East Central European Center
The East Central European Center trains students in the knowledge of those nations and peoples located between Germany and Russia and between the Balkan 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. Morality is Goodness
Film Screening & Discussion. Morality is Goodness
Translations of Havel’s The Memo/randum
Translations of Havel’s The Memo/randum
East Central European Center
Latest News
Past ECEC Events
Between Ellipses: Rediscovering the Life and Art of Józef Czapski
Between Ellipses: Rediscovering the Life and Art of Józef Czapski
Film Screening & Discussion. Lemon Island
Film Screening & Discussion. Lemon Island
Weaponizing Memory Politics in Hungary
Weaponizing Memory Politics in Hungary
ECEC Faculty
Aleksandar Bošković
Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian; Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center
István Deák (1926-2023)
Seth Low Professor of History, Emeritus
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
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
Ferenc Laczó
István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History
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
Daniel W. Pratt
István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages
Carol Rounds
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian, Department of Italian
Klaus Segbers
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology; Director of Columbia's Center on Organizational Innovation
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.
