{"id":50348,"date":"2011-10-25T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=50348"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:11:32","slug":"fsa-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/25\/fsa-france\/","title":{"rendered":"The shutter clicks and Ebbe Sweet &#8217;11 sees what they see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love to watch other people take photos,&#8221; says photographer Ebbe Sweet &#8217;11, a program assistant on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Semester Abroad program in France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the moment that their shutter closes, I have the opportunity to see what they see, to experience the world as they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Led by Professor of French Kirk Read and Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall, the program is an intensive immersion experience, develops strong linguistic competency and is intellectually engaging.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50353\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/MG_11331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50353\" class=\"wp-image-50353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/MG_11331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/MG_11331.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/MG_11331-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Hitchcock &#8217;14 photographs Maud Welch &#8217;13 in front of the Aiguilles de Port Coton on Belle \u00cele. The students are part of the intensive and immersive ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Fall Semester Abroad program centered in Nantes. Photograph by Ebbe Sweet &#8217;11.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>See more of Sweet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/batesnantes.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/observations-on-bates-fsa-photographers.html\">photographs of students taking photos in France<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn about newly renovated Roger Williams Hall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/unbounded\/\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½&#8217; new center for language study and off-campus study<\/a>, and Hedge Hall, also renovated for academic use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/batesnantes.blogspot.com\/2011_09_01_archive.html\">In Read&#8217;s recent blog post, <\/a>he quotes the heroine, Zilia<em>, <\/em>of Fran\u00e7oise de Graffigny&#8217;s 18th-century <em>Lettres d&#8217;une P\u00e9ruvienne<\/em>, who noted that the French seemed to possess &#8220;very different portions of those elements from which [God] formed human beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read quotes Zilia&#8217;s lament as a &#8220;way of making explicit some of the thrills and spills of encountering new cultures.&#8221; Many of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students, &#8220;are living very poignant, often emotion-filled days as they struggle to navigate new ways of living and seeing the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love to watch other people take photos,&#8221; says photographer Ebbe Sweet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":50353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[133,11012],"tags":[11003,10721],"class_list":["post-50348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","category-student-life","tag-europe","tag-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50348"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118909,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions\/118909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}