EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Monday, July 4, 2016

Monday July 4th,
Happy Independence Day to all,
Today we visited the botanical gardens, and despite my poor choice in footwear the day was a success. The garden was living proof of how you can maintain a successful park/garden sustainably. Our discussion then supported this with all the ways we could be more eco friendly as consumers, producers, and policymakers. While there is obviously lots of flaws in our current system, the concept of a circular economy is promising and the potential is huge. Both the lecture and the fruit were amazing so I would say the outing was a success. Can't wait to celebrate tonight, and hopefully their is no revolution over the playlist.

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.