European Studies Conference Selected Proceedings
It is with great pleasure that we present to you fifteen years of European Studies Conference Selected Proceedings. We have selected many papers from the most recent conferences, with topics ranging from literature, film, social sciences, economy, and politics to business. Thus, we decided to create several headings under which the readers are welcome to peruse their content.
2024
49th Annual European Studies Conference Proceedings
Art, Music, Film
Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang Imagine Metropolis
Andrew J. Gregg
Independent Scholar
Music Evoking the Emotional Relationships Between Jewish Prisoners and SS Guards
Alexia Ritterbush
University of Nebraska at Omaha
History
Giovanna Potenza
University of Naples, Italy, “Federico II”
Aquileia: Largest Archeological Reserve in Europe
Michael J. Ziemann
Seattle Pacific University
From Cradle to Grave: Turn of the Century Department Stores and the Intersection of Modernity
Marissa Knaak
Michigan State University
Contemporary Russian Perceptions of Tsar Nicholas II
Cadra Peterson McDaniel
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
Modern Languages and Linguistics
Topos of Stiva Oblonsky’s Ribald Dream and Lev Tolstoy’s Philosophical Conception of Music
Nina Efimov
The Florida State University
A Daughter of Cornwall: The Overlooked Literary Relevance of Maria Branwell, Mother of the Brontës
Elsa Fierro
Independent Scholar
Paul Houe
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jeffrey Oxford
Midwestern State University
Pavel Korchagin as the Epitome of a Socialist Realist Hero
Brandon Szkutnik
Florida State University
Philosophy
Is Being a Primitive Term? Questions About the Meaning of Being
Jason M. Costanzo
Conception Seminary College
John Gray’s Political Philosophy
Spencer Davis
Peru State College
Political Science and International Affairs
Eva Teqja
Aleksander Moisiu University, Albania
Ivan Dinev Ivanov
University of Cincinnati
2023
Art
“Foucault’s Practices of Freedom: Problematization and Political Imagination in Reyberolle’s Dogs,” Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Film
“Neither ‘Worthless’ nor ‘Vicious:’ Sergei Eisenstein’s Final Battles Beyond the Ice,” Andrew J. Gregg, Historic Preservation Commissioner, Washington State.
“The Impact of the Film Schindler's List on German Vergangenheitsbewältigung,” Beatrice Leeming, Cambridge University.
History
“Science and Alchemy: A New Interpretation of the Miscellaneous Papers of Don Antonio de’ Medici,” Giovanna Potenza, University of Naples.
Literature
“Marcel Proust in The Times Literary Supplement (1913-1932),” Herbert Craig, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
“The Genre Specifics of Eugene Vodolazkin’s Novel The Aviator,” Nina Efimov, Florida State University.
“Uncovering the Trauma Narrative in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Coils of Fear,” Julia Engellandt, University of Missouri-Columbia.
“Of Demons, Adders and Drugs: Discourse as Instrument of Female Agency in Miriam Toews’s Women Talking and Catriona Ward’s Little Eve,” Elisa Fierro, Independent Scholar.
“The Serranillas (Mountain Songs) of the Libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love) and Ecofeminism,” Katherine Gatto, John Carroll University.
“The Problem of Self-identification in the Short Stories of Bernhard Schlink,” Natalia Gridneva, Samara State Technical University.
“Gender, Race, Power, and Decolonization of the Transatlantic Secret Freemasonry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Spain and South America,” Claudia Salas-Forero, University of Kansas.
“The Diaries of John Fowles as a Creative Biography of the Writer,” T. L. Selitrina, Bashkir State Pedagogical University.
“Ambiguity, Contradiction, and the Eidolon of Man: An Examination of ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” John Umland, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
“‘Only the Good Die Young’: Shelley’s Adonais and the Making of a Romantic Star,” Rebecca Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Music
“Unveiling the Sensory Sinfonia: Re-imagining the Sonorous and Sensuous Essence of Medieval Pilgrimage,” Evelyn Nicholson, Margaret Beaufort Institute in the Cambridge Federation of Theology.
