It is easy just to be proud when you realise how many people are willing to know about your home country. ‘Because it is France. It is ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’. An ideal that cannot ring true to everybody if one does not have the same rights. On the 6th of May 2012, from a little city in Italy … Continue reading Hoping to be proud
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I have been lucky enough to travel around the Balkans a lot. It’s not just the region I come from but also a beautiful place, even if often underappreciated as a tourist destination outside of its seaside resorts. It also offers some of the best food you would ever try, and foodies from around the … Continue reading Dobro doshli!* To the Balkans and Enjoy Your Stay!
If my experience with culture shock has taught me anything, it’s that I’ll just have to sit it out. Still, my head can’t tell my heart to be happy. Albert Meijer | albert_meijer@hotmail.com I take my coffee to a table that looks out over the university campus. In many ways, this square could be anywhere … Continue reading Juggling Culture Shock
Packing every semester, leaving everything behind and starting the process all over again is something that you love or you just get tired of. How long can you keep going? For some MA Euroculture fellows, the period of the Master programme is already too much. For others, it is just the start of a long-lasting … Continue reading “We don’t say goodbye” – Long Distance Friendships: Can They Work?
From 28-31 October 2012, the MA Euroculture Groningen class went on an excursion to Brussels. Armed with cameras, (digital) compasses, and semi-rested minds due to the previous week’s reading week (which was by most interpreted as a relaxing holiday), we set off for the six-hour train ride and waved goodbye to some of our teachers. … Continue reading Euroculture Groningen Class on a Mission: Exploring the Brussels Jungle
Eunjin Jeong │eunjin.lynn@gmail.com To my surprise, I was a bit tongue-tied when I first met Alex in front of Pushkin’s statue in Pushkin Square, Moscow on a Sunday afternoon. He was emitting aura which made me forget what I had prepared to say. What am I doing in Moscow? Unfortunately, it seemed like I couldn’t … Continue reading Archive 2012 || Finding an Alumnus (1) – A Journey to Moscow
The Euroculturer interviews Lora Markova, the winner of the 2012 ALBA (Annual Liesbeth Brouwer Award) Thesis Prize. We all saw her being awarded with the prize during the Gala dinner at the Intensive Programme in Bilbao this summer. We know that the award is a great asset for one’s academic future, not to mention a … Continue reading Winning ALBA Thesis Prize : ”Try to use Chekhov’s Gun”
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
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
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