With students from over 20 countries, there is no better place to hold a simulation of the European Parliament than ECLA. The topic of debate at the simulation held here last week was Turkey’s candidacy for membership in the EU – part of the overarching theme of this year’s Annual Conference: EU Enlargement. More than ten students traveled from universities across the continent to
John Guarino, CEO of Coca-Cola Germany, Speaks at ECLA on Corporate Image, Distribution
ECLA brought students face-to-face with some of the world’s most experienced and successful businesspeople for the third consecutive year as part of the 2005 ECLA Business Seminars programme. The programme ran over a period of three weeks and featured one week-long session each on cash flow and marketing, plus three guest speakers (more about Business
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
“The Impotence of Reason”- Susan Neiman, Philosopher and Director of the Einstein Forum, on Hume´s “Dialogues”
On Monday, 28 February 2005, ECLA´s academic community welcomed Susan Neiman for a guest lecture on Hume´s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Professor Neiman´s talk was part of a two-week theme on Faith and Reason in the Academy Year´s core course in intellectual history. Neiman is author of Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
ECLA Week Features Guest Lecturers Eduardo Velasquez and Levent Soysal
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
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
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,