Religion
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Capital Punishment: Correcting Aquinas with Aquinas,” John Morris, Rockhurst University.
2022
Art
“The Spirit and the Flesh: Emil Nolde’s Legendenbilder” by William B. Sieger, Northeastern Illinois University
Cinema
Viruses, Vermin and Vampires: Memory, Pandemic, and The Centennial of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu by Bartholomew Burns, Independent Scholar
Barcelona on Screen: Todo sobre mi madre (1999), L'Auberge espagnole (2002), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Biutiful (2010) by Katherine M. Gatto, John Carroll University
Battleship Potemkin’s Wake: Sergei Eisenstein’s Imperfect Apotheosis by Andrew J. Gregg, Independent Scholar
Moving Images: The Changing Representation of Immigrants and Refugees in European Cinema and Television, Keynote Address, European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska Omaha, October 7, 2022 by John Lyden, Blizek Professor of Religious Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
History
Old Wine in New Bottles: The Works of Niall Ferguson by Spencer Davis, Peru State College
Transatlantic Afro Medicinal Power in the Inquisition of Cartagena de Indias and the Supreme Court of Madrid: Intersectionality, Hybridity and Transculturation by Claudia Salas-Forero, University of Kansas
Literature
Poe and the Generation of 1914: The Prism of Ramón Pérez de Ayala1 by José Manuel Correoso-Ródenas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
“There is a curse on her”: British Fin-de-Siècle Anxieties and Patriarchal Appropriation of Women’s History in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire by Elisa Fierro, Independent Scholar
Revenge Porn (or Poem) chez Alfred de Musset by Carolyn Gascoigne, University of Houston-Downtown
The Phenomenon of Writing in the Perception of Some Contemporary Russian Authors by Natalia Gridneva, Samara State Technical University
The Hero’s Perception of American Society in Eduard Limonov’s Fictional Memoir It’s Me Eddie by Maeghan Kerins, Florida State University
Live Rat or Dead Lion? Teaching Ethics with Bolt’s A Man for All Seasonsi by John Lee, University of Nebraska-Kearny
Engaging the Trope of the ‘Decembrist Wife’: Wives of Soviet Political Prisoners in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle and Vassily Aksyonov’s Generations of Winter by Rilley Kaye McKenna, Florida State University
The Correspondence between Livia Vernazza and Giovanni de’ Medici (1612-1622): A New Perspective by Giovanna Potenza, University of Naples, Italy, “Federico II”
Philosophy
Blame and Human Rights by Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, Purdue Global
Barbarism, civilization, and university education: Some considerations from Aristotle and Camus by Gene Fendt, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Political Science
Brexit and the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Debra Holzhauer, Southeast Missouri State University
2021
Cinema
“Mario Bava and the Evolution of a Genre Aesthetic" by B. Stu Burns, Nebraska Public Historians
“Russian Ribbons. Sergei Eisenstein: Young Pioneer of Soviet Cinema” by Andrew J. Gregg Independent scholar
History
“Nothing more unjust than equality:” Evaluating Contemporary Debates on Feminist and Democratic Memory in Spain (the case of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Francisco Franco’s Family Residence, the Pazo de Meirás" by Diego Baena, Trinity College
Literature
“Arzallus and Balde’s Mestiza Basque Country. Still a Utopia?” by Nerea Eizagirre, University of Nevada, Reno
“Ghosts of Patriarchy: Haunted Houses and Femicidal Violence in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger” By Elisa Fierro, Independent scholar
“Portraits of the English and Spanish: Translators (and Revisers) of Proust” by Herbert E. Craig University of Nebraska at Kearney
“Subversive Women in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy” by Brian Moots, Pittsburg State University
“Aqua Tofana: Poison and Murderesses in Seventeenth-century Rome” By Giovanna Potenza, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
“Innovativeness of Psychological Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen and Susan Hill” By Tamara L. Selitrina, Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Ufa, Russia
“T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in the context of Alexey Losev’s Philosophy of a Name” by Kristina Marshaniya, University of Tyumen
Philosophy
“Camus, Sisyphus, and the Logic of Despair” by Jason Costanzo, Conception Seminary College
2020
The 2020 Assistant Editors:
- Ana Carballal (Foreign Languages)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)
Cinema:
“Diaspora of “Caligari’s Cabinet”: Viral Roots of American Horror and Noir” by Andrew J. Gregg, Independent scholar.
