“Unmixing” humans at Lausanne was tough. “Unmixing” the other animals will be tougher. We're delighted to share our children's book idea, conceived by @julia_seck and Jon @HistoryAtSoton and illustrated by Pia Valär. thelausanneproject.com/emma/
What did Hacivad and Karagiozis really do in 1922? As Anthi Chotzakoglou @uoaofficial explains to Jon @HistoryAtSoton , they didn't go to Lausanne. Instead they brought courage, propaganda and comic relief to audiences on the Anatolian front. thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
ICYMI: TLP convenor Angelos Palikidis explores graphic novels (including TLP's own), school history and the 1922 "Catastrophe" in "To Vima".
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The World City will be...Ottoman?? Don't worry, Ioanna Theocharopoulou @Columbia and our Jon @HistoryAtSoton can explain. With a little help from historian A. J. Toynbee and architect Constantinos Doxiadis. thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
In our latest podcast Francisco Javier Martínez and Ozan discuss cholera, hajj and Morocco @unizar thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
Gerard Rathenau sees analogies between the ways in which infrastructure, power and sovereignty interacted around the late Ottoman Baghdad Railway and today’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
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 @Unibo @HistoryAtSoton thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
What happened when Islamic judges steeped in divine law found themselves answerable to Habsburg officials who had never opened a Quran? To find out, listen to our episode with Ninja Bumann @jlugiessen and @julia_seck thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
"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." They did. What happened next is one of the most moving stories we've had the privilege to share. thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
Ozan Ozavci traces how @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/…
Adnen El Ghali @unito 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/…
How can teachers address sensitive historical topics in the classroom? Today @UniUtrecht TLP is exploring this question with teachers from Greece and Turkey, refining our Lausanne lesson plans for today's students. thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
Kemal Deniz Karabacak @UniBogazici on how he encountered traces of Greek-speaking Muslim exchangees in his own backyard of Çatalca: thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
Can satire build bridges between communities, as well as between past and present? Anna Kollatz talks @julia_seck through a recent exhibition of caricatures from the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
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 thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
When the shooting starts, does the archaeology stop? Ceren Abi talks to @julia_seck about how the Ottomans and Allied powers engaged with and occasionally weaponized antiquities during the Great War. @MESA_1966 @MESAGA2019 thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
In the last of a special series hosted by @Online_Andri and @giannako , guests @h_tzimitras @TheAhmetSozen Ipek Borman and @ince_ibrahim confront Cyprus’s present impasse. @PRIOCyprus @CyprusPolicyCen thelausanneproject.com/2026/…
Everyday items—a refrigerator too wide for a checkpoint, a rusted washing machine—become metaphors for living with constraint. In our podcast with @ince_ibrahim and Ezgi Özdemir @ozyeginuni we look at material cultures of partition. thelausanneproject.com/2025/…
"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/…
In the second of a special series, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus, with hosts @Online_Andri and TLP's @giannako, both @CityStGeorges
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