Identity, Memory, and Civic Transformation in Post-1989 Georgia and Ukraine 

Course Co-Directors: Nino Gozalishvili (The University of Georgia, Tbilisi / The George Washington University, Washington)  and Rusudan Margiani…

The Informal Leviathan: Networks, Institutions, and the Dynamics of Control and Resistance

Course Co-Directors: Giga Zedania (Ilia State University) and Ghia Nodia (Ilia State University) The course examines how political…

Introducing the Balkans 

Course Co-Directors: Aleksandar Pavlović  (IFDT Belgrade) and Marija Mandić (University of Belgrade) The southeastern peninsula of the European…

Wars for the Yugoslav Succession and Their Contemporary Legacy in the Balkans and Beyond 

Course co-directors: Vladimir Petrović (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam) and Sven Milekić (University of…

Launched in Spring 2022, the Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) is a certificate program (offering ECTS credits) initiated by Central European University for undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA and PhD) students from Ukraine, whether residing in Ukraine or abroad, whose studies have been affected by the war. The name…

Csilla Fedinec

Csilla Fedinec

Csilla Fedinec is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of National Minorities of the Center for Social…

Stanislav Kravchenko

Stanislav Kravchenko

Stanislav Kravchenko is a Ukrainian jurist who has been serving as the President of the Supreme Court of…

Anastasiia Puhach

Anastasiia Puhach

Anastasiia Puhach is a PhD Candidate, at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). Her scientific interests include…

Mariia Dotsenko

Mariia Dotsenko

Mariia Dotsenko is a PhD student in History at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Her doctoral research…

Adrian Matus

Adrian Matus

Adrian Matus is an editor of the Democracy and Culture section in the Review of Democracy journal. He…

Olena Nikolayenko

Olena Nikolayenko

Olena Nikolayenko is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. She defended her PhD at…

Mariia Prokopenko

Mariia Prokopenko

Mariia Prokopenko is a PhD student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her dissertation title is ‘Master…

Solomiia Beska

Solomiia Beska

Solomiia Beska is a legal scholar and cybersecurity researcher specializing in information protection, cyber resilience, and hybrid warfare.…

Bohdan Krawchenko

Bohdan Krawchenko

Bohdan Krawchenko is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Afghanistan Research Initiative at the University of…

Natalia Dziadyk

Natalia Dziadyk

Natalia Dziadyk is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University and a…

Yuliia Karpets

Yuliia Karpets

Yuliia Karpets is a Ph.D. student at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.” Her research focuses on the…

Robert Person

Robert Person

Robert Person is a Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy and director of West…

Margarita Zavadskaya

Margarita Zavadskaya

Margarita Zavadskaya is a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and a researcher…

Mariana Myrosh

Mariana Myrosh

Mariana Myrosh is a Master’s student in Cultural Studies program at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her academic…

Nadiia Chervinska

Nadiia Chervinska

Nadiia is a researcher, curator, and cultural manager. She holds…

Kateryna Osypchuk

Kateryna Osypchuk

Kateryna is a History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus…

Yevhen Yashchuk

Yevhen Yashchuk

Yevhen Yashchuk is a DPhil Student in History at the…

Kateryna Lysenko

Kateryna Lysenko

Bachelor’s student in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

Nataliia Shuliakova

Nataliia Shuliakova

Bachelor’s student in History at Yale University. Research Assistant in Forced Migration…