“Medea Three Ways: Schauspiel Frankfurt, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lars Von Trier” by Jon Mark Mikkelsen from Missouri Western State University. Bibliography and Figures.
History
“Napoleon to New Spain: How France began the Mexican War of Independence” by Curtis James Keltner from Texas A&M University – Central Texas.
“Institutionally United yet Globally Evolving: The Effect of Language Codification and Cultural Identity in France” by Ella Padden from South Dakota State University
“You’ll Never Silence the Voice of the Voiceless: A Policy Examination Concerning the Treatment of the Muslim Bosniaks During the Bosnian War” by Jeremiah Snyder from American Intercontinental University
“The Banker Who Ate His Money” by Michael Andrew Zmolek from University of Iowa
Literature
“Images of New Russians in the Works of Vassily Akyonov” by Nina Efimov from Florida State University
“Deadly Mothers: Evil Motherhood in Three Ghost Stories” by Elisa Fierro, independent scholar
“Out of the Margins: Constructing Jewish Identity in E. Draitser’s Memoir” by Tatyana Novikov, University of Nebraska at Omaha
“The Gothic Prose of Susan Hill” by Tamara Selitrina from Bashkir State Pedagogical University
“Money as Inconspicuous and Powerful Protagonist in Dostoevsky’s Works” by Kristina McCall, Defense Language Institute
2019
The 2019 Assistant Editors:
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)
Art and Cinema
Stu Burns, Independent scholar: “Bloodlines and Bricolage: Intertextual Relations in Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr”
Cadra Peterson McDaniel, Texas A&M University-Central Texas: “Valentin Serov: Mir iskusstva and Portrayals of the Russian Monarchy"
Literature
Herbert Craig, University of Nebraska at Kearney: “The Forms of Address “Tu” and “Vous” in Le Côté de Guermantes, I by Marcel Proust”
Poul Houe, University of Minnesota: “Europe 1919-2019: A Suicidal Continent – Still Alive”
David M. Uber, Baylor University: “The City in Marguerite Duras’ The Sea Wall”
Rebecca Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney: “Dante and His Epigones: “Breaking the Barrier of Death”
Philosophy
Imtiaz Moosa, University of Wisconsin at River Falls: “How could Nietzsche defend his Rejection of Kantian Respect of Human Dignity, especially in light of Orwell’s 1984?”
Political Economy
Michael Andrew Žmolek, University of Iowa: “The Dark World of Reverend Malthus”
Sociology/Education
Ágnes Klein, University of Pécs, Edina Haslauer, University of Wisconsin-Platteville: “Developing Democratic Citizenship through the Celebration of National Holidays in Hungarian Schools”
Hana Waisserova, University of Nebraska at Lincoln: “Socialist Paradise, Sexual Paradise? Meditation on “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism” (2018) by Kristen Ghodsee”
2018
The 2018 Assistant Editors:
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)
Literature
B. Stu Burns, Independent Scholar: “Reviving Lavinia: Dracula as an Intertext of Titus Andronicus.”
Dr. Melinda A. Cro and Kiara M. O’Dea, Kansas State University: “Mapping the Astrée: Character, Geography, and Myth.” Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3.
Elisa Fierro, Independent scholar: A Devilish Diamond for a Devilish Woman: Colonial and Gender Oppression in Wilkie Collins’The Moonstone.”
Dr. Jeffrey Oxford, Midwestern State University: “Demonios, meigas, and médiums: Non-Christian Religious Characters and Rituals in Novels by Dolores Redondo and Reyes Calderón."
Political Science.
