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What happened when Islamic judges steeped in divine law found themselves answerable to Habsburg officials who had never opened a Quran? To find out, listen to our episode with Ninja Bumann @jlugiessen and @julia_seck https://t.co/nmkKEfBeZb

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"If our Turkish neighbours return and ask about their ancestors’ remains, hand over the bones under the walnut tree. One day, our neighbours will come back." They did. What happened next is one of the most moving stories we've had the privilege to share. https://t.co/I0WOOi0S3s

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Ozan Ozavci traces how @shell and the young Turkish republic courted each other over Anatolia’s petroleum, only for both to get cold feet and walk away.https://t.co/tzVsalJRFp

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Adnen El Ghali @unito 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. https://t.co/mRVgh3jF95

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How can teachers address sensitive historical topics in the classroom? Today @UniUtrecht TLP is exploring this question with teachers from Greece and Turkey, refining our Lausanne lesson plans for today's students. https://t.co/EJNcuEhmG4

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Kemal Deniz Karabacak @UniBogazici on how he encountered traces of Greek-speaking Muslim exchangees in his own backyard of Çatalca: https://t.co/T1mVYmFAVn

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Can satire build bridges between communities, as well as between past and present? Anna Kollatz talks @julia_seck through a recent exhibition of caricatures from the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. https://t.co/nfWMiPRdRh

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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 https://t.co/sUqo3XOdZF

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When the shooting starts, does the archaeology stop? Ceren Abi talks to @julia_seck about how the Ottomans and Allied powers engaged with and occasionally weaponized antiquities during the Great War. @MESA_1966 @MESAGA2019 https://t.co/u0qeKyOf7w

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In the last of a special series hosted by @Online_Andri and @giannako , guests @h_tzimitras @TheAhmetSozen Ipek Borman and @ince_ibrahim  confront Cyprus’s present impasse. @PRIOCyprus @CyprusPolicyCen https://t.co/ARVi02gXtd

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Everyday items—a refrigerator too wide for a checkpoint, a rusted washing machine—become metaphors for living with constraint. In our podcast with @ince_ibrahim and Ezgi Özdemir @ozyeginuni we look at material cultures of partition. https://t.co/0sSrR8bDZF

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"It's impossible to be non-politicised in Cyprus after 1955. But once you leave and move to London, it’s television media, letters to your family back home…you know what’s going on. It’s traumatizing you." https://t.co/CT4VPWWLXp

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In the second of a special series, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus, with hosts @Online_Andri and TLP's @giannako, both @CityStGeorges
https://t.co/4TLlQnBLQ0

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Today we launch a special series of podcasts about Cyprus, hosted by Alexandria Innes @Online_Andri and TLP convenor Georgios Giannakopoulos, both @CityStGeorges https://t.co/LS5gcyktGE

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Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.
https://t.co/lmOgiwVP8P

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Last night in Heidelberg @julia_seck and @erverdig introduced our graphic novel, answering the question "can caricature teach history"? This event coincided with the close of a special exhibition on caricature in the Near East, hosted by the University Museum Heidelberg.

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In Nea Roda, @ethantchandler of @uoaofficial traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees. https://t.co/na8fu06MKh

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Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism (with handy advice for anyone new to producing visualisations). https://t.co/6L58PeRPme

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Our friends at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen are hosting a conference on Memory, Identity and Trauma after the 1923 Lausanne Exchange. CFP (deadline 1 November) here: https://t.co/M7MsyADEAo

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William Stroebel on the stories Lausanne tried to silence, that combined scripts and vocabularies in ways that challenged philologists' obsession with linguistic purity. @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/T6dSI0AlRZ