East Central European Center
The Institute on East Central Europe, which was established in 1954 with the aid of the Carnegie Corporation, trains students in the knowledge of peoples and problems of the nations lying between Germany and Russia and between the Balkan and Aegean seas. Renamed the Center on East Central Europe in 1997, it is the oldest academic unit in any major U.S. academic institution to deal exclusively with East Central Europe.
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The Woman Today (Žena danas, 1936-1940) and Popular Front Strategy
The Woman Today (Žena danas, 1936-1940) and Popular Front Strategy
East Central European Center
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Past ECEC Events
The Subversive Pedagogy of Belgrade Surrealism
The Subversive Pedagogy of Belgrade Surrealism
Readings from Jerzy Ficowski’s Everything I Don’t Know
Readings from Jerzy Ficowski’s Everything I Don’t Know
Film Screening & Discussion. The Graduates
Film Screening & Discussion. The Graduates
Landscape Cinema: Image Politics After Yugoslavia
Landscape Cinema: Image Politics After Yugoslavia
ECEC Faculty
Aleksandar Bošković
Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
Ofer Dynes
Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Slavic Languages
Christopher Harwood
Senior Lecturer in Czech; Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center
Annette Insdorf
Professor, Film
Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alexander Kiossev
István Deák Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages
Rebecca Kobrin
Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies
Wojciech Kopczuk
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
László Krasznahorkai
Spring 2014 Writer in Residence
Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and Director of Columbia's Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Malgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies, Department of History
Jessica Merrill
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
Ronald Meyer
Communications Mgr.; Adj. Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Tsveta Petrova
Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science
Tomasz Piskorski
Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School
Katharina Pistor
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law; Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation; Member, Committee on Global Thought
Carol Rounds
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian, Department of Italian
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology; Director of Columbia's Center on Organizational Innovation
Dubravka Ugrešić
Fall 2015 Writer in Residence
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, Aleksandar Boskovic or Christopher Caes.
