EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Friday, July 15, 2016

July 8th, 2016

Today we got to go to go to a women's cooperative named Penelope Gandhi at the University of the Mountains . Their work there is incredible and the lecture we were given was also very inspiring. The looms that the women make by hand were so incredibly intricate and colorful. What amazed me was that they were all unique because every year the material used to make the rugs and the blankets are all handpicked. We all got to try the loom out, even Prof. Vamvakas! It was a really nice experience and the people that welcomed us there were so incredibly kind to us. I'm very thankful that I was able to have this experience.

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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.