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.
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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.
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
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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 memor…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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
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Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.
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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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October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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October 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees thelausanneproject.com/2025/10/10/f...
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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September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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...
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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September 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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...
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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September 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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...
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.
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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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August 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"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...
"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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July 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"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...
@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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July 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@salihyasun.bsky.social on a surprising tale of intimate kinship ties, enduring yet overlooked: thelausanneproject.com/2025/07/04/m...
"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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June 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"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
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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June 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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....
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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June 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
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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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...
"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...
"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
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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...
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.
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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.
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When Fatih's answer to Jay Gatsby died in 1926, the folly he built remained, later housing Ottoman Bank employees who added their chapters to the story of Bulgur Palas. Now the Palas has been rescued, Hande Altinay argues, it's time to tell their stories, too. thelausanneproject.com/2025/03/21/b...
The Gatsby of Fatih
A folly built by a Gatsbyesque “Bulgur King”, Bulgur Palas in Fatih has been rescued by the city of Istanbul. But, Hande Altinay argues, there’s a story here that’s still wa…
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March 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
When Fatih's answer to Jay Gatsby died in 1926, the folly he built remained, later housing Ottoman Bank employees who added their chapters to the story of Bulgur Palas. Now the Palas has been rescued, Hande Altinay argues, it's time to tell their stories, too. thelausanneproject.com/2025/03/21/b...
📣 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 👇
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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 👇
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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. 🚰
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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. 🚰
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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.
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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. 🚰
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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. 🚰
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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
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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
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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 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
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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
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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...
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For more on his book and its themes, and to hear Vladimir’s engaging speaking style, check out our podcast on @lausanneproject.bsky.social
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PODCAST – Episode 53: Empire of Refugees
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his new book on North Caucasian Muslim refugees, and reveals how the Ottoman Empire developed a refugee regime half a century before the League …
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February 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
For more on his book and its themes, and to hear Vladimir’s engaging speaking style, check out our podcast on @lausanneproject.bsky.social
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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