ECLA Week in Winter Term this year featured guest lecturers Eduardo Velasquez (Washington and Lee University) and Levent Soysal, who has been a regular visitor to ECLA since year-round teaching began in 2002. Velasquez spoke and led a seminar on the play Copenhagen, while Soysal lectured on immigration cultures in Berlin. A site visit to the heavily Turkish neighborhoods
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ECLA Students Work with Prominent Romanian Faculty Member
Through his numerous appearances on political and cultural talk shows in Romania, and through his writing as editorialist for the daily paper Ziua, Theodor Paleologu is a personality quickly recognized by many of his countrymen. His busy schedule includes teaching a full load of classes at ECLA and supervision of three Project Year students. Ionut Lacusta, for instance,
ECLA’s German Classes Bring Students Face-to-Face with German History
Dirk Deichfuss has lived in all three variations of Berlin over the last two decades: in the 80’s he was a student in East Berlin, in 1989 he escaped to West Berlin, and six months later he lived in the unified city. No wonder the German instructor’s excursions to local sites are so popular. Last quarter,
David Levine’s Performance Class Ends Autumn Term with Production of “Four Seminars”
Finding four rooms full of students discussing labour, acting, and ethics in Kazan’s “On the Waterfront” would not usually surprise a visitor to ECLA. On Wednesday night, however, the students in the seminars were acting – speaking memorized lines originally said by other students and then transcribed into scripts. Audience members circulated in and out of the rooms and observed the looped performances,
ECLA Week
Fifth week of Autumn quarter is ECLA Week. During this week special events and seminars are scheduled that focus on the ECLA community and special resources for students. The week opens with a lecture from Wayne C. Thompson on the expansion of the European Union. Other events include a trip to a concert of the German