Please, note that there will be no ISU in 2012.

ECLA's International Summer University is a unique intellectual adventure that takes place for six weeks in July and August of each year. Great texts of European intellectual history and eternal questions about the human condition are discussed day and night, not only after lectures and movies or during seminars and tutorials, but also over meals, on or off campus, with the professors or just among students. The small seminar groups, the weekly essays, the individual attention in one-to-one tutorials, and the close-knit international community of students and faculty, who live together on campus throughout the programme, provide the framework for the joy of this intellectual experience.

Over the years, the summer university has dealt with many different themes, which reflect the pertinent issues of that moment in time while engaging with landmark cultural texts and ideas.