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
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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
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 Alumni Building Network on ‘Curiosity,’ ‘Friendship’ and ‘Creativity’
Alumni contacts at ECLA have been strong since the first class left the campus in 2000: former students from all programmes have used email groups, small reunions and the ECLA web site to keep in touch with the closely-knit community they participated in at ECLA. To take this project one step further, alums Siret Paju (Estonia, AY03, PY04), Martin
ECLA Alumna Founds Non-Profit Organization to Help Guatemalan Children
Three years ago, Fiamma Rupp-Gembs spent a year in Guatemala volunteering in the garbage dumps of Guatemala City. In her time there, she recognized a gap in the assistance offered by existing aid programmes in the country: she wished that an organization would be created that would involve more intercultural exchange and communication. A year later, she founded her own aid