EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Split in Time

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Split in Time

When living in the US, it’s easy to forget about how popular some of the tv shows, news outlets, and other forms of media can be. Live streams premier on sites like YouTube and Twitch throughout the day in the US, but many of the times these shows or videos are broadcaster are during times when Europeans sleep. For those that speak English and enjoy American shows, playing catch up is the only option. For us, we would’ve had to stay up to watch a several hour long debate at 4:00 in the morning. It’s a very strange experience to come to that realization. There’s almost an element of disenfranchisement with connecting to your culture back home if you’re an American. This isn’t really something I’ve thought about before, but now that I’m aware of it I’m sure I’ll consider it more frequently.

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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.