A century after the armistice that put an end to WWI, the volume War and Displacement in the Ottoman Empire, 1890s -1923 aims at reconsidering these movements, adopting a double methodological caution: on the one hand, avoiding a teleological approach to the study of the Ottoman defeat and, on the other, connecting late Ottoman history to wider dynamics –namely the collapse of the empire’s European counterparts, Russia and Austria-Hungary, and also to other migration processes such as the movements induced by the “Greek Revolution.” It will thus focus on the population movements induced by the conflicts of the “Eastern Question” in the Balkans, the eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and the Near East in the late nineteenth century and on those prompted by the Young Turk Revolution, the Great War, and the renegotiation of Turkey’s borders as reflected in the Treaty of Lausanne in a larger context.

Dilek Barlas will be the moderator of the talk.

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