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Thursday, April 3
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Opening Dinner & Reception
7:00 pm WPU Ballroom
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ESC and REES hosted a dinner for the students, judges, and sponsoring faculty members. The event included a keynote address by Professor Ronald Linden from the Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
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Friday, April 4
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Foreign and Development Policy Panel
9:00 am - 10:30 am, 540 WPU
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Mia Javier: "Development Assistance Policy"
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Timothy Krysiek: "Jekyll & Hyde: A Strategic Approach to 21st Century Relations with the Russian Federation"
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Heidi Mawby: "STABEX: The Stagnation of Diversity and Advantage Lost"
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European and National Identities Panel
10:00 am - 11:30 am, 527 WPU
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Stephen Bonko: "Nazi Propaganda and the Ethics of the Electorate"
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Brandon Boyd: "Eastern Europe as a Distinct European Region: National Identity vs. NATO Integration"
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Jenna Creighan: "The Future of East Europe"
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Culture Panel
11:00 am - 12:30 pm, 540 WPU
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Katherine Matson: "'This Kiss for All the World': Nietzsche’s Effect on Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze"
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Patricia McNeill: "The Presence of Homosexual Desire in Renaissance England as Demonstrated by Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Twelfth Night"
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Emily J. Raike: "The Aesthetics of Horror in Elizabethan and Jacobean Theater: Scaring the Renaissance Audience"
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Dane Roberts: "Rule-Breaking in Comedy in Russia and the West"
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Economies in Transition Panel
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, 540 WPU
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Jeremy Hicks: "Economies in Transition: The Case of Eastern Europe"
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Aaron Rusz: "Cross-Disciplinary Analysis: Slovak Republic and the EU"
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Igor Voloshen: "The European Union Enlargement: Challenges for the Czech Financial Sector"
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National Context Panel
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, 527 WPU
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Robert Fuller: "Opportunistic Memories: The Role of Political Opportunity Structure and Collective Memory in the 1953 East German Workers’ Uprising"
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Susan Hicks: "Headstrong Women and Timid Men: Social Marginalization of Males and Female Empowerment in O’Connor’s Ireland"
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Margaret J. Rencewicz: "The Polish National Catholic Church: The Beginnings or Accounting for the Revolution"
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Awards Ceremony
3:15 - 4:30 pm, Lower Lounge, WPU
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The closing reception and awards ceremony was open to the public. The awards were announced as soon as the judges had selected the first prizes and grand prize, between 3:45 and 4:00 pm.
Dr. William Brustein, Director of the University Center for International Studies, began the ceremony with his remarks. Dr. Dennis Looney, Acting Director, Center for West European Studies/European Union Center, and Dr. Robert Hayden, Director, Center for Russian & East European Studies, presented the awards.
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