On March 1st, a group of ECLA students, faculty and staff made their way to the Neue Nationalgalerie amidst long queues of eager spectators, where an exhibit of works by famous German artist Gerhard Richter was being held. The visit was part of ECLA’s Berlin Programme where members of the college pay visits to the city’s
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Tutti Contenti, Saremo Cosi: The Marriage of Figaro at Staatsoper Berlin
As part of the Forms of Love core course, on February 26th students and professors attended a showing of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Staatsoper Berlin at Schiller Theatre. In conjunction with this, Professor Geoff Lehman organized a preparatory discussion on the piece’s creative use of music to illuminate the narrative. The Marriage of
Richard Kraut asks: What is Good and Why?
On the 22nd of February ECLA hosted a lecture by Professor Richard Kraut on his book What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (Harvard UP 2007). Richard Kraut is a Professor at Northwestern University. His interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy, as well as the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato and
Let’s Play a Love Game
On the 23rd February, the AY and BA1’s regular Thursday seminar session was replaced with a plenary session on modern music and love, which was held in the lecture hall and coordinated by seminar leaders Brendan Boyle and David Hayes. After we had spent the previous sessions on the Song of Songs and old Hispano-Arabic
What is an Image? James Elkins’ Lecture at ICI Berlin
On February 16th at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, gave a lecture titled “What is an image?” The talk was based on a book of the same title issued in
Annual Conference: Technology and Dissent
Between February 6 and 10 2012, ECLA held its annual “Annual Conference”: an event devoted to current global issues in which guest lecturers, ECLA faculty and students explore a particular theme in a series of lectures, panel sessions and seminars. This year the topic was “Censorship” and its connection to the state, religious belief, institutions
Rommel on Sympathy, Self-interest and Literature’s Significance
The influence of literature on popular discourse, and more surprisingly, the dependence that a society has on this discourse, came to light in a January 31st lecture by Professor Thomas Rommel of Jacobs University. During the 18th Century Britain became a primary site for the intensifying relationship between political and cultural concerns. Eventually these concerns
Bruno Macaes: Democratize the economy!
On February 1st, ECLA Professor Bruno Macaes led the first winter term meeting of the Politics Club regarding the Eurozone crisis. Bruno is currently a senior policy adviser to Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and is on leave from his teaching duties at ECLA. Bruno’s firsthand account of the inner workings of Portuguese politics