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UCF Student Activities

LAS students are an active community and organize many social and extracurricular activities. The Students Council is a platform for the interest groups (of the LAS Majors) and many student committees and projects:

angLES Journal

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The 2019 LESC also featured the launch of angLES, a "trans-european, inter-university" liberal education students journal, a project designed to continue spreading and sharing ideas within and beyond the circles of liberal education. This journal provides a platform to extend the conversation about liberal education beyond the conference, as well as providing a close network for students with its imbedded peer-review process.

Arts Liberated

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LAS is not an Arts Program. However, students are very creative also beyond their academic endeavors. The Arts Liberated Committee is dedicated to pushing academic boundaries through artistic creation. Projects so far:

  • May 2017: An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley.
  • February 2018: a stage adaption of Lord of the Flies by William Golding; the Badische Zeitung, uniCROSS, and fudder reported on the play.
  • June 2018: The Lost Writings of Molu Safelu; uniCROSS reported on the play.
  • February 2019: Waiting for Dogot
  • July 2019: Das Jubiläumfudder reported on the play.
  • February 2020: a stage adaption of Solaris by Tarkovskij; fudder interviewed Arts Liberated.
  • June 2022: The Mussel Feast, a stage adaption of Birgit Vanderbeke's Das Muschelessen; the producers and cast were interviewed by uniCROSS.

EcoALAS

EcoALAS is UCF's sustainability committee. We offer a space where everyone can share their thoughts and concerns about sustainability. Every idea, project, or initiative is heard and welcomed. In this committee we believe that every action, however small, makes a difference. EcoALAS projects

  • Our very own garden
  • Liberal gardening (like a book club but with plants)
  • Informational Instagram posts series (our next topic is the menstrual cup)
  • Workshops about sustainability (e.g., sourdough, cleaning products diy)


If you have any questions or want to join the committee feel free to contact us at . And EcoALAS is on Instagram! @ecoalasfreiburg

Feminism2Go

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Feminism2go is a committee that creates space for addressing issues and inspires action relating to intersectional feminism. Whether it's about menstrual products in the bathrooms, feminist reading circles, or activism, Feminism2go is the right address. The committee aims to break the academic bubble, move beyond it, and become an open and inclusive space. Anyone is welcome, whether student or non-student. Recognizing that a wide range of feminist organizations already exists in Freiburg, the committee also sees itself in an intermediary position to support, link, and complement feminist action around it.

Meetings are scheduled once a week on Tuesday at 6pm in the Reading Room to discuss and update each other on up-coming projects.

Find them on Instagram: @Feminism2Go or reach out to under: 

Global Affairs in Dialogue (GAD)

Global Affairs in DialogueGAD is a committee that aims to build a network between students and experts engaging with global challenges in diverse disciplines. Formerly known as the Global Order Project, it was established under the patronage of the former chief prosecutor of the ICC Moreno Ocampo in 2015.

The Committee has organized talks, events, conferences, and student excursions. Each year, the Committee chooses an overarching topic that it aims to investigate and discuss. For the academic year 2021/2022, GAD focused on the topic of "Grassroots Movements and Civil Society".

The Global Affairs in Dialogue Team also used to organize pub quizes, movie nights, and workshops and hopes to be able to revive these activities as soon as the situation allows.

 

Jack

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The Jack is a magazine run and published by UCF students. Each issue explores a theme in an interdisciplinary and creative way. Contributions adopt political, scientific, social, philosophical, personal, cultural, or alternative perspectives and take divergent stylistic forms. In this spirit, the Jack is an expression of the philosophy of the Freiburg LAS community that embraces academic, social, and cultural diversity. 

You can follow JACK on Instagram.

LESC – European Liberal Education Student Conference

UCF-LESC-Call-for-Proposals-2017LESC is a series of student conferences for which LAS students and experts from throughout Europe get together and discuss current Liberal Education developments. The 2nd LESC took place in Freiburg in May 2017 with a focus on: A complex world needs complex thinking. The 3rd LESC took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from May 10 to May 13, 2018. And, in 2019, students from around Europe met in Berlin May 2-5, 2019 for the 4th LESC.

LESS – European Liberal Education Student Symposium

From April 13-15, 2018, the 1st European Liberal Education Student Symposium took place at the Kandelblickhütte in the Black Forest. 37 Liberal Education students from eight European universities discussed: Education F(r)ees or Freeing Education? – The Interdependencies Between Liberal Education and Politics in Theory and Practice. The idea of a small-scale extra-curricular exchange between European Liberal Arts colleges was taken up in 2019 at an LESS in Tilburg, April 12-14, 2019.

Liberal Education Student Symposium 2018

Outreach Committee

Outreach CommitteeAptly named, the Outreach Committee's goal is to reach out to other Liberal Arts programs and colleges, the larger Uni Freiburg, and the city itself. Therefore, the focus is on establishing and maintaining partnerships with other like-minded universities and colleges such as Leuphana University Lüneburg, University College Maastricht, and University College London with various joint projects and activities. These include the hitchhiking challenges to Maastricht and Lüneburg as well as organizing their stay when they make their way to UCF. The committee also co-organized the first Liberal Education Students Conference (LESC) in Lüneburg and planned and carried out the second LESC here in Freiburg (see more info above). In the past the Outreach Committee hase also organized a Harvard buddy program and took care of a tutoring system for LAS first-year students. They are always open to innovative ideas and fresh faces!

The Outreach Committee is on Facebook.

The Intense Ccoomiite

The Intense Ccoomiite is the fun-only committee at UCF and is committed to providing the student body with intense bonding experiences.

In-tents, the camping branch of this pony yard, organizes one weekend trip per semester to beautiful places with all lasers throughout the cohorts. Dancing, cooking, swimming and chilling together enables everyone to make new connections to other people from UCF and strengthens the LAS community.

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Intänz, the party branch of this intense committee, organizes one party-ish event per semester, open for all to come and party with us. This outreaching factor enables us lasers to get in touch with students from other faculties but also to people in Freiburg that are not part of the university bubble.

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Interested? Get in touch with Intense / In-tents / Intänz at ucf.intensity@gmail.com!

Archive

UCF Lecture Series: Beyond the Crisis – Civilians in Armed Conflicts

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The UCF Students Council has organized a lectures series on cilvilians in armed conflicts and refugees in 2016. External lecturers have been invited to present their perspective and expertise in the following areas and lectures:

  • Dr. Melanie Kolbe (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva): "Refugees of Today – Professionals of Tomorrow? Labor Migration Policies in the Context of the Refugee Crisis"
  • Rica Terbeck (Evaluator for the Council of Europe): "The UN in Humanitarian Crises – A Report from the Middle East"
  • Hannah Pool (Farsi Translator): "Lost Between Borders – Stories Behind the Refugee Crisis"