“Every ending marks a new beginning” Dear ECLA, It has been two months since the close of the fall semester. My fellow first year classmates and I departed on a brisk day in December from the Tegel International Airport bound for the States. Despite my preparation, I could not evade the initial shock of returning
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Postcard From New York
Dear ECLA, This is to proudly share I graduated from Columbia this weekend. The ceremony was outstanding, with an inspiring speech by Kofi Annan. The speech is here. I would like to thank you for my time at ECLA before Columbia. While I have undoubtedly learned a lot this year, it all fell in place
Blog Workshop: Read, write & publish online
‘I have nothing to say, but I say it regularly’ was the amusing end note used by Evgeny Morozov for the workshop on blogs and podcasting. As a former student of ECLA, who now works with bloggers and journalists from Central Asia and the rest of ex-USSR, Evgeny returned during the ECLA Week with a
ECLA Welcomes Back Alumni at Reunion Weekend
In the middle of World Cup madness, ECLA welcomed close to 100 alumni back to campus for its first-ever alumni reunion. The majority of attendees came from Europe, but several alumni like Kenny Tan (ISU 2004, Singapore) and Anisa Shaikh (AY 2004, Pakistan) traveled long distances to attend the weekend event. Alumni were assigned to
ECLA Prepares for its First Alumni Reunion
This summer over a hundred alumni will return to Berlin and reunite with former classmates and professors during ECLA’s first-ever Alumni Reunion, scheduled to take place June 29 – July 2, 2006. At the opening dinner on Friday, President Laurent Boetsch and Provost Emeritus Richard Shriver expect to welcome alumni and professors from every Summer
ECLA Celebrates the Conclusion of its Third Academic Year
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
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 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