Thursday, April 7

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. Alec Stewart ,University Honors College, University of Pittsburgh.

Friday, April 8

PANEL 1, European Literature and Society

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

Greg Heller-LaBelle, “The Immobilized Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle as a Noir Writer”

Patricia McNeill, “The Role of the Hour: Winnie’s Changing Roles in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent”

Benjamin O'Dell, “The Subtleness of Subversion: Problems of Feminist Interpretation in Middlemarch”

Michael J. Sechler, “Old Words, New Pages: Milton, Bracton, and the ‘Century of Revolution’”

PANEL 2, Post-Communist Trends

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

Tanya Keenan, “Poland as a Developing World Actor: A Critique of Polish Security Policy in the 21st Century”

Benjamin Keller, “Polish Foreign Policy in the 21st Century”

Anna Loukianova, “Grigori Yavlinsky on the Problems of Democratic Transition in Russia”

Jaclyn Ellen Logue, “Hungary’s Foreign Policy Struggles: A Look Into the Future”

PANEL 3, Legacy of War

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

Toby Ieuan Garbutt, “The Repair of Broken Tools: Psychiatric Treatment and Continuity Between the World Wars”

Austin Morgan Hovermale, “Choking Rommel: Force K’s Interception of Axis Supply Convoys”

Andrea Patterson, “God, Death, and Guilt: A look at Holocaust Poetry”

Adelheid Frederika Schaupp, “A German Cross-Generational Comparison of the Effects of Nazism”

PANEL 4, Europe Under Communism

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

Pedja Jurisic, “Exploring the Role of the Yugoslav Economy in Creating the Climate for the Rise of Nationalism”

Timothy Fenton Krysiek, “Soviet Saints: An Examination of Stalinist Civil Theology”

Caitlin Joy Noris, “Censorship in Communist East Europe: A Case Study and Analysis of Poland”

Michael Plumb, “The Belgrade Anomaly: The Belgrade Declaration and its Impact on Soviet-Satellite Relations”

PANEL 5, European Union and the World

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

Daniel Armanios, “Parochialism in EU Economic Policy: Case Study of Boeing and Airbus”

Thomas L. Bogacz, “Investment Enigma: Determinants of US Foreign Direct Investment in Europe”

Hollie Freeman and Deena Loomis, “When Giants Clash: The Boeing-Airbus Trade Conflict”

Ryan Thornburg, “Greece’s Immigration Policy Changes”

PANEL 6,Evolving Europe

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

Joseph Balestrino, “New Divisions in the European Union”

Richelle Bolea and Savanna Stillgess, “Why Was Female Labor Targeted for the New Industry of Centrally-Organized Linen Spinning in 18th-Century Scotland?”

Anthony Catania, “German Länder: An Invasion of Brussels”

Andrew Satchwell, “The Powers of the Presidency: Agenda Shaping Powers and Their Influence on Enlargement”

Awards Ceremony

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

The closing reception and ceremony was open to the public.