Midway through the International Summer University students and faculty will travel to Dresden. The trip will serve as an on-site exploration of European cultural, intellectual, and political history that complements the lectures and seminars of the first three weeks. It will also provide students with an opportunity to pause and reflect on what they have
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ECLA Celebrates the Conclusion of its Third Academic Year
ECLA celebrated the end of its third full academic year with a series of events designed to give the entire community an opportunity to recognize Academy and Project Year students. The final week of the term began with public oral presentations from each of the Project Year students (see Students Present Research Projects to Fellow
Students Present Research Projects to Fellow Students, Faculty
ECLA’s thirteen Project Year students presented the final version of their research projects in a two-day event capping the Project Year programme at ECLA. Students’ research topics were as varied as the specialisations of ECLA faculty and ranged from the poetry of Francesco Petrarca through the philosophy of Heidegger to the dangers of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Project
Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift Speaks at ECLA
On June 30th, ECLA welcomed Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift to our campus for a guest lecture about her extraordinary experiences as a journalist. Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine and appears regularly as a panelist on the nationally (US) syndicated talkshow “The McLaughlin Group.” Her column, “Capitol Letter,” is posted each week on
ECLA Sponsors First Off-Campus Artistic Production with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
According to the programme notes to the production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which played in Prenzlauer Berg this weekend, “the play evokes the motive of a humanist enlightened search for coherency in a seemingly postmodern fragmented world.” It is perhaps then no surprise that two of the directors/actors in the production are ECLA
Students from Former USSR States Search for Identity in Documentary Film
Maria Veyts (Russia, 2004-5) and Anna Bitkina (Russia, 2003-4) took an introspective look at one of ECLA’s prominent cultural components this semester in their film Lost & Found. In the film, the two young directors try to uncover the identities of their schoolmates from former Soviet Union Republics. In the interviews presented in the documentary, the students discuss several aspects
ECLA to Close Third Academic Year with Celebration in Pankow Town Hall
On the 22nd of June ECLA will celebrate the closing of the academic year 2004-2005 in the beautiful ‘Ratssaal’ of the Town Hall of Pankow. The building was constructed in 1902, in the middle of a population boom that made Pankow – previously a small town outside of Berlin – into a contiguous district of
ECLA Hosts EU-Parliament Simulation as Part of the 2005 Annual Conference
With students from over 20 countries, there is no better place to hold a simulation of the European Parliament than ECLA. The topic of debate at the simulation held here last week was Turkey’s candidacy for membership in the EU – part of the overarching theme of this year’s Annual Conference: EU Enlargement. More than ten students traveled from universities across the continent to