EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Recap for the past week:

On June 16th I arrived in Athens after six days in Rome. I got into the first cab available and luckily I got wonderful driver. He immediately began correcting my greek but beyond that he pointed out major tourist sites. My first impression was how much more modern Athens was in comparison. I was not necessarily expecting crumbling marble on every corner but after the ornate architecture in Rome I was expecting more details in the buildings. Once I got to the hotel and met up with everyone my next observation was how good ALL the food was. Thanks to Petros for ordering twenty plates for 6 people, and thanks to the Greeks for the endless bread baskets.

Overall Athens was a great start to the trip and getting to know everybody.

Catch y'all on the flip side

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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.