EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Saturday, June 25, 2016

June 21st 2016

Something I was surprised to see in both Athens and Crete was the amount of graffiti. I wasn't expecting there to be graffiti on almost every garage door and on most of the walls. What I really like and find to be very interesting is that the graffiti all seem to have a significance to them. A lot of the graffiti also seems to reflect the current emotions being felt at the grassroots level of Greece.

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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.