Dr. Scott G. Feinstein and Ellen B. Pirro, Iowa State University: “Russia Since Trump: Testing the New World Order.”
Dr. Chris Kroh, University of North Georgia, “Democratic Reversal and Transatlantic Security: Eroding Democratization and the Future of N.A.T.O.”
2017
The 2017 Assistant Editors:
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)
History and Politics:
Betty McLane-Iles, Truman State University: “Christiane Taubira and Her Contributions to Diversity and Justice: An Overall Appraisal”
José Valero, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire: “Liberalism and Republicanism in the Spanish Generation of 1808”
Michael Andrew Zmolek, University of Iowa: “Market Dependence, Market Imperatives and the Making of Industrial Capitalism in England”
Linguistics
Natalie Udina, RUDN University Moscow, Russia: “Reforming the Language of Law and Administration in European Countries”
Literature
Alan S. Bruflat, Wayne State College: “Buried Past, Uncertain Future in the Poetry of Alvaro Garcia”
Herbert Craig, University of Nebraska at Kearney: “The Three Translations to English and the Three English Revisions of “Combray” by Marcel Proust”
Elisa Fierro, Independent scholar: “Enchantress, Queen, Goddess: Morgan le Fay as Triple Principle of Unity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Gabrielle K. Frawley, University of Kansas: “The Inescapable Niemandsländer of Exile: The Tenuous Legality of the Refugee’s Existence in Exile from National Socialism as Manifest in the Poetry of Mascha Kaléko”
Catherine Kapi, Morris College: “Religion, Identity and Immigration: The Case of Marie NDiaye’s Papa doit manger”
David M. Uber, Baylor University: "Order and Breakdown in Three African Novels by Georges Simenon"
2016
The 2016 Assistant Editors:
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)
Cinema
- David Caldwell, University of Northern Colorado: "The New and the Old in Jan Ole Gerster's A Coffee in Berlin"
Folklore
- B. Stu Burns, Independent Scholar: "Vana: A Slovenian Sinti Vampire Story in Post-Holocaust Context"
Literature
- Ralph W. Buechler, University of Nevada-Las Vegas: "The Phenomenology of Absence and Alienation in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants"
Elisa Fierro, University of Kansas: "From "Lady Bountiful" to "industrial angel": Philanthrophy and Female Friendship Across Classes in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South"
Michael Meade, Fort Hays State University: "From Thomas More's Utopia (1516) to the Dystopias of Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell" (in PDF format)
Political Science
Christopher Kroh, University of Georgia: "Democracy in Crisis: Examining the Breakdown in Public Support for European Democratic Institutions"
2015
The 2015 Assistant Editors:
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)
Music
- Michael Saffle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: "Liszt, Hungary, and the Beginnings of European Nationalism"
Literature & Language
- Ana Carballal, University of Nebraska at Omaha "The Mirage of the Colony and National Identity in Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao”
- Herbert E. Craig, University of Nebraska at Kearney "The Four Spanish Translations of Le côté de Guermantes I by Marcel Proust”
- Michael Meade, Fort Hays State University "The Influence of Cubism on André Gide's The Counterfeiters (1925) and the Development of the "Nouveau Roman.’’
- Carl P.E. Springer, University of Tennessee Chattanooga “To Forget Latin: Reflections on the Fading of a European Sign”
- David Uber, Baylor University "We’ll always have…” Modiano’s Paris as seen in Quartier Perdu"
History
- Baard Herman Borge, University of Tromsø, Campus Harstad (Norway) "War Babies in South Varanger: A Testimony to Extensive Norwegian-German Contact”
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Elizabeth A. Harry, University of Saint Thomas "John Barleycorn Must Die: Lynn White and the Special Role of the West in Modern Environmental Destruction”
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J. E. Landrum, Kansas State University "A Missed Opportunity: Exploring the Motivations Behind U.S. European Security Policy at the End of the Cold War"
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Sue Saffle, Virginia Polytechnic and State University “Say A Nice Thank-You”: One Finnish War Child’s Story"
Political Science
- Davis Florick, Department of Defense “ The Future of Russia-China Relations”
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Frank P. Le Veness, St. John's University, "The Constitutional Future of British Sub-national Regions: A Case Study of Scotland"
Creative Scholarly Writing
- Marianne Choquet, University of Wisconsin-Platteville “A Round Table on Sexual Difference, A Play of Sorts”
2014
The 2014 Assistant Editors:
- Erwin Erhardt (Political Sciences, University of Cincinnati)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
Literature
- • Dr. Michael Meade, English Department, Fort Hayes State University: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited as a Panegyric to the Aristocracy's Demise
- • Elisa Fierro, University of Kansas: Helen Huntingdon, the Bröntean Amazon: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and the Feminist and Feminine Literature of the American Renaissance.
