ALUMNI ON ECLA
Adina ScortescuRomania I first came to ECLA for the summer university because I needed an efficient broken-heart remedy; then I returned home for one year to finish my journalism studies. I came back for the academic year with the conviction that journalism is not my thing and that I should explore my other interests. I stayed for the project year thinking it would be a good preparation for a Master’s
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Partly because of its size but primarily because of its teaching philosophy, ECLA offers a very unique, invaluable educational experience. Due to its intensity, enthusiasm, curiosity and sheer breadth of research interests, the academic environment that I encountered there could not really compare to anything I had experienced before coming to Berlin.
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Would forlorn hope be the term to qualify the attempt of communicating something with words that can’t be understood but by living it? Well, I won’t deliver an explanation of how some things at ECLA really are beyond words, nor will I be content to get down to those elements that are easily accessible to them
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TANIA BARRERA, USA
Attended: ISU 2008, AY 2008/09
Currently: Majoring in Philosophy (2010), MCLA
"Second Home" (MCLA News, 18 November 2009)
KAROLINA LEWESTAM, Poland
Attended: Academy Year 2002/03 & Project Year 2003/04Currently: PhD student, Philosophy, Boston University
The ECLA experience has made me a different person. (more)
DIANA MARIAN, Romania
Attended: Academy Year 2002/03 & Project Year 2003/04
Currently: PhD student, Political Theory, New York University
ECLA is a place for doubters and seekers who insist on seeing the world in terms of problems rather than methods. (more)
MARIA MOCANU, Moldova
Attended: Academy Year 2004/05 & Project Year 2005/06
Currently: Student, Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven
ECLA was the final impetus for deciding that instead of returning to my home university to finish a BA in an 'empirical facts'-intensive subject, I would start over and turn to philosophy. (more)
ELIZA SUBOTOWICZ, Poland
Attended: International Summer University 2002, Academy Year 2002/03 & Project Year 2003/04
Currently: Film Directing, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York
My understanding of the concept of liberal arts was rather vague at the time but I caught on very quickly fascinated by the idea of “totality” of knowledge. (more)
FLORIAN HOFFMAN, Germany
Attended: Academy Year 02/03 & Project Year 03/04
Currently: MPhil, Politics and International Relations, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
My time at ECLA influenced my thinking in that I keep trying to reflect upon canonical answers from alternative, diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives. (more)
ANISA SHAIKH, Pakistan
Attended: Academy Year 03/04
Currently: Acting & Directing; Film Studies, Lahore
From those first few moments in Berlin I knew instantly that this was going to be a year I will possibly never forget. (more)
Joseph Ollapally, India
Attended: Project Year 2004
Currently: Entrepreneur
When I reflect on my year at ECLA the feeling that dominates is a certain sense of space. Every element of ECLA seems to carry this feel. (more)