The topic of this year’s ECLA Annual Conference was social entrepreneurship – a term quite recently adopted by both the business and academic worlds. Through their involvement, the students explored approaches to resolving social issues and forming a self-sustainable business plan. In more general terms, it helped students understand how to put theory into practice.
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Social Entrepreneurship Project Competition
During ECLA’s Annual Conference, students developed projects dedicated to social entrepreneurship. Following presentations by the three competing teams, the winning project was announced on Friday. It proposed setting up a youth radio station in the Georgian district of Marneuli. It was conceived by Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi and Leah Whitman-Salkin and developed by Mariam Gagoshashvili, Firuza Ganieva,
Life after ECLA
The time has come to think about the future, as we are now only 8 weeks away from the end of the academic year. With this in mind, the students are facing important decisions about their professional and academic careers. However, the fog may clear if instead of wondering about what the future holds we
Gallery of Suffering: ‘Schmerz’ (pain) in Hamburger Bahnhof
A visit to the Hamburger Bahnhof was incorporated into the course on Human-Animal Relations in Historical Perspective, as part of an ongoing discussion of the capacity to feel pain and to suffer as criteria for the ethical consideration of animals. The exhibition, simply entitled Schmerz runs from April to August, 2007. On display was an
Viewpoints: Acting Workshop
Students who showed up for the acting workshop given by actor David Barlow last week, might have expected anything. But surely they didn’t expect that “VIEWPOINTS: a physical, dance-based approach to making theater” would involve two hours of simply… walking. Walking, running, stopping and sitting on the floor, trying not to bump into each other.
Who’s Afraid of Abstract Art?
Standing in front of Barnett Newman’s Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? for twenty minutes in a row is a demanding activity. Two large squares of bright red and yellow, divided by a vertical stripe of dark blue is a perfect choice to start discussing abstract art. The Neue Nationalgalerie, made of glass, marble
Last Day in Rome
After several days in Florence, Rome was a sudden change from medieval or Renaissance architecture to the Baroque. Bearing this in mind, the last day of the Italy Exeat was a lesson on what came after the Renaissance. We were very lucky that the Villa Borghese, a building formerly not open to the public, opened
Italy Trip: Special Report – Visit to Assisi and Perugia
During the Italy trip we were offered the opportunity to visit Assisi and Perugia. The trip took us to the region of Umbria, famous for being the “green heart of Italy” because it has no access to the sea. In the past the two cities fought long wars over conflicing political affiliations: Assisi aligned itself with