ESC Selected Proceedings

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

• "The Newly Discovered Correspondence of Isabella de’ Medici and her Political Role in Renaissance Europe" 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.
• "The Europe of Wandering Strangers—Creatively viewed by an Estranged European Among Them, or, Danish Writer Homesteading Homelessness in Europe" Poul Houe, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
• "Jerónimo Tristante’s El misterio de la casa Aranda (“The Mystery of the Aranda House”): Tracing the Beginnings of the Police Procedural" 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

• "Hate Speech Online in Albania" Eva Teqja, Aleksander Moisiu University, Albania.
• "Changing Support among Different European Union (EU) Members During the First Year of the War in Ukraine" Ivan Dinev Ivanov, University of Cincinnati.