THE PANELS
Use of Force in East Europe
William Pitt Union – Dining Room A
9:00-10:30am
Katherine Bibish: "Revisiting Poland, 1980-1981: Solidarity Movement, Soviet Politburo and the Evaluation of Intervention."
Adam Jundahl: "Soviet Decision Making and Intervention: The Czechoslovak Case."
Pedja Jurisic "The Role of Armies in Yugoslav Dissolution: Militant Developments and Political Motives."
Stephen Solomon: "Forced De-Stalinization: The 1956 Soviet Invasion of Hungary."
Populations Ebb and Flow
William Pitt Union – Dining Room B
9:00-10:30am
Rebecca Galloway: "The Effects of Immigration on Unemployment Rates in Seven European Metropolitan Regions."
Robert Miller: "The Demographic Crisis in Europe."
Kristina Necovska: "The Russian Demographic Crisis and the Issues it brings to the health code system."
Maria Savel: "Muslim Organizations in France and the UK and the Link with CFSP."
Literary & Artistic Europe
William Pitt Union – Dining Room A
11:00-12:30pm
Chad Allen: "Bug Logic; The Comedy of Franz Kafka."
Benjamin O’Dell: "Scenes of Science: The Role of Knowledge and Scale in Paradise Lost and Frankenstein."
Curt Reigelnegg: "Unraveling Paul Klee's Eastern Mystique.”
Elise Lonich: "Dark and Holy Thoughts: Tracking Despair in Spencer, Donne and the European Renaissance."
Dynamics of Power in Post-Soviet Europe
William Pitt Union – Dining Room B
11:00-12:30pm
Dhyana Geisler: "In Search of Unity & Identity: The Post-Soviet Ukrainian Nationalist Movement."
Cole Harvey: "Semi-Presidentialism in Russia and France."
Kirill Meleshevich: "Russia's Great Tradition and Russia's Great Ambition: Democratization at the Hands of a Strong State."
Marta Sheremeta: "Gas Crisis in Post-Soviet Space: Causes and Effects."
Gender Roles Past & Present
William Pitt Union – Dining Room A
2:00-3:30pm
Christina Cann: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, Sororite: Women in the French Political System."
Lauren Mylo: "Why Fanny Price's Virtue Makes Her a True Feminine Heroine."
Alexendra Nicholson: "Deceptive Complacency: The Critical Controversy over Fanny's Conservatism in Austen's Mansfield Park"
Dawn Rutecki: "Outside Looking In: Unconventional Soldiers in The Armed Forces of GreatBritain and the United States."
From Blocs to Union: Evolution of European Politics
William Pitt Union – Dining Room B
2:00-3:30pm
Tom Folsom: "Small State Actors in EU Foreign Policy"
Michael McCarthy: "A Pawn in the Game: Qualified Majority Voting as Intergovernmental Bargaining Chip."
Carrianne Ricker: "The EU, Agriculture, and Scientific Innovation: Cultivating the Future or Planting the Seeds of Doubt?"
Julia Cusic: Bridging the Gap: Eastern and Western Europe's Converging Histories.”
