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Traditional Greek dance lesson

One of the most popular student activities during a face-to-face semester is always the class on traditional Greek dances… More

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Traditional Greek dance lesson

Jan Sanders July 13, 2020

One of the most popular student activities during a face-to-face semester is always the class on traditional Greek dances. These are not merely relics of some bygone era; everyone knows at least a few of them! And even the most staid Greek - which is… More

Living with Greek Antiquity: The (virtual) Tour

Jan Sanders July 7, 2020

Some of our Athens Virtual Europe students are nearing the end of their time with us while elsewhere in Europe, students have begun session 2 classes. All of us working with the Virtual Europe summer programs in Athens, Rome, Barcelona, Granada, London… More

Picturing Athens . . .. from afar

Jan Sanders June 17, 2020

A previous blog post highlighted the work of half of the students in this spring’s Picturing Athens class. Here is some equally impressive work from the other half. Facilitating a class on photographing Athens while the students were in Seattle or Boston… More

Unlikely Perspectives; Snapshots of a Fleeting Home

Jan Sanders May 19, 2020

Unlikely Perspectives; Snapshots of  Fleeting Home is a project of collective memory, photographed by the students of the Picturing Athens class and curated by those in the Curating Athens class, Spring 2020. Here is the curatorial statement of this final… More

Zoom Zoom in the Kitchen

Jan Sanders April 21, 2020

Studying abroad in Athens while you are actually, and responsibly, social distancing from elsewhere presents all sorts of challenges and a sense of displacement is very close to the top of that challenges list. For the students who were with us in Greece… More

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