With Norig Neveu, Karène Sanchez Summerer, and Annalaura Turiano hosted by Andreas Guidi for a joint release with Ottoman History Podcast Since the 19th century, different forms of missionary activities and preaching have been shaping the

Bulgarian Muslims between Empire and Nation

Jan 24th, 2022 34m 43s

With Milena Methodieva hosted by Andreas Guidi and Jovo Miladinovic for a joint release with Ottoman History Podcast The Aladja Mosque in Plovdiv, early 20th century (Wikimedia Commons) In 1878, following the Congress of Berlin, Bulgaria

A History of Knowledge about the Holocaust in Bulgaria

Nov 2nd, 2021 41m 6s

With Nadège Ragaru Marco Behar: “Their Last Way” (from the Series “Past”, detail, 1958), Courtesy of the Bulgarian National Gallery, Sofia. Since the immediate aftermath of the end of World War II, a narrative concerning the rescue of the B

The Armenian Genocide and Property Usurpation in Aintab

Oct 10th, 2021 45m 11s

With Ümit Kurt Hosted by Zeynep Ertuğrul and Andreas Guidi A prominent Armenian family deported and perished in 1915. Source: Mihran Minassian Private Collection. The Armenian community of Aintab, nowadays Gaziantep, was among the most flou

#038 – German Resettlers and Jewish Survivors from Bukovina after 1945

Sep 9th, 2021 41m 50s

With Gaëlle Fisher At the crossroad of Bukovinans Street and Radauti Street, Stuttgart. Courtesy of Gaelle Fisher. Before World War II, Bukovina was a region marked by multiconfessional coexistence and ruled by the Habsburg Empire (1774-1918)

#037 – Hunger and War during the Italian Occupation of Greece

Jul 24th, 2021 38m 59s

with Paolo Fonzi A 1941 cartoon from the newspaper “The Manchester Dispatch”, mocking Mussolini’s dependency on Hitler to defeat Greece In the spring of 1941, after a brief war ending in an embarrassing retreat for Italy one year earlier, Mus

#036 – Political Opposition from the Ottoman Empire to Republican Turkey

Jun 21st, 2021 33m 31s

with Christine Philliou hosted by Zeynep Ertugrul and Jovo Miladinovic Portrait of Refik Halit Karay in Aleppo (1928). Courtesy of the Taha Toros Archive Refik Halid Karay was a satirical writer whose life can help us rethink the transition f

#035 – Ottoman Port Cities of the Modern Mediterranean

Apr 1st, 2021 41m 51s

with Malte Fuhrmann hosted by Andreas Guidi and Zeynep Ertugrul for a joint release with Ottoman History Podcast (Steamers, row and sailing boats on the Istanbul Golden Horn, ca. 1890. Courtesy of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Istanbul

#034 – Being a Musician in Germany, 1850-1960

Sep 20th, 2020 47m 11s

with Martin Rempe A military band from Germany, 1913 (Wikimedia Commons) A few countries can boast a musical heritage comparable to Germany’s. Yet, this tradition was made possible by rank-and-file musicians, whose position in society was far f

#033 – How the Ottomans shaped the Modern World

Aug 18th, 2020 1h

with Alan Mikhail Sultan Selim I and Piri Reis’s world map (1513) – collage based on Wikimedia commons The Ottoman Empire was a key force in the making of the early modern world. Growing from a regional to a global player and to the most powe

#032 – The Mediterranean viewed from the Southern Shore

Jul 18th, 2020 34m 41s

with Jasmin Daam, Esther Möller, Cyrus Schayegh, and Selim Deringil a joint release with Ottoman History Podcast Swimming at the Corniche of Beirut, in the background: the Hôtel Saint-Georges, 1930s. © Fonds photographique René Zuber. Modern Me

#031 – History and memory of the Holocaust in Thessaloniki

Jun 17th, 2020 39m 43s

with Leon Saltiel Transport of Jews from the Ghetto in the Eastern part of Thessaloniki to the Baron Hirsch transit camp, via Egnatia street, April 9, 1943. The Jews can be seen in between two columns of onlookers who were watching the scene. T

