“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
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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
Edith Salminen | edithsalminen@gmail.com When I was asked whether I would like to be involved in The Euroculturer magazine as the Food Section Editor, I didn’t hesitate for a second in saying "yes". I couldn’t believe that I, out of all people, had been contacted for this purpose. One of many reasons why I was so … Continue reading Why I Cry of Happiness Over Delicious Food
Heather Southwood | southwood28@gmail.com “From somewhere different?” “Like Europe?” “No, not like Europe”* *War of the Worlds Maybe it’s all psychological or maybe it’s just that America is so much bigger but, for some reason, in the run up to my trip, it seemed like a huge undertaking. There was so much to do, so much … Continue reading A Luxury: Lack of Borders
Emilie Lambiel | emlambiel@hotmail.com Udine is a small city situated in the northeast part of Italy, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. It is close to Venice (2 hours by train) and very close to the Austrian and Slovenian borders. The region has two official languages: Italian and Friulian, a Rhaeto-Romanic language. The city of Udine has … Continue reading Euroculture in Udine, Bella Italia
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