Bulgarians in Macedonia and Macedonians in Bulgaria - Do They Exist?
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Date
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10 February 2015
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Time
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6:00 - 7:30pm
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, (COW 1.11), 1st floor, Cowdray House, LSE, London WC2A 2AE
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Speaker
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Kyril Drezov, Keele University
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Chair
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Dr James Ker-Lindsay, LSEE Research on SEE, London School of Economics
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The seminar will explore some long-standing disagreements on ethnic and regional identities that prevent genuine normalisation of relations between Sofia and Skopje.
Kyril Drezov is Lecturer in Politics at Keele University and director of the Keele Southeast Europe Unit. His main research areas are communist and post-communist politics, modernisation and nationalism in the Balkans, and Panslavism. He has contributed extensively on Balkan, Bulgarian and Macedonian affairs to BBC World Service and Oxford Analytica, and has advised international consultancies, banks and governments.
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