The Lausanne Project (TLP)

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A century ago the Treaty of Lausanne remade the Middle East, in ways we are still struggling to understand. Join historians, anthropologists, curators and commentators as we tease out the legacies for Turkey, its neighbours and the wider world, and for more content, visit our website at www.thelausanneproject.com

  1. DEC 12

    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 island's global diaspora.

    51 min

  2. NOV 28

    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.

    41 min

  3. NOV 14

    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 memory.

    41 min

  4. OCT 24

    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.

    31 min

  5. SEP 12

    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 purity and authorial intent.

    33 min

  6. SEP 8

    PODCAST – Episode 71: 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.

    20 min

  7. AUG 15

    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 tumultuous nineteenth-century in Syria and Egypt, culminating in the 1860 massacre of the Christians of Damascus in which Mishaqa narrowly escaped with his life.

    25 min

  8. JUL 22

    PODCAST – Episode 69: Restoration Histories

    Bariş Altan introduces Julia Secklehner to Cahide Tamer, a pioneer in architectural restoration and one of the first women architects in Turkey. Recently rescued, her archive fills a gap in the story of Istanbul's historic landmarks, while her example of courage gives inspiration to today's preservationists.

    20 min
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A century ago the Treaty of Lausanne remade the Middle East, in ways we are still struggling to understand. Join historians, anthropologists, curators and commentators as we tease out the legacies for Turkey, its neighbours and the wider world, and for more content, visit our website at www.thelausanneproject.com

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