"Dispatches from Europe" Blog Contest
Are you planning on traveleling to the European Union this summer? Submit a post to be featured on our Across the Pond blog and win prizes!
Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic Blogs
The third Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic class traveled to the Arctic Circle in summer 2014. Check out their blog entries from this summer!
Ringing the Bells at the Banner of Peace
Landscape Architecture Doctoral candidate Caroline Wisler reflects on her travels to Bulgaria.
Zach Grotovsky's Summer 2013: 14 Cities, 15 Weeks, One Long Adventure
University of Illinois graduate student in Germanic Literatures and Languages Zach Grotovsky documents his travels throughout Eastern Europe in the summer of 2013.
Peaceful Opposition in Izmir
MAEUS student Levi Armlovich describes his experiences with the protests in Izmir, Turkey.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Prishtina's Two Towers
by Chris Jackson
A recently converted pedestrian promenade, Mother Teresa Boulevard is at the center of the Kosovar capitol of Prishtina. It’s the site of summer festivals, musical performances, and nightly throngs of pedestrians. Named for Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, born Anjeza Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in nearby Skopje, the boulevard is lined at street level with cafes, nightlife, and shops, and apartments above. While much of the architecture is historic, including some eerie reminders...
Pink Tanks and Rotten Cakes: A Research Trip to Prague

by Jenelle Davis
The Pink Tank in the Military Technical Museum Lešany, 2014Photo Credit: Jenelle Davis
This past summer I spent a month in Prague conducting research for the chapter of my dissertation in art history that investigates the life of a memorial in the Czech Republic post-1945 to the present. I arrived to the beautiful city armed with a small but formidable list of email addresses and phone numbers of local curators, artists and art historians from which, I hoped, I could conjure...