Welcome to the 2008 - 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 politics, History, Philosophy, Literature and Art.

Dr. Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)

Assistant Editors: : Orville Menard (Political Sciences), Halla Kim (Philosophy), Moshe Gershovich (History), Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages), Antony Jung (Foreign Languages), Steven L. Torres (Foreign Languages), Maria Elvira Villamil (Foreign Languages)

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I. European Politics

• Richard F. Emery: "The Single Market: A Look at its Benefits and Recommendations for Further Progress"

• Jean Pierre Lalande: " France Under Nicolas Sarkozy after 15 months: What Is and Is Not Happening"

• Orville D. Menard: "Gastronomy, Cuisine, and Political Symbolism in France"

II. Philosophy

• John A. Houston: "To Speak of God: Transcendence, Simplicity & Aquinas' Doctrine of Analogy"

• William O'Meara: "Anselm, Aquinas, Sartre, and Girard on the Ontological Argument"

III. History

• Daniel Trifan: "Privateers or Pirates? The Reiver Families of the Scottish Borders During the Early Regency, 1567-1572"

• Mara M.J. Egherman: "Don't forget the books" Kristina of Sweden as a Reader"

• Robert Bello: "Barcelona, 1939-1945: Franco Regime Manipulations of Mass Culture During the Early Years of the Post-Civil War Period"

IV. Literature

• Dr. Michael F. Meade : "The Influence of Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Writings of Wordsworth, Novalis, Hölderlin, and Chateaubriand"

• DeAnna Stansbury: "The Spectacle of it All: Reflections on the "Beardsley Woman"

V. Art

• Maggie Hazard: "David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson; Examining Community Dynamics Through Archival Photographs" Note: file size is 10 megabytes - may load slowly.

• Dr. Mike McKeon: "Mythic Consciousness in the Narrative Self-Portraits of Paul Cézanne"