Helen Hoffmann│helenhoffmann@outlook.com Welcome to Thesis Hell! This is what I like to call the three, five, six, maybe even more months you spend writing your Master Thesis. People have told you about this phase in your life, they have warned you, scared you and told you it will be the worst part of your student … Continue reading How to survive your MA Thesis
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王 子 Wong Tsz The German Bundestagswahl (parliamentary election) ended on 22 September. The centre-right CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union), led by Angela Merkel, won with 41.5%; the main opposition party SPD (Social Democratic Party) got only 25.7%, The Left (Die Linke) 8.6%, The Greens (Die Grünen) 8.4%, the FDP (Free Democratic Party), the … Continue reading On German Elections 2013
A professor at Seokyeong University in Seoul, South Korea, leads us through the shadow of non-literature majors approaching literature and language as a means to a brighter end. "The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible..." <Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle> Steven Justice │ stevejustice1@gmail.com … Continue reading Why read literature? “Literature helps us see the big picture!”
Oier Lobera, Adithya Pillai, Sabrina de Vivo, Carolina Froelich and María de las Cuevas This year is the 20th anniversary of the Franco-German, European Cultural television-channel ARTE, renowned for its pioneering work in intercultural broadcasting and in its aim of creating a ‘European’ TV channel. Therefore, our project for Eurocompetence II, a course module in the … Continue reading What’s in Strasbourg? ARTE, The European Cultural TV
Heather Southwood│southwood28@gmail.com In Goettingen I was one of approximately twenty Euroculture students, in Krakow that became one of nine, in Indianapolis I couldn’t sit in Starbucks on campus for long without someone I knew walking in, so when I made the decision to return to Krakow for my fourth semester, as one of three I … Continue reading Second Time a Charm?
The press often portrays the European Union (EU) as a remote, almost foreign authority which makes decisions and forces them on its member states. As a consequence, it often fails to portray the power of the member states in the EU decision-making process. This debate involves two concepts: supranationalism and intergovernmentalism. Supranationalism refers to a large … Continue reading Introducing the European Union: Between Supranationalism and Intergovernmentalism
Having a Muslim woman in our midst, we as the second semester Krakow girls were dying to find out what it felt like for our classmate to be a Muslim woman in Poland. Floor Boele van Hensbroek│floorbvh@gmail.com Having a Muslim woman in our midst while living in one of the most homogeneous countries in Europe, … Continue reading Muslim for One Day
Euroculture Uppsala has been one of the most popular universities in the MA Euroculture Consortium, when it comes to the number of students it attracts every semester. Rumor has it, ‘Ben’ might be the answer. The Euroculturer has invited Benjamin Martin, Programme Directer and Teacher of MA Euroculture at Uppsala University to ask about his … Continue reading Teacher Benjamin Martin “What’s special about Uppsala University? Well, we’re the oldest and coldest!”
Penelope Vaxevanes│prosiliomani@hotmail.com MA Euroculture Programme is over for the 2011 – 2013 students and now most of them are on the hunt for a job or an internship – their gateway into the professional world. There are a few among those students who do not have to do this because they have already secured a … Continue reading Archive 2013 || Professional tips from a EuCu graduate: “Blindly applying for jobs everywhere is a waste of time!”
What does it mean to be European when you live in a non-European country? Read this personal definition of Europe, written from India.
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