On the morning of 13th of October, a small group of ECLA students gathered at the Platanenstrasse tram station, the majority of which preparing to go on a trip for their classes – Introduction to Human Rights with Prof. Kerry Bystrom, and Berlin: An Experiment in Modernity with Prof. Florian Becker. The destination: Sachsenhausen Concentration
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Bard to Berlin
After a year of living a “choose your own adventure” lifestyle (highlights include but are not limited to: learning the proper way to slaughter a chicken in the south of France, running from a wild boar, catching a swarm of honeybees in the 19th district of Paris, and the serendipitous meeting of a member of
Coming Home
I completed the Academy Year programme at the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) in the summer of 2011. This fall, I returned to ECLA for the BA program. During the whole recent year, I worked with a theatre group and also taught theatre skills back home in Pakistan. Working in the theatre industry required
Willkommen in Berlin!
Each year ECLA of Bard introduces its students to the city’s dynamic past and present, in an exciting and diverse 3-day programme led by faculty, staff, and alumni. This year’s large selection of walking tours presented new and returning students alike with the cumbersome task of making their choices. The programme featured a poetry night,
“Leaders come and go, but you are here to stay”
On June 7th, Chancellor Merkel of Germany, PM Cameron of the UK and PM Stoltenbergof Norway took a break from their busy schedules to discuss the future of global and German democracy with local and international students studying in Berlin. This meeting was part of a bigger initiative aimed at creating a series of dialogues
The 7th Berlin Biennale: political enough
On the 19th of May a group of ECLA students attended a guided tour of some of the events of the 7th Berlin Biennale.The interest that I had in the event (I saw the first promotion materials in September 2011) had only increased to that day. Plus, since the beginning (27th of April 2012), I
Carnival of Cultures
As the countdown to leaving ECLA—and for most of us, Berlin—is left with a zero in front of the month units, everyone is trying to use the remaining days, hours and minutes to cross off as many “to do and visit while in Berlin” entries that might have been postponed during the cold winter months.
A Long, Dramatic Night in Berlin
Saturday the 28th of April was Berlin’s fourth annual Lange Nacht der Opern und Theater: the ‘long night of opera and theatre’. With 57 venues putting on over 150 performances within a single five-hour window, the event seemed to scream “Look at me, I’m cultural” so loudly that no self-respecting Berliner-hipster (or Liberal Arts student) could