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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Past ECEC Events
May 15 @ 12:00 pm
May 7 @ 12:00 pm
April 21 @ 6:00 pm
April 14 @ 12:00 pm
February 17 @ 6:00 pm
December 5, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
ECEC Faculty
2021-2022 (Spring) Monika Baár
2022 (Spring) István Deák Visiting Professor
Aleksandar Bošković
Senior Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
Mircea Cărtărescu
Writer in Residence
2021-2022 (Fall) David Do Paço
Istvan Deak Visting Professor
Ofer Dynes
Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Department of Slavic Languages
2024-2025 (Fall) Gábor Egry
2024 (Fall) Istvan Deak Visiting Professor in the Department of History
2022-2023 (Fall) Marcel Garboś
2022 (Fall) István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor
Christopher Harwood
Senior Lecturer in Czech
Annette Insdorf
Professor, Film
Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
2022-2023 (Spring) Alexander Kiossev
2023 (Spring) 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
2023-2024 (Spring) Ferenc Laczó
2024 (Spring) István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History
Agnieszka Legutko
Senior Lecturer in Yiddish; Director of the Yiddish Language Program
Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies; Director of Columbia's Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Malgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies, Department of History
Jessica Merrill
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Tsveta Petrova
Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science
Katharina Pistor
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law; Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation; Member, Committee on Global Thought
2023-2024 (Fall) Daniel W. Pratt
2023 (Fall) István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages
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.
