EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: The Art Exhibit Visit

Thursday, July 14, 2016

The Art Exhibit Visit

I really enjoyed this trip to the art exhibit! A lot of the art pieces seemed to have root-looking structures and people. It was interesting to hear all the different interpretations of the paintings.

This art piece was my favorite. It looks as though a person is being hold down by roots (family, tradition, cultural norms) but still manages to get out of the tangled mess.

Danny also really enjoyed this painting!!!!!!!

Good times with good people!

1 comment:

UnknownJuly 14, 2016 at 1:26 PM
Hey Sonja! I felt the same way with the painting which looks like roots that symbolize the generations prior and how this person was able to escape through much hard work.
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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.