Department of History

Tobias Weger, University of Munich

A European Borderland. The Multiethnic Region of Dobruja/Dobrogea

Event Description

Dobrudja, the land between the Lower Danube and the Black Sea, was a part of the Ottoman Empire until 1878 and thereafter a Romanian province. It is a European region in which people of various ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been living together for centuries. This talk will focus on the German-speaking colonists who settled there from 1840 to 1940 and highlight the ambiguous relationship between localism and globalization that existed in the region.

Tobias Weger is senior researcher at the Munichbased Institute for German History and Culture in South-East Europe (IKGS). His research focuses on 19th and 20th Century East Central and South-East European history.

Date

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Time

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location and Address

History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh

Event Series