The Montreal Central European Studies Workshop brings together university professors and graduate students of Central Europe who are based in the vicinity of Montreal for intellectual exchange on and professional networking. The workshop is open to participants from a broad array of fields, including literature, language, history, cultural and film studies, musicology, philosophy, and political science. At the core of the bilingual (English-French) workshop is the invigorating and collegial discussions of participants’ short, pre-circulated position papers that address one of the workshop’s central themes. The workshop eschews formal panel presentations in favor of more democratic group discussions of these papers.