Welcome to the 2007 - European Studies Conference Selected Proceedings. The following articles were selected for publication by our Assistant Editors. Each year, we have a variety of different topics, which lead to the following categories for this year: European History, Philosophy, Literature, Culture, Music and Art.

Dr. Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages) - Editor of the European Studies Conference Proceedings

Assistant Editors/Readers: Carolyn Gascoigne (Foreign Languages), Halla Kim (Philosophy), Charles Johanningsmeier (English), Michael Skau (English).

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I. History

• Raymond W. Leonard: "From War through Revolution: The Story of the Latvian Rifles"

• Tom Conner: "Le Lucien Lacombe de 1944 est un jeune homme d’aujourd'hui": The Collaboration as Anti-Tragedy"

• Jean-Pierre Lalande: "The French Left in Crisis – the Socialist Party Needs More Than a Facelift"

II. Philosophy

• William O'Meara:   "Kierkegaard on Socrates: Know Thyself as Choose Thyself"

• Spencer Davis:   "Isaiah Berlin on Romanticism"

• Michael Meade:   "Goethe's Torquato Tasso: The Conflict between the Ideal World of the Poet and the Real World of Politics and Commerce."

III. Literature

• Alana Eldrige: "Writing Visual History into La Comédie humaine: Balzac and the Napoleonic Myth."

• Joseph Militello:   "Silent Stares: Albert Camus’ Representation of Arabs in Exile and the Kingdom"

• Irena Galloway: "The Image of the Russion Society during the Revolution in Alexei Tolstoy's Novel The Ordeal"

• Ana Carballal: "Castelao and the Generation of 1898: History and Topics"

IV. Culture, Music, and Art

• Alessandra Padula: "Multilingualism in the European Union: Teaching Foreign Languages in the Elementary School"

• Stu Burns:   "And With All That, Who Believes in Vampires? Undead Legends and Enlightenment Culture"

  Bibliography

• Marie C. Miller: "Eusebius and Florestan: The Duality of Robert Schumann, Composer and Music Critic"

• William B. Sieger:   "Literary Texts and Formal Strategies in Emil Nolde's Religious Paintings"

• Mike McKeon "Locating the Viewer in Formalist Aesthetic Theory and French Neoclassical Art"