- • Dr. Russell E. Fail, Professor of Humanities, Kaplan University:Dostoevsky's Call for Ethics in The Brothers Karamazov
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Cinema
- • Catherine Kapi, Morris College, South Carolina: My Life in a Documentary: Identity Crisis in Claude Haffner's Noire ici, blanche là-bas
• Amanda Leigh Boerger, Student, South Dakota State University:Qui Porte la Culotte? Feminized Husbands in Chabrol's Une affaire de femmes
Philosophy
• Spencer Davis, Professor of History, Peru State University:"Getting ready for the next war Bertrand Russell's political thought in the 1930s
History
- Vincent Giroud, Professor, Université de Franche-Comté: Paris, Capital of the World? Haussman, Hugo, Benjamin
• Chad Gibbs, Graduate Student of History, University of Nebraska, Omaha: Amidah and Treblinka: Extermination Camp Survival as Agentic Resistance
Politics, Law, and Business
- Christopher Kroh, University of Wisconsin Colleges: Stability amid Change: Impact of the 2014 European Parliament Elections at the European level
• Natalia Udina, People's Friendship University, Russia:Translation in the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: a Comparative Analysis
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Mathieu Houser, Professor of Law, Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Digital Economy and Taxation
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2013
The 2013 Assistant Editors:
- Jeremy Baguyos (Music)
- Erwin Erhardt (Political Sciences, University of Cincinnati)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
Art and Music
• Rossella Marisi: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Works by Alfredo Casella
• Elaine Slater: Transgressing Borders: Emigrant/Immigrant/Artist. The Work of Lalla Essaydi (Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6, Photo 7, Photo 8)
• Antonia Dapena-Tretter: Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke: Painting the Postwar German Experience
History and Politics
• Flavia Marisi: Conflict and Cooperation between the European Court of Justice and the Member States Constitutional Courts: The Mangold and Honeywell Cases
Literature
• Michael F. Meade: Lessing's Theories in his Laokoon Debated by John Keats in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"• Michael Rueter: The Prophetic Sensibility of Some Aljamiado Texts: Motives and Topoi
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• Victoria Finney: Russia's Role in Metamorphosing Rilke's Poverty Concept
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2012
The 2012 Assistant Editors:
- Ana Carballal (Foreign Languages)
- Gwyneth Cliver (Foreign Languages)
- Robert Darcy (English)
- Erwin Erhardt (Political Sciences, Thomas More College)
- Halla Kim (Philosophy)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
Literatures and Cinema
- • Therese Novotny: A Queen's Two Bodies: The "Pressed Grass" and Deferred Physicality in Spenser's Faerie Queen
• Kelsey McIntyre and Radha Balasubramanian: Stories of Ambition and Guilt: Five Character Types in Dostoevsky'sCrime and Punishment and Dickens's Great Expectations
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• Frédérique Sevet-Collier: The Novel of Formation in Alexandre Dumas' Les trois mousquetaires and Sylvandire
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• David M Uber: Maigret, atmosphere and the theme of the "inconnu" in two short stories by Georges Simenon
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• Jonathan O'Connor: García Lorca, Transfigured Bodies and the Desire for Reintegration
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• Bert Patrick: Structural Verisimilitude in Pedro Almodóvar'sHable con ella (Talk to her)
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Philosophy
