Speaker, Dr. Cristina Florea (Cornell University), will present on “A Holocaust Without Germans? The Destruction of Bukovina’s Jews.”

Cristina Florea is a historian of modern Europe, with a particular focus on the intersections of nationalism, empire and violence in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her forthcoming book Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland explores the history of Bukovina from the late 18th century to the post-World War II period, tracing the region’s shifting political landscapes and their impact on its diverse communities (Ukrainian, Romanian, German, Jewish). Florea has published on the history of Soviet and East European politics and culture, and teaches courses on Eastern European, Soviet and modern European history at Cornell University.