Long before the Turkish State Opera opened in 1949, Halide Edip Adıvar was mong those imagining what Turkish opera might sound like. In this conversation Jonathan Conlin asks Ici Vanwesenbeeck to explain how this remarkable polymath conceived of an opera that was neither "alla franca" nor "alla turca".
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PODCAST – Episode 67: Freehold of the World
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 international order, an order that the League failed to establish in Geneva.
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PODCAST – Episode 66: Teaching the Greater War
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 uncomfortable analogies with their own times.
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PODCAST – Episode 65: Nansen’s People
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.
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PODCAST – Episode 64: Syria’s Choice
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's challenges.
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