#030 – Archives and Temporality in the 19th century

Apr 22nd, 2020 35m 28s

with Sina Steglich J. W. M. Turner, Rain, steam, and speed (1844, Wikimedia Commons) In the 19th century, technological innovations brought about new conceptions of time. The idea of modernity redefined the contemporaries’ relationship with the

#029 – A Transnational History of Kemalism

Jun 9th, 2019 42m 58s

with Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek SPECIAL EPISODE IN COOPERATION WITH “OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCAST”

Jean-François Pérouse: Istanbul Planète

Jun 19th, 2018 7m 36s

Gabriel Doyle is a Ph.D. student in History at the Cetobac / EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the spatial and material implications of diplomatic, missionary and philanthropic activity in late Ottoman Istanbul. His wider interests incl

#028 – Slavery and servitude in the Ottoman Mediterranean

May 14th, 2018 47m 5s

with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkoray SPECIAL EPISODE IN COOPERATION WITH “OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCAST” Joseph taken out of the well by Madianite merchants before getting sold into slavery. Ḳalender Paşa (compilator), Fālnāme, Topkapı Sara

#027 – Nationalism, Folk Culture and History in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nov 19th, 2017 44m 45s

with Dennis Dierks The first header of the magazine Bosanska Vila, 1885 The process of nation building inside and outside the Balkans is one of the most studied phenomena of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this episode, we discuss

Masha Gessen: “Where the Jews aren’t”

Oct 23rd, 2017 7m 37s

Agustín Cosovschi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the University of San Martín (Buenos Aires). His interests include Eastern European history and culture, intellectual history and political

#026 – The Making of Orientalism and Turkish Studies in Italy 1861-1911

Oct 12th, 2017 40m 33s

With Marie Bossaert Portrait of an old Turk. Photograph by the Italian geographer Lamberto Vannutelli, 1904. (source Società Geografica Italiana) In this episode, we discuss the emergence and the development of Oriental and Turkish studies

#025 – Discussing Corruption in Yugoslavia, 1918-2000

Sep 19th, 2017 48m 34s

with Klaus Buchenau The building of the Ministry of Justice, Terazije Square, Belgrade (source Wikimedia commons) Historians can offer a perspective on corruption that goes beyond a normative and simplistic dimension. Approaching past discour

#024 – Kemalism and the Making of Modern Turkey

Jul 5th, 2017 44m 11s

With Erik-Jan Zürcher SPECIAL EPISODE IN COOPERATION WITH “OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCAST” Cover of the revue published in French“La Turquie Kamaliste” used in 1935 and 1936 In this episode, we discuss the emergence of the Turkish nationalist movem

#023 – Turkish Labor Unions under AKP Rule

Jun 22nd, 2017 41m 39s

with İşil Erdinç Workers of the DİSK Confederation at the Gezi Park protests. The tag says “Tayyip, this is the beginning of the end” Since 2002, when the Party of Development and Justice (AKP) seized power in Turkey, the relationship between

#022 – A Look at Vučić’s Serbia and the Emergence of New Social Movements

Jun 8th, 2017 51m 13s

with Milica Popović and Jovana Papović Street protests in Belgrade, April 2017 (Photo: Ne Davimo Beograd, Facebook) On 2 April 2017 Alexander Vučić became President of Serbia, winning the first round of the elections, obtaining a score of 55

#021 – On the Road with Romanian Migrants and Traders

May 19th, 2017 46m 6s

with Norah Benarrosh-Orsoni Travellers and drivers during a break on the road from Montreuil to Arad After 1989, Romania’s economy and its labor market experienced dramatic changes. One of the most common strategies to survive in a state of

#020 – Space, Wealth, and Power in the Ottoman Empire

May 3rd, 2017 50m 33s

with Ali Yaycioglu Fethiye Mosque and Ali Pasha’s tomb, Ioannina (Greece) Ottoman Studies offer several unexplored fields of research for the perspectives introduced by the so called “spatial turn” in historiography. “Space” can be investigat