- • Mary Lenzi: The Transformation of Truth, Freedom, and History in the Existentialism of Jean Paul Sartre
• William Starr: Northern Ireland: Legal Philosophy and the European Court
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History and Popular Culture
- • Kathleen Scarpena: Tudor Fashion
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2011
The 2011 Assistant Editors:
- Jeremy Baguyos (Music)
- Ana Carballal (Foreign Languages)
- Gwyneth Cliver (Foreign Languages)
- Susan Eldridge (Accounting)
- Moshe Gershovich (History)
- Anthony Jung (Foreign Languages)
- Joan Latchaw (English)
- Orville Menard (Political Science)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Michael Peterson (Geography)
- Barbara Simcoe (Art History)
- Stephen Torres (Foreign Languages)
English Literature
- • Stu Burns:: "Vampire and Empire, Dracula and the Imperial Gaze"
French Literature and Art
- • David M. Uber: "Sunday on the Seine with Maigret: Fantasy and Joie de vivre in La guinguette à deux sous"
• Tyler E. Ostergaard: "Monsters in the Fog: The Critical Reaction to the Railroad as Subject Matter in Manet, Monet and Caillebotte's Paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare and Pont de l'Europe"
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German Literature and History
- • Joan L Clinefelter: "Overcoming the Führer by Confronting the Senator: McCarthyism and the German Past"
- • Donald R. Sunnen: "Seeking European Understanding: A Visit to Kreisau"
• Tony Demchak: "The Division of the German Navy and Merchant Marine at the Potsdam Conference"
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• Lorna Sopcak: "Memory Contests: Erinnerung vs. Gedächtnis"
Russian Literature and Art
- • Irena Galloway: Alexei Tolstoy's Early Political-Historical Writings"
• Radha Balasubramanian and Thomas Winter: "Inherently Russian and Inherently Roman: Tolstoy's Miniature MasterpieceAlyosha the Pot"
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• Cadra Peterson McDaniel "Soviet Identity: Socialist Realism and Imperial Traditions"
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Spanish History
- • Dieudonné Afatsawo: Where Has the Future Gone? Explaining La Generación Ni-Ni/The Neither-Nor Generation in Spain"
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Music
- • Rossella Marisi: "From Opera to Operatic Arrangements: François Borne's Fantaisie brillante sur thèmes de Carmen
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Anthony Jung Best Graduate Paper Winners
- • Gerry A. Wolfson-Grande: "'The Beste Game of Alle': Playing Chess with Fortune in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and the Knight's Tale"
• Annett Wienmeister: "Move Beyond Kant? - The Autopoiesis School on Life and Cognition"
2010
The 2010 Assistant Editors:
- Jeremy Baguyos (Music)
- Gwyneth Cliver (Foreign Languages)
- Halla Kim (Philosophy)
- Orville Menard (Political Science)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Michael Skau (English)
- Stephen Torres (Foreign Languages)
- Barbara Simcoe (Art History)
French History and Literature
- • Miriam Krepps: "French Identity, French Heroes: From Vercingétorix to Vatel"
• Sylvie Shires: "Chrestien de Troyes's Erec and Enide or Marriage Revisited"
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German history, literature and philosophy
- • Sean Eedy: "Commemoration and Commiseration: Memory Conflicts and Their Effects as Present in the 20th Anniversary of the Mauerfall"
• Jane Freeland: "Subversion and the “Domestication” of Socialism in Egon Günther’s film Her Third"
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• Michael Meade: "The Use of History in Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien"
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• Eckhard Rölz "From Ailments of the Soul to Psychoanalysis: So Who Inspired Sigmund Freud?"
