The Crisler Library at Ephesos
Programs
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Mission Statement: to promote scholarship, research and education in order to foster a deeper understanding of the ancient history of Asia Minor by providing a library in Ephesos, Turkey.
Goals of CLE programs
The CLE programs are designed to provide education, training and a platform for dialogue, and to promote an international cross-cultural and cross-borders understanding.
- Scholarship: to have the most definitive library about Ephesos.
- Research: to be the research center for scholars and students about Ephesos.
- Education: CLE is committed to focusing on youth and university students, the next generation archaeologists, historians, business and government leaders. Its flagship program is the International Archaeology Seminar for Students, a competitive program for university students from Turkey and other countries, who come to CLE to learn about Ephesos from the archaeologists who excavated, restored and published on the major monuments at the site.
Education Programs
CLE is committed in its education programming to focus on the youth and university students, the next generation archaeologists and historians. To date, over 100 university students have participated in the programs, which are designed to provide a platform for dialogue and to promote an international cross-cultural understanding that is an important element in building bridges towards a more just and peaceful world. Through CLE’s setting in Selcuk, a Muslim community, visitors have an opportunity to meet the warm and vibrant people and experience their rich culture. During their time at CLE, the students encounter many layers of civilization in their studies and learn the great impact Ephesos had on the development of western civilization.
In outreach to local and foreign scholars, university students, youth and interested adults, CLE offers on-site teaching for the study of Ephesos with its library and meeting facilities and its availability to nearby Ephesos, the Ephesos Museum, and other historical sites. It has access to scholars, including the archaeologists who excavated, restored and published on the major monuments at Ephesos, to give lectures to groups on varied topics.
International Archaeology Summer Session 2011 Student Application Form
International Archaeology Summer School for Students,(IAS), 2009 and 2010
IAS is CLE’s flagship program, a CLE-developed study program about Ephesos, taught by an international group of archaeologists and architects. It is open to qualified university undergraduates, Master’s Degree and Ph.D. candidates in archaeology, history and philology. It was initiated in July 2009 as a one week “building bridges” and cross-cultural program, with university students coming from Turkey, Slovakia, Germany and Palestine. They all attended on scholarships. Due to the pilot program’s enormous success, the program was repeated in July 2010 and expanded to two weeks with university students coming from the United States, Turkey, Slovakia, Germany and Palestine. Those needing financial assistance were helped by The Maria Rossiwall Scholarship Fund, which was set up in 2010 to help worthy students from around the world attend the CLE program. It honors a young woman who, in her short life, lived the spirit of the International Archaeology Summer School program - reaching across borders, across cultures and across mind sets to embrace, communicate with, and learn from, students and teachers in the world community.
Faculty for 2009, 2010 International Archaeology Summer School for Students
Below is a list of the scholars with links to their CVs.
• Your Branch Campus at CLE, Ephesos / Study Abroad Programs CLE is establishing itself as Your Branch Campus in Ephesos for universities and other academic groups interested in bringing their students to Ephesos. Available to the programs are scholar experts not only for Ephesos but for the many nearby historical sites. Faculty bring their students for short stays of a few days up to three weeks. Universities meeting at CLE have included in 2009 and 2010 Boston University and University of California, Santa Barbara and in 2009 the University of Oslo.
• Faculty Seminars
CLE meeting facilities are available for faculty to meet to present their findings on their subjects. In 2008, Dr. Christine Thomas, UC, Santa Barbara, coordinated a faculty seminar at CLE on the material culture of Ephesos. Dr. Thomas will be bringing another faculty seminar to the Library in August 2011.
• Travel Study Groups
Host to groups, as Elderhostel and museums, which focus on educational topics relating to Ephesos.