EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: 2023 is here...and another group of students

Sunday, June 4, 2023

2023 is here...and another group of students

Over the last decade the Institute of Eastern Mediterranean Studies has grown up into a program which brings students to the Mediterranean and also brings the Mediterranean to the other side of the Atlantic. Everything has started with a group of students, who 2012 explored for the first time the culture, history, politics of the region from the central location of Chania, Crete. This year again we will start in Alikianos, Chania and explore the nexus of energy, food and water in the region, by visiting three islands, two countries in one Mediterranean.

Look forward to travels and adventures of this dynamic group of explorers.

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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.