlessly expand - and worked together? Not competition but transaction and cooperation was key to the Age of Empires in the long 19th century. With brilliant colleagues Erik de Lange & Ozan Ozavci: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/securing-...