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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
In the second of a special series, 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
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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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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...
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...
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.
"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...
@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
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...
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...
"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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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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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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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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"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...
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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