The Geopolitical Forum

Estonia has become a digital powerhouse, leading the world in online government services while positioned on NATO's strategically important eastern border. The country has shown how technology can strengthen democracy and security simultaneously. How did Estonia transform itself into a digital leader? What can other countries learn from its approach to both innovation and defense? And how can stronger US-Estonia cooperation help address today's evolving security challenges? Join President Karis as he discusses Estonia's experience navigating digital transformation and geopolitical pressures in an increasingly complex world.

This event is hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. We from the Geopolitical Forum can continue the conversation and hang out past 11:00, the scheduled end time of the event, perhaps over a coffee or lunch.

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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.”

This event is hosted by the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. We from the Geopolitical Forum can continue the conversation and hang out past 2:00, the scheduled end time of the event, perhaps over a coffee.

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Michael Froman joins the Council to examine how Trump's policies and recent BRICS diplomacy are reshaping global trade dynamics.

This event is hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. We from the Geopolitical Forum can continue the conversation and hang out past 6:30, the scheduled end time of the event, perhaps over a drink or dinner.

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