Thursday, March 25

Opening Dinner & Reception

7:00 pm WPU Lower Lounge

ESC and REES hosted a dinner for the students, judges, and sponsoring faculty members. The event included a keynote address by Dr. William Brustein, Director of the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Friday, March 26

PANEL, ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION: COLD WAR & AFTER

9:00A-10:30A, Dining Room A, WPU

Joshua C. Andy, “A Comparative Study of Military Spending and Policy in the Soviet Union and the United States, 1953-1964”

Margareta Chudnovsky, “Privatizing Russia: Case Study of Yukos Oil Company”

Jason Freeman, “The Russian Economic Transition and its Effects on Poverty”

Michael Margarucci II, “A Historical Analysis of Skoda Automobilova a.s. during Czechoslovak and Czech Economic Transition”

PANEL, BORDERS OF TRUTH AND IDENTITIES

9:00A-10:30A, Dining Room B, WPU

Lela Gibson, “From Former Yugoslavia to Germany and Back: A Study on Roma Returns”

Allison Hahn, “Orthodox Stalinism: Chinese and Russian Propaganda in the New York Times”

Michael J. Sechler, “‘A King Can Do No Wrong’: The English Reformation and the Rise of the Modern Nation State”

PANEL, STATUS, SEX, AND MONEY IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE

11:00A-12:30P, Dining Room A, WPU

Nick Goldberg, “A Fugitive From Guilt in A Woman Killed with Kindness”

Benjamin D. O’Dell, “Sex and Physicality in Modern Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Work”

J. Elizabeth Strohm, “Money and Moral Economy in the Early Works of James Joyce”

Laura Witman, “Bringing the Novel to Life: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Other Works on Film”

PANEL, STATE & NON-STATE TERRORISM, SPIES AND ORGANIZED CRIME

11:00A-12:30P, Dining Room B, WPU

Timothy Krysiek, “Global Operations: The Intelligence Community of the Russian Federation”

Mary Swalligan, “Struggling Against the Arc of Instability: Russia’s Response to September 11th”

Eric R. Washabaugh, “Organized Criminal Groups in Russia and the Russian Federation”

Kathryn E. Wilson, “Tilting the Balance of Power: The Rise of Women Terrorists in Europe”

PANEL, THE EUROPEAN NATION-STATE IN THE POST-MODERN WORLD

1:30P-3:00P, Dining Room A, WPU

Brian C. Andersen, “Fishing for Sovereignty: Norway’s European Voyage”

David C. Shearouse, “The Triple-P Foreign Policy Plan for Romania”

Ryan Thornburg, “Ireland: Solow Growth Model Explains its Extraordinary Growth”

Michael Tooshi, “New Public Management Reform and the Reassertion of the State”

PANEL, EU ENLARGEMENT IN 2004: PROGNOSTICATING CHANGE

1:30P-3:00P, Dining Room B, WPU

Thomas Folsom, “EU and the Balkans: Are ‘Carrot and Stick’ Policies the Right Idea?”

Meghan McCaffrey, “The Continuing Communist Legacy in East Europe”

Andrew Peters, “The European Union’s Eastward Expansion and Beyond”

Igor A. Voloshen, “The ‘Other’ Europe: Distinctiveness and Uniqueness of East and Central Europe”

Awards Ceremony

3:15 - 4:30 pm, Lower Lounge, WPU

The closing reception and ceremony was open to the public. The ceremony began at 3:45. Dr. Robert Hayden, Director, Center for Russian & East European Studies, began the ceremony with his remarks and presented the awards.