The key text is Dostoyevsky’s Demons, and the keynote theme derives from the oft-repeated reference to Dostoyevsky as “prophet.” During the six-week course, Demons becomes a central text around which to explore major moral, religious and political issues. These include the historical and intellectual roots of terrorism, its embodiments from state terror to individual violence, and its expression of nihilist and existential questions. In addressing these issues, students and faculty will augment their discussions through the reading of a variety of complementary philosophical, literary and historical texts. In addition, the special Explore Berlin component of the curriculum introduces students to some of the rich cultural offerings of the city.

Hallmarks of the programme are: small seminar groups, regular writing assignments, individual attention in one-on-one tutorials, and a close-knit international community of students and faculty that resides on campus. Students from all levels of undergraduate and graduate education are welcome.

A comprehensive programme fee of 4500 Euros covers tuition, campus accommodation, full board, books on loan, reading materials, class excursions, emergency medical insurance, internet access and transportation passes.

Financial aid is available. ECLA is committed to providing financial assistance grants to all successful applicants based on demonstrated financial need.

The application deadline is April 10th 2008.

Visit www.ecla.de for further details or contact the Admissions Office at admissions@ecla.de

The 2008 Summer School will take place from the 6th to the 12th of July, at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark`s Square. The theme of this Summer School is Space in Unified Models of Economy and Ecology.

The purpose of this Summer School is to review and present methods of modeling spatial problems in ecological economics, and to show how these methods can be used in environmental and resource management. In this context the Summer Schools is expected to cover issues associated with:

• the use of diffusion processes to model evolution in time and space
• the emergence of steady state spatial patterns
• applications of spatial methods to environmental and resource management and regulation problems, where space is important as in cases of patchy environments, species movements, pollution diffusion

These problems could include harvesting of renewable resources, management of pollution diffused in space, bioinvasions, elements of spatial econometrics and GIS.

FACULTY and LECTURE TOPICS
Anastasios XEPAPADEAS, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece School Coordinator
- Optimal management of spatial economic/ecological models

Aart DE ZEEUW, The Beijer Institute, Sweden, and Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Dynamic resource models

Carlo GIUPPONI, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Ca` Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Spatial aspects of the integration between environmental and socio-economic variables for integrated assessment and decision making

Simon LEVIN, Princeton University, USA
- Spatial models in ecology Michael RAUSCHER, Rostock University, Germany Location of pollution activities

James WILEN, University of California at Davis, USA
- Spatial models in renewable resource management

ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The Summer School is targeted to doctoral and post-doctoral students. Admission is conditional on the presentation by each student of his/her doctoral work; therefore applicants normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but not to have completely finished their thesis.

Application is restricted to current EAERE members, both European and non European citizens. Women are encouraged to apply. Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants is limited to 20. There is no participation fee. This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community`s Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions – Human Resources and Mobility.

All successful applicants will receive financial assistance for their participation in the Summer School under the ESS RESECON project, in accordance to the Marie Curie Actions` rules.

For further information on application and funding please access the Summer School Website at http://www.feem.it/ess/ or contact the Summer School Secretariat.

Summer School Secretariat
Ms. Angela Marigo
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
E-mail : ess@feem.it

Deadline for application: February 1st, 2008