Seminars and Projects
“Franco was a serious dictatorship. No bullshit.”
After a well-deserved night of rest we awoke to the second day of the seminar. Today’s agenda was exploring the concept of cultural exile, and what better way to do that than to head off to a place that is closely ... (more)
Exile Stories VI: Madrid – 30 years ago…
On the evening of the 24th of July 2011 20 young Europeans met in Madrid in order to discuss „EXILE” in Europe. But we won’t be the first ones as Laura from Latvia found out: About 30 years ago Madrid had already been a... (more)
Day one under the Madrid sun
After a tiring day of arrivals and thanks to it being a holiday in Spain – The day of Santiago – the first official day of our glorious seminar began a bit later than it will for the rest of the week. In the morni... (more)
Exile stories V: Denationalization, cause of exile.
Having a successful exile is never easy. Katherine interviewed a Kurdish couple that had to leave Syria after being dispossessed of their nationality; they couldn’t be Syrian but neither Kurdish. They live now in Germany... (more)
Exile Stories IV: A soldier, a true capitalist, an anti-communist, a hero?
Vlad, who had finnished his BA in European Studies in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2011 found his exile story right in his family. Vlad’s great-grandfather had to leave his family in 1952 when he was sent to a concentra... (more)
Exile Stories III: Finally arrived – From Poland to Ukraine
When Roksolana, student of International Relations in Kiev, started to look for a person to interview she found Dmytro Djula, who was acquainted with her grandfather as they were both members of the contemporary associa... (more)
Exile Stories II: “You can turn the train around and I will stop crying.”
Sofia, who is currently studying pharmacy in Turku conducted her interview with the grandfather of a friend by phone, living 600 kilometers apart. Jorma Iiskola was born close to Kouvola in southeastern Finland in 1935 a... (more)
Exile stories I: “When I got used to dumplings, I would be a real Czech”.
This is Vojtěch Pojar’s interview with a Belarusian refugee in his country, Czech Republic. The name Vladislav is used in order to hide the real identity of his interviewee, as he wanted to remain anonymous. When V... (more)
Starting a new life from scratch: Exile stories from all over Europe
The EUSTORY seminar in Madrid on the topic of Exile is coming up soon and the participating students have prepared some background work in the last weeks about the topic. One of the tasks they had to accomplish was cond... (more)
New Alumni Seminar is coming up…
Follow us here from July 24 to July 31. 20 students from 17 countries will meet in Madrid to discuss the topic of “Exile” together. The seminar is organized by the Real Maestranza de Ronda in Cooperation with... (more)
Results from the virtual classroom dealing with Chernobyl
About 50 EUSTORY alumni are working since September to discover the perception of the catastrophe of Chernobyl in their countries. They put their research work on an internet platform and discuss it. This platform is a c... (more)
Running out of time
It may sound ordinary but it’s true – sooner or later everything comes to an end. Without even noticing it we spent a whole week in Bulgaria discussing different religions and the co-existence and cooperation... (more)
The Rose of Sofia
So, here it is; the movie produced during the academy in Bulgaria with the bloomy title: The Rose of Sofia. The movie is dealing with the BIG topics: love, family, religion, tolerance… Watch it here…
Time to move some boundaries!
After many new impressions that we had gained the previous days, Friday was our chance to present the new knowledge in a special virtual laboratory. We spent the whole day in the National History Museum of Plovdiv, where... (more)
Potatoes rule Europe!
It may come a bit out of nowhere, since in Bulgaria we are only discussing the cooperation between different religions, but there is one remain of the Swiss academy that must also be mentioned here. Before coming to the... (more)