The Lausanne Project

Mostafa Minawi and Ozan Ozavci discuss the stories of Sadik and Shafiq al-Mu’ayyad Azmzade, two İstanbullu imperialists from Syria, who experienced the loss of the very empire that defined them.

In the second part of their conversation, Edhem Eldem tells Enno Maessen that Ottoman historians need to get a life.

Edhem Eldem and Enno Maessen on why it isn't always easy being a historian of Ottoman and Turkish history.

Mehdi Sajid tells Ozan Ozavci the story of Shakib Arslan, a member of the Syrian-Palestinian delegation at Lausanne who sought to keep the Ottoman dream alive.

The artist Spyros Aggelopoulos talks to Julia Secklehner about the importance of the folk hero Karagiozis in his work.

Laura Robson explains to Ozan Ozavci how international refugee policies of the early 1920s put the “enterprise” in “humanitarian enterprise.”

Olga Lafazani uses the contrasts between 1922-4 and 2015 to ask hard questions about whose interests are behind the conceptualization and management of "refugee crises".

Stefan Slater and David Macfadyen talk to Julia Secklehner about the how they are reviving interest in Aloïs Derso and Emery Kelèn, whose career as caricaturists to the League and United Nations was launched by a chance meeting at Lausanne.

Ilkim Büke Okyar and Konstantinos Travlos talk to Julia Secklehner about Greek and Turkish caricatures, a neglected resource for historians of identity and conflict in the decades around the Great War.

Kristina Gedgaudaite talks to Julia Secklehner about her research on cultural memory, migration, and graphic novels in contemporary Greek culture.