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Spanish Literature and History
- • Daniel Arroyo-Rodriguez: "The Unfinished War: Guerrilla Warfare in Spanish Post-War Cultural Discourse"
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Music
- • Kasey M. Mattia: "The 'Triumph' of Henrietta Maria: The Queen's Voice in The Triumph of Peace"
• Victoria Lynn Rodrigue: "Operetta and the Myth of Vienna: Viennese Identity in Johann's Strauss's Die Fiedermaus"
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• Cole Burger: "Pianistic and Philosophical Connections between Franz Liszt and Olivier Messiaen"
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Political Science and Business
- • Richard Emery: "Tax Policy and the Financial Crisis in Europe"
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Linguistic and Language Issues
- • Bojan K Lazarevic, et al: "Reform in Progress: Current Trends and Concerns in Developing Education Management Information Systems in the South East European Countries"
• A.A. Atabekova and R. G. Gorbatenko: "Legal Translation Issues: Challenges and Solutions"
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2009
The 2009 Assistant Editors:
- Orville Menard (Political Sciences)
- Halla Kim (Philosophy)
- Bruce Garver (History)
- Moshe Gershovich (History)
- Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages)
- Gwyneth Cliver (Foreign Languages)
- Ana Carballal (Foreign Languages)
- Carolyn Gascoigne, (Foreign Languages)
- Michael Peterson (Geography)
- Jeremy Baguyos (Music)
European History
- • Ralph W. Buechler: "The German Enlightenment, Travel and the Road to Paris and the Revolution: The Anomaly of Georg Forster"
• Thomas Conner: "The Last Public Execution in France: The Life and Times of Eugène Weidmann"
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• Fabio Capiano: "Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe: The Trieste Question and the 'Invisible Wall' 1945-1975"
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• Paul Levitt: "Stalin's Barber"
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European Literature
- • Michael Meade: "Elements of the Masque and Ballet de Cour Traditions in Works of Beaujoyeux, Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe"
- • Dieudonné Afatsawo: "African, Immigrant, and Writer: Literary Immigration into the Spanish Language"
- • Maria Teresa Maenza-Vanderboegh: "Tahar Lamri’s I sessanta nomi dell'amore (2007). The Limits of the Italian Language to Say Love"
- • Caldwell: "The European Origins of Lynn Nottage's Ruined"
Political Sciences
- • Frank P. Le Veness and Juan M. Fernandez "A Fractured Alliance: European Security Policy in the 21st Century"
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Linguistics
European Music
- • Rossella Marisi: "Flute Sonatas by Marcello and Handel: a comparison"
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2008
The 2008 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)
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"
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• Orville D. Menard: "Gastronomy, Cuisine, and Political Symbolism in France"
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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"
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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"
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• Robert Bello: "Barcelona, 1939-1945: Franco Regime Manipulations of Mass Culture During the Early Years of the Post-Civil War Period"
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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"
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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"
2007
The 2007 Assistant Editors:
- Carolyn Gascoigne (Foreign Languages)
- Halla Kim (Philosophy)
- Charles Johanningsmeier (English)
- Michael Skau (English)
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"
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• Jean-Pierre Lalande: "The French Left in Crisis – the Socialist Party Needs More Than a Facelift"
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Philosophy
- • William O'Meara: "Kierkegaard on Socrates: Know Thyself as Choose Thyself"
• Spencer Davis: "Isaiah Berlin on Romanticism"
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• Michael Meade: "Goethe's Torquato Tasso: The Conflict between the Ideal World of the Poet and the Real World of Politics and Commerce."
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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"
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• Irena Galloway: "The Image of the Russion Society during the Revolution in Alexei Tolstoy's Novel The Ordeal"
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• Ana Carballal: "Castelao and the Generation of 1898: History and Topics"
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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
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• Marie C. Miller: "Eusebius and Florestan: The Duality of Robert Schumann, Composer and Music Critic"
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• William B. Sieger: "Literary Texts and Formal Strategies in Emil Nolde's Religious Paintings"
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• Mike McKeon "Locating the Viewer in Formalist Aesthetic Theory and French Neoclassical Art"
2006
Literature and Art
- • Lisa Kellerby: "Medusa: Ekphrasis and Iconography in The Faerie Queene"
• Walter I. Kolonosky: "Sinyavsky's Literary Games: Versions of the Nabokov Edition?"
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• Ralph Buechler: "Final Days in East Berlin: Thomas Brussig's "Heroes like us"
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• David Caldwell: "Horst Fascher and Germany's Lifeline to International Culture"
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• Dan Naegele: "Duchamp's Doors and Windows"
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Linguistics and Pedagogy
- • Eduardo Gonzáles: "English now and in the Future: One World Language?"
- • Malgosia Jedynak: "Does It Make Sense to Torture Our Learners with Standard English Pronunciation? Teaching Implications of Polish Students' Attitudes to RP and GA"
• Mila Saskova-Pierce: "Distance Delivery of Beginning Foreign Language: the case of Czech"
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Philosophy and Religion
- • Dean G. Stroud: "Preaching in Hitler's Shadow: Barth's 1933 Advent Sermon as Christian Response to National Socialism"
- • Corey McCall: "Foucault, Iran, and the Question of Religious Revolt"
- • Spenser Davis: "The Open Society"
• Andrew Hamilton: "Benjamin Vaughan's Argument for Free Trade and Peace in the Eighteenth Century"
European/Human Security and Terrorism
- • Sanjida M.B. Siraj: "Is European Union the Right Factor for Implementing Human Security?"
• Daniel Rueth: "Law, War and The Principle of Discrimination: An European Example"
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• Paul Wallace: "Terrorism and European/Iraq Security: Alternatives to Ethnic Cleansing"
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Specific Issues on France
- • Tom Conner: "The Dreyfus Affair and the Emergence of the French Public Intellectual"
• Jean-Pierre Lalande: "Last Hired - First Fired: Political Rivalries and Personal Ambitions Versus Genuine Reforms of the Employment Process in France"
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Europe in the 21st Century
- • Frank LeVeness: "Reform of the United Nations Security Council: An Italian Perspective"
• Jim Martin: "Mixed Electoral Systems: MMM vs MMP: Unique Systems or Two Sides of the Same Coin?"
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• Kimberly S. Loontjer: "The Russian Dilemma: Achieving Stable Federalism and Preserving the Market Economy"
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• Richard F. Emery: "A Look at Ireland Early in the 21st Century" Excel formatted tables for download: IrelandTable1.xl, IrelandTable2.xls, IrelandTable3.xls, IrelandTable4.xls
2005
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Literature, Film, and Philosophy
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• The Riflemen from Ifni by Dieudonné Afatsawo
• From North Africa to Spain by Alicia Rico
• Theoretical Conceptualization of Immigration and Exile in Alfonso Rodriguez Castelao by Ana Carballal
• Postfreedom Knights Battling Manifest Manners in Scotland by Ryan Diehl
• Irrelevant Borders? Central and Southern European Immigrants in Recent German Film by Daniel C. Villanueva
• Introduction to Viktoria Tokareva's Life and Works by Rhada Balasubramamanian and Liubov Popov
• The Use of History in T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, Henri de Montherlants Port-Royal, and Rolf Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter. by Michael Meade
• No Bad Genres: The Undisciplined Disciples of the French Enlightenment by Taddy Kalas and David Dehnel
Business
• The Future of Commercial Aviation by Jason Oshiokpekhai• It Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed? A Look at the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact by Richard Emery Download attached files: SGP Table 1.xls , SGP Table 2.xls
• The Role of Translators-Interpreters in Contemporary Society in the US and in Europe: Luxury or Necessity? by Eduardo González-Muñoz
• Generation X and Generation Golf: What Advertisers Need to Know When Targeting German and American Thirty-Somethings by Frauke Hachtmann
• The French Love Affair with Online Information Systems by Heather Lea Moulaison
European Politics
- • Euronationalism: The Discursive Development of a European Right by John Taylor
• Saying "Non": The French Rejection of the European Constitution and its Global Implications by Tom Conner
• The Problem of Kosovo's Final Status by Marta Vrbetic
Social Sciences
- • A Cross National Study of Criminal Gangs: A National Security Threat? by Jim Martin