TLP Convenors

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

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PODCAST – Episode 12 (Part I): ‘A Realistic Solution’ 18.03.2022 23:38

Erik-Jan Zürcher talks to Ozan Ozavci about the treaties of Sèvres, Lausanne and their legacy in different official histories of Turkey.

PODCAST – Episode 11: The Many Lives of Muhalefet 04.03.2022 33:19

Ozan Ozavci talks to Christine Philliou about her new book "Turkey: A Past Against History" and the many lives of muhalefet (opposition) from the late Ottoman Empire to today.

PODCAST – Episode 10: The Roads to Lausanne 18.02.2022 27:24

Jay Winter discusses his forthcoming landmark study of Lausanne with Jonathan Conlin.

PODCAST – Episode 9: Gaziantep’s Forgotten Past 04.02.2022 25:17

Ümit Kurt explains to Jonathan Conlin how an innocent question asked in his local cafe launched him on a journey into Gaziantep's past, uncovering the genocidal violence that gave birth to a new Muslim bourgeoisie.

PODCAST – Episode 8: Eternal Dawn 14.01.2022 34:29

Ryan Gingeras speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his 2019 book Eternal Dawn and the Kemalist mythos in Turkey.

PODCAST – Episode 7: The Other Republic 10.12.2021 34:31

Ozan Ozavci talks to James Ryan about early Republican political thought and loyal opposition in Turkey: liberals and leftists from Nazım Hikmet to Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. What made these figures the loyal opponents of the republic? And what did Lausanne mean to them?

PODCAST – Episode 6: Fueling Speculation 29.10.2021 23:07

Popular conspiracy theories surrounding the 2023 Lausanne centenary are steeped in oil. Jonathan Conlin invited Zeynep Oguz to discuss how this "absent presence" is invoked in debates surrounding irredentism and national sovereignty in Erdogan's Turkey.

PODCAST – Episode 5: The First Clash 06.08.2021 23:28

Seventy years before Samuel Huntington there was Basil Mathews. Jonathan Conlin and historian Todd Thompson revisit a forgotten text that launched "the clash of civilizations".

PODCAST – Episode 3: When is a tree also a registered charity? 24.07.2021 21:01

Ozan Ozavci asks Gingko's founder Barbara Schwepcke about the inspiration and vision behind the foundation, and how its support for TLP fits into its broader agenda.

PODCAST – Episode 4: Lifting the Curse of Lausanne? 24.07.2021 23:32

What will 2023 mean for today's Turkey? Jonathan Conlin in conversation with historian Nick Danforth.

PODCAST – Episode 2: Hemingway at Lausanne 06.05.2021 19:08

"They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?" James Gifford talks to Jonathan Conlin about Hemingway's poetic response to the Lausanne conference, winter sports, and a lost suitcase.

PODCAST – Episode 1: Crude History? 02.04.2021 28:46

In this podcast Andrew Patrick and Jonathan Conlin discuss the state of play in historical writing about oil.