On 21 November 2007, Kristin Voigt, assistant professor, European College of Liberal Arts, held a seminar based on her article, ‘Individual Choice and Unequal Participation in Higher Education’. The presentation of the article was followed by a discussion that gathered students and professors of ECLA. ‘Individual Choice and Unequal Participation in Higher Education’ considers the
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Dr. Klaus Corcilius on ‘instrumentalization of virtue’ in Plato’s Republic
On 12 November 2007 Dr. Klaus Corcilius of Humboldt University presented a guest lecture on Plato’s Republic and the ‘instrumentalization of virtue’ at the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA). Instrumentalization is, simply put, to use a thing with an intrinsic end for a purpose extrinsic to itself (the example, for clarity, of using a
Martin Ruehl on “Thomas Mann and the Italian Renaissance in Fin-de-Siecle Germany”
The fifth week of Winter Term was started with a guest lecture by Martin Ruehl. Martin – an intellectual historian – studied in Cambridge and Princeton, and is teaching at the University of Cambridge. He visited ECLA for the first time several years ago, presenting a lecture on Nietzsche. He was obviously thrilled to be
ECLA Guest Lectures: Lynn Catterson on “Renaissance Style and the Antique”; Denise Budd on “Medici Patronage”
The art historical component of ECLA’s Academy Year core course on Renaissance Florence was inaugurated in style on the 9th of January with a pair of lectures by Lynn Catterson and Denise Budd, both scholars of Renaissance art visiting from the United States. Professor Catterson, who teaches at Columbia University, has written on fifteenth-century Florentine
Dr. Sean Allan – History, Memory and Fantasy in ‘Good Bye Lenin!’
Ostalgie is a German term composed of Ost (East) and Nostalgie (nostalgia). It refers to the history and culture of the GDR, and relates to former East Berlin – the current location of ECLA. The film screening of ‘Good Bye Lenin!’ followed by the guest lecture by Dr. Sean Allan from the University of Warwick
Anthony Price on ‘Tragedy’
Anthony Price from Birkbeck College, University of London visited ECLA to give two guest lectures (4th and 6th December) on the theme of tragedy in Book X of Plato’s Republic and in Aristotle’s Poetics. Price has published extensively on ethics and moral psychology in ancient-Greek literature and he professes an academic interest in the ‘epistemology
A Musical Opening to ISU
Two guest lectures visited ECLA during the first week of International Summer University. On Monday, July 17th, Violeta Dinescu presented her lecture: ‘On Tabu’. Dinescu has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been successfully performed and recorded across Europe. She wrote the film score for F.W. Murnau’s Tabu, which was
Marvin Carlson Gives Guest Lecture as Part of ECLA’s Performance Elective
On Friday, May 19th, Marvin Carlson gave a guest lecture at ECLA entitled, ‘Speaking in Tongues: Multiple Languages on the Modern Stage’. The lecture was most relevant for students taking David Levine’s Performance elective this term: Acting Shakespeare. Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Center of the City University of