East Central European Center
The East Central European Center promotes the study of the nations and peoples located between Germany and Russia and between the Baltic and Aegean seas. Established in 1954 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, it was the first academic unit in any major U.S. academic institution to deal exclusively with East Central Europe.
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Film Screening & Discussion. Solaris Mon Amour
Film Screening & Discussion. Solaris Mon Amour
ECEC Faculty
![Aleksandar Bošković](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/headshot_Boskovic-Aleksandar-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Aleksandar Bošković
Senior Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian; Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center
![Mircea Cărtărescu](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cartarescu-300-x-300.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Mircea Cărtărescu
Writer in Residence
![Ofer Dynes](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Dynes-Profile-Pic-2020-Campus-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Ofer Dynes
Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Slavic Languages
![Gábor Egry](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Egry-300-x-300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Gábor Egry
Istvan Deak Visiting Professor in the Department of History
![Christopher Harwood](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/headshot_Harwood-Christopher.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Christopher Harwood
Senior Lecturer in Czech
![Annette Insdorf](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/headshot_Insdorf-annette-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Annette Insdorf
Professor, Film
![Valentina Izmirlieva](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/headshot_Valentina-Izmirlieva-800x800-1-300x300.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
![Rebecca Kobrin](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/headshot_Korbin-Rebecca-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Rebecca Kobrin
Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies
![Wojciech Kopczuk](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/headshot_Kopczuk-Wojciech-square-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Wojciech Kopczuk
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
![Agnieszka Legutko](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Legutko-headshot.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Agnieszka Legutko
Senior Lecturer in Yiddish, Director of the Yiddish Language Program
![Mark Mazower](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/headshot_Mazower-Mark-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and Director of Columbia's Institute for Ideas and Imagination
![Malgorzata Mazurek](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/headshot_Mazurek-Malgorzata-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Malgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies, Department of History
![Jessica Merrill](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/headshot_Merrill-Jessica-300x300.jpeg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Jessica Merrill
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
![Alexandr Osipian](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HARRIMAN-SIMPLE-SQUARE-LOGO-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Alexandr Osipian
Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History
![Tsveta Petrova](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TsvetaPetrova-300x300.jpeg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Tsveta Petrova
Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science
![Tomasz Piskorski](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/headshot_Piskorski-Tomasz-square-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Tomasz Piskorski
Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School
![Katharina Pistor](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/headshot_Pistor_Katharina-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Katharina Pistor
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law; Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation; Member, Committee on Global Thought
![Carol Rounds](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/headshot_Rounds-Carol-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Carol Rounds
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian, Department of Italian
![David Stark](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/headshot_Stark-David-300x300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology; Director of Columbia's Center on Organizational Innovation
![András Vadas](https://b3059196.smushcdn.com/3059196/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Vadas-300-x-300.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
András Vadas
Istvan Deak Visiting Professor in the Department of History
Contact the East Central European Center
Send an email or call 212-854-4623. You can also reach out to one of ECEC’s current co-deputy directors.