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RECENT NEWS AND PRESS RELEASES

Feb. 20, 2012

THOMAS ROMMEL
The influence of literature on popular discourse, and more surprisingly, the dependence that a society has on this discourse, came to light in a lecture by Professor Thomas Rommel of Jacobs University. ... more
Feb. 20, 2012

"DEMOCRATIZE ECONOMY"
On February 1st, ECLA Professor Bruno Macaes led the first winter term meeting of the Politics Club regarding the Eurozone crisis. Bruno is currently a senior policy adviser to Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. ... more
Feb. 17, 2012

Nazified Nietzsche
On January 30th, Max Whyte (University of Chicago) gave a lecture at ECLA entitled "Nietzsche and the Third Reich", in which he presented and analyzed some of the ways in which Nietzsche's philosophy was used for the political purposes of the German National Socialists. ... more

"HAPPY HOUR IN HARSH WINTER"
JENNIFER CLARVOE'S POETRY READING AT ECLA
February 9, 2012
Aurelia Cojocaru (2nd year BA, Moldova)
After the lecture for the Forms of Love 1st year core course, Jennifer Clarvoe came back on January 24th, to give a public reading of her works. What our professor David Hayes announced in the beginning of his laudatio took me by surprise: it was the first ever proper poetry reading at ECLA...more

"YOU BE GOOD, SEE YOU TOMORROW, I LOVE YOU"
February 7, 2012
Maria Androushko (1st year BA, Bulgaria)
On January 23rd, ECLA was happy to welcome Jennifer Clarvoe, poet and professor at Kenyon College, to talk about Ovid's Amores, one of the poetic texts for our core class Forms of Love...more