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RMESC
Schedule: Saturday, October 20, 2007
The Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium (RMESC)
4th Annual Conference on “Europe’s Diversity”
School of International Letters and Cultures
Arizona State University

Saturday, October 20 , 2007
Morning Sessions
BA 353 BA 365
9:00 - 10:30

Session I–Development and Growth
Problems.

Session J–Critical Perspectives on European Modernity

9:00 - 10:30

9:00-9:30

Croft, Lee. Arizona State University.
Declining Automotive Diversity in the 20th Century: The Fate of Nine European Marques.

Brown, William. Mesa State College (Colorado). Metahistory, Crisis, and “The Lived Myth” in Thomas Mann’s “Disorder and Early Sorrow.”

9:00-9:30

9:30-10:00

Dall’erba, Sandy. University of Arizona.
Impact of Structural Funds on Regional Growth: How to Reconsider a 7 Year-Old Black Box.
Freeman, Michael R. Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. Retaining Critical Authority: Mark Tobey and European Modernism 9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30

Jacoby, Wade. Brigham Young University.
The EU and Central Europe

Orlich, Ileana. Arizona State University.
Magic Realism as Narrative Discourse
in Recent Romanian Fiction.

10:00-10:30
Moderator: Sylvain Gallais, ASU
Moderator: Ileana Orlich, ASU
Pause - 10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45-12:15

Session K–Power and Justice

 

Session L–Cultural Diversity

 

10:45-12:15
10:45-11:05

Clarke, Kris. California State University. Fresno. Ethnicized Bodies and the Nordic Welfare State: Notions of Cultural Competence in Finnish Social Work

Elorrieta, Jabier. Arizona State University. The Basque Conflict and the Apparent Clash of Ethnic vs Civic Nationalism.

10:45-11:15
11:05-11:25 Niebuhr, Robert. Boston College. Department of History. A Struggle for the Hearts and Minds: Ideology and Yugoslavia’s Third Way to Paradise. Reese, Marilya V. Northern Arizona University. Dealing with the Baggage: Zehra Cirak’s & Juergen Walter’s Integrationskoffer 11:15-11:45
11:25-12:45

Stedham, Yvonne. University of Nevada Reno. Business Ethics – A Justice Perspective: A comparative Study of German and Italian Business Students
Moderator: Sylvain Gallais

Wilson, Lindsay. Northern Arizona University. Diversity in Science: Gender, Nationality, and Method. Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) andthe Parisian Society of Psychoanalysis

11:45-12:45
Moderator: Sylvain Gallais, ASU
Moderator: Peter Horwath, ASU
12:15-1:15 Lunch on your own

Saturday, October 20, 2007
Afternoon Sessions

BA 353 BA 365
1:15-2:45

Session M–Economic Changes and Identities. - 20 minute presentations

Session N–Identities in Literary Reflection -20 minute sessions 1:15-2:45
1:15-1:35

Bryson, Phillip J.; Brigham Young University.
European Union Regional Economic Development Policies: Their Past and Prospects.

Enders, Victoria Loree. Northern Arizona University. Gender and Nationalism in early 20th Century Catalonia.

1:15-1:35
1:35-1:55 Gallais, Sylvain. Arizona State University.
European Diversity as a Common Wealth
Watson, William Van. University of Arizona. Calvino, Monty Python and the Archaic Patriarchy of the Holy Grail. 1:35-1:55
1:55-2:15 Kresl, Peter. Bucknell University. The Economic Consequences for EU Cities of an Aging Population. Gruzinska, Aleksandra. Arizona State University. Octave Mirbeau’s La 628-E8 as an Expression of Europe’s Diversity. 1:55-2:15
2:15-2:35 Kurzer, Paulette. University of Arizona.
Strength in Diversity? How the European Commission Takes On New Policy Fields in an Enlarged EU.
  2:15-2:35
Moderator: Peter Kresl, ASU
Moderator: Aleksandra Gruzinska, ASU
Pause - 2:45-3:00 - Break
3:00-4:00 BA 353 3:15-4:00
3:00-4:00

Conference-Wide Assembly II―“The future of RMESC”
Presiding: Giuseppe Candela, Chair
Lee Croft, Co-Chair; David Foster, Co-chair


Plans for a Consortium; University[ies] support
