With the beginning of academic year 2010/11, CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions (2004/5–2009/10) appears in a new format. Reflecting the recent exciting growth of CEU faculty in the field of eastern Mediterranean studies, the center re-named itself the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS). With a senior membership of seventeen drawn from a wide range of CEU teaching units, CEMS constitutes the university’s largest research center; it is the only one with a focus predominantly on the pre-modern to (early) modern periods.