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Featuring Professor Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University.

This talk follows the trajectories of one Greek family from Karaağaç that found itself in Bulgaria after the Great War to make the case for the uncertainty of postwar peace-making, border-making, home-making, and family-making in the Balkan borderlands.

Lunch will be served! 

Theodora Dragostinova is a Professor of History at The Ohio State University whose research explores state- and nation-building, migration and mobility, and cultural exchange in the Balkans, with a focus on Bulgaria and Greece. She is the author of Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Cornell, 2011) and The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Cornell, 2021). She is the coeditor of Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (CEU Press, 2016) and Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region. A Festschrift in Honor of Maria Todorova (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023). She is currently working on missing children and divided families in the borderlands between Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey, tentatively entitled “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans.”