Each year, the Program in European Cultural Studies sponsors at least one Excursion to a cultural event in New York City. Participation in an ECS Excursion is a requirement for completion of the ECS certificate, and students are encouraged to fulfill the requirement during the junior year.
Past ECS Excursions
- The Jungle, St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York (2023)
- Transverse Orientation, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2022)
- Elektra, The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2022)
- Surrealism Beyond Borders, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021)
- About Time: Fashion and Duration, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020)
- Queen of Spades, The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2019)
- Rigoletto, The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2019)
- Delacroix, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018)
- Will There Still Be Singing?, Princeton University (2017)
- Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016)
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses, New York (2016)
- Lulu, The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2015)
- Cabaret, New York (2014)
- Das Rheingold, The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2013)
- Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting, The Frick Collection, New York, (2012)
- Vienna 1900: Style and Identity, Neue Galerie, New York (2011)
- Paris and the Avant Garde, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010)
- Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913, Neue Galerie, New York (2009)
- Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007)
- Goya’s Last Works, The Frick Collection, New York (2006)
- The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1855, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2003)
- The City of K.: Franz Kafka and Prague, Jewish Museum, New York (2002)
- Franz Kafka: The Sick Jew as Hypochondriac, or Why Shouldn’t I Feel Good, I’m Sick, Lecture of Sander Gilman, Jewish Museum, New York (2002)
- The British in New York, New York Historical Society (2001)
- New Worlds, Ancient Texts, New York Public Library (2001)
- Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918, Jewish Museum, New York (2000)
- Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World, New York Public Library (2000)
- Freud: Conflict and Culture, Jewish Museum, New York (1999)
