EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Generational Progress

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Generational Progress

Cavafy says that the passing of time does not directly correlate with the progress of society. States cannot expect to keep reinventing themselves over and over, instead previous innovations must be built on. The same systemic problems that are being faced today were once contemporary in societies of the past, therefore, people should look to the past and find applicable situations. At the Mills of Crete, we learned that the collection of businesses worked with each other with preexisting knowledge and technology for the benefit of all. We have discussed multiple times that the places we have seen were largely built over the span of numerous lifetimes. A single lifetime is insignificant when compared to the grandeur that is empires like the Romans who build over many generations. A collective with knowledge of the past is able to make significant changes for the future.

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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.