Imperial Legacies in the Interwar Period

• Department of History

This workshop, organised by the EUI Interwar Histories Working Group, brings together scholars investigating the social, legal, international-political, and economic aspects of the collapse of empires and nation-state formation in interwar Europe.

November 2022 marks the centenary of the opening of the Lausanne Conference, the last among several peace negotiations that reshaped the European and global political map in the aftermath of the Great War. The resulting treaty set the borders of the new Turkish nation-state and attempted to resolve the contradictions inherent to this project through the Greco-Turkish population exchange. The treaty's traumatic consequences are emblematic of the wider difficulties of establishing a new post-imperial international order on the ruins of Europe’s vanquished contiguous empires. 

Over the last decade, historians have drawn increased attention to the multifaceted character of the imperial legacies that defined interwar Europe. By investigating the social, legal, international-political, and economic aspects of the collapse of empires and the formation of new states, we aim to shed new light on the implications of Europe's intersecting imperial, national, and international pasts. 

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