Commission on Eastern Europe

The commission emerged from within the Central Europe Commission, which had been formed two years earlier. Though it studies all of the countries of eastern Europe, the research specialisations of its members mean that Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are now the commission’s primary areas of interest. It strives in its research to take account of the broadest spectrum of issues related to the region’s past and present, including archaeology, history, literature, religion, art, languages, and sociological and political questions.
The commission’s activities are not restricted to seminars alone. It also organises conferences (e.g. Lemkos and Lemko Studies in Poland and Forms of Patriotism in Eastern Europe) and panel discussions. Volumes addressing single and multiple themes have appeared in the commission’s proceedings, which are edited by Andrzej A. Zięba.

Commission Members