The UCLA European History Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies, will be on Tuesday, April 23rd, at 4pm PST, in Bunche Hall 6275 and via Zoom Webinar. Theodora Dragostinova, Professor of History at Ohio State University will give a talk entitled "Archival Whispers: Dilemmas of Family Reunification in the Post-1918 Balkans".

About the Speaker

Theodora Dragostinova's research focuses geographically on Modern Europe, the Balkans, and Bulgaria and thematically on comparative nationalism, migration and mobility, and the global Cold War. She is interested in how geopolitics, nationalism, war, shifting borders, and migration dynamics shape the choices of states, communities, and ordinary people. Dragostinova is the author of Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Cornell University Press, 2011) and The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Cornell University Press, 2021). She is the coeditor of Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (Central European University Press, 2016) and Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023). She is currently working on missing children and divided families in the borderlands of Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey, tentatively entitled "Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the Post-1918 Balkans".

Venue

Bunche Hall Room 6275
11282 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Parking

Parking Structure 5 is closest to the event venue. Parking Structure 5 is accessible from Royce Drive, south of Sunset Boulevard, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). Alternatively, Parking Structure 4 is also close to the venue and has Pay-By-Space Visitor Parking available. Guest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Accessible parking: If you have accessibility needs, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card. Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of History