EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Friday, July 15, 2016

It was really sad to leave Crete. I didn’t think I would miss it as much as I do. The hospitality in Alikianos is nothing I’ve experienced before. The women there were nothing less than superheroes. You could ask them for anything and they would get it for you. Kapsomenos is killing it for being 80 years old. I could not believe he was able to dance the way he did on that last night. The music that they played the last two nights was incredible. You cannot hear music like that in the states. Overall, being in Crete is something I will never forget.

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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.