We use our beautiful campus gardens in a variety of ways: student-professor football, volleyball, or badminton matches, mastering the Frisbee, sunbathing, reading or sleeping in the grass, and even treasure hunting. Elizabeth Hanka (AY, USA) proposed dining there too, and the idea expanded to that of a barbecue in the garden, which warmly welcomed everyone
Annual Conference: Whose Is That Wall?
The very first event of the Annual Conference 2009 materialized with the support of ECLA art history faculty Aya Soika and addressed one of the many features of Berlin that I find particularly fascinating –the ubiquitous street art. I became a discoverer of street art when I saw that familiar cities ‘back home’ were no longer
Annual Conference: Volker Wiese, seminar on “Legal Issues in the Restitution of Cultural Heritage”
Monday’s theme on restitution was further developed in an afternoon seminar led by Dr. Volker Wiese from Bucerius Law School. The main goal of the seminar was to examine several legal aspects of the restitution of cultural heritage. The discussion centred on the essence, as well as the legal and ethical implications, of the concept
ECLA Italy Trip
In the dawn light of Sunday, March 15, the 35 AY students embarked on a mission to trace the beginning of the Renaissance by exploring its heart — Florence. By the time the plane landed in Rome, everyone was full of excitement about what was yet to come. On our way from Rome to Florence,
A Sunday Afternoon at the Berggruen Museum
ECLA students enrolled in the elective class “Methods and Interpretations: The Visual Arts” spent an exciting afternoon at the Museum Berggruen in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district. The students confidently took up the challenge of applying visual analysis to major works of European modernism, and the museum provided a perfect setting with its works by Picasso, Matisse,
ECLA in Milan
ECLA’s day-trip to Milan, part of the weeklong study trip to Italy, was an exciting adventure in the heart of the second largest city and largest metropolitan area in Italy, also known as the world capital of design and fashion. With the virtuoso guidance of ECLA Laura Scuriatti – a native Milanese – the city’s
Charmed by Siena
We ventured out to explore Siena with Lynn Catterson and just in the midst of our tour stopped at the Piazza del Campo to watch the people and the world go by. The Sienese Duomo resembles a delicious pastel cake, but black and white marble also used in alternating stripes is etiologically linked to the
ECLA Pilgrims in Assisi
Walking through the early spring air, pierced with morning sunrays and weighted by the touch of dew, we set off on our one-day pilgrimage to Assisi. The morning train from Florence to Assisi took us away from the noise and clutter of rising markets, the rushing of people and the overall frenzy so typical of