Ioanna Theocharopoulou and Jonathan Conlin on how the violent dissolution of Ottoman communities inspired a British historian and a Greek architect and planner to design the city of tomorrow.

Ethan Chandler on how the capitalist and nationalist revolutions of an Ottoman port-city reveal the layers beneath the Treaty of Lausanne.

Francisco Javier Martínez and Ozan Ozavci discuss a distinctive form of sanitary internationalism that emerged in Morocco in the late eighteenth century, shaping the intertwined histories of pilgri…

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).

Extending citizenship to marginal communities is one way states grab power and influence, as well as subjects, away from rival powers. But shopping among rival “protectors” gives indivi…

What happened when Islamic judges (qadis) steeped in divine law found themselves answerable to Habsburg officials who had never opened a Quran? Ninja Bumann and Julia Secklehner discuss how Habsbur…

Lausanne displaced the living, and it desecrated the dead that exchanged communities left behind. Jonathan Conlin talks to Leonidas Karakatsanis and Ülker Başak Yesilkaya about grass-roots initiati…

Ozan Ozavci traces how Royal Dutch Shell and the young Turkish republic courted each other over Anatolia’s petroleum, only for both to get cold feet and walk away.

Adnen el Ghali - Cet ouvrage est une invitation à découvrir le fonctionnement et l'essor de la triade consulaire composée des consuls, des établissements consulaires et de leurs territoires d’inscript...

Adnen El Ghali 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.

The Lausanne Project will host a Teachers’ Workshop on 26–27 March 2026 in Utrecht, bringing together Greek and Turkish teachers and Education Experts. The workshop is organised with the support of…

Kemal Deniz Karabacak on how he encountered traces of Greek-speaking Muslim exchangees in his own backyard of Çatalca.

Can satire build bridges between communities, as well as between past and present? Anna Kollatz talks Julia Secklehner through Erst lachen, dann denken!/Laugh first, think later!, a recent exhibiti…

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.

When the shooting starts, does the archaeology stop? Ceren Abi talks to Julia Secklehner about how the Ottomans and Allied powers engaged with and occasionally weaponized antiquities during the Gre…

In the last of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Harry Tzimitras, Ahmet Sözen, Ipek Borman and Ibrahim Ince confront Cyprus’s present impasse.

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…

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.

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…

Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.

In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.

Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism.

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...

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…

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…

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…

Salih Yasun on how unexpected and intimate ties connect Kavala to Alexandria via Görükle.

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...

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 ...

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…

Hadwig Kraeutler on an overlooked 1940 biography that presented the sultan as a key to past, present and future.

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…

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

Özge Baykan Calafato introduces Julia Secklehner and Enno Maessen to her work exploring the role of photography in developing modern Turkish citizenship.

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…

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.

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.

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 today&#821…

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 today&#821…

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 …

“The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–1947

Anna Batzeli reveals how French forces brought cholera to Piraeus during their occupation of Greece, making the war twice as deadly.

Anna Enepekidou looks back at a project that turned high schoolers into curators as well as students of history.