Anne Kurzweg | anne.kurzweg@gmail.com It was during the Intensive Programme in Bilbao when the thought “Let’s have a common graduation!” came up. The idea arose in the middle of a process that tied us, the 2011-2013 MA Euroculture students, closer together but which, at the same time, marked already half-time on the Master programme’s clock. … Continue reading Take Action – A Common Graduation Ceremony for Euroculturers
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Most of Europe’s popular music is made in either the United States or Great Britain, or is at least influenced greatly by American and British popular music, if only for the fact that a lot of popular music in non-English-speaking Europe is, nonetheless, sung in English. Some countries even try to battle this trend: the French … Continue reading Favourite European Songs : “Dickes B reminds me of my adventures in Berlin”
ATKA ATUN | atka_brozek@yahoo.com Since my pre-teens I’ve gone through obesity, bulimia, being overweight, being underweight, reaching my perfect BMI, and being overweight again. I guess I can honestly say that my relationship with food is long, complicated and sometimes toxic. Being a good Polish woman I still love food and will stay with it … Continue reading Food vs. Life
“The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word” – J. Irwin Miller Eunjin Jeong │eunjin.lynn@gmail.com I wasn’t surprised when I found myself in Copenhagen in early October to participate in the Human[i]ties Perspective12 conference at Roskilde University, Denmark. Having learned that the HP12 team, currently led … Continue reading Archive 2012 || Finding an Alumnus (2) – The Journey Continues
Ludmila Vávrová | lidavavrova@gmail.com What is it that reflects the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana the most? It is the ‘red pickup truck’. In my very first picture of Indianapolis, I captured this favourite car of the ‘typical Indian resident’. I was wondering, why is it so popular here? My American classmates … Continue reading Indianapolis: upholding “Hoosier values”
Sytske Ottink | sytskeot@hotmail.com A long, long time ago an Indian girl was married to a man living in a country far, far away called Germany. She expected to be treated as a princess because she would be a guest in that country and in India guests are treated as royalty. This is the story … Continue reading Cinderella Complex – A Story from Pune
I come from a big city in Pakistan but I enjoy roaming around in this small, accessible town. Don’t get me wrong: I’d be the last person to categorise Bilbao as ‘provincial’, but it is, for some amazing reason, free of the worries of life in a big town. The people are happier, the air … Continue reading An Ode to Bilbao
Miriam Beschoten | miriam.beschoten@gmx.de Kraków, Poland. What is the first thing that comes into your mind when hearing this? Well for me, as a German, it definitely painted a different picture from what I actually experienced while spending my second semester of the MA Euroculture programme there. Starting with the architecture, I expected to see … Continue reading Feel Truely European in Beautiful Kraków
Lili Jiang | ljiang1120@gmail.com I am a Master’s student from Sichuan University, China, majoring in Applied Linguistics. Last year, I was lucky enough to get an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. When I got a chance to choose a host university, I chose the University of Göttingen as my host university and MA Euroculture programme as my … Continue reading Greetings From Sichuan: Five Things I Miss Most About Göttingen
ATKA ATUN | atka_brozek@yahoo.com In the old park, in ice and snow caught fast Two spectres walk, still searching for the past. Journey into the Past is a book about love, anger and shame. The protagonist, Ludwig, a twenty-three year old man from a poor background, becomes a Councillor’s private secretary, moves into his mansion and … Continue reading In a Relationship with…Stefan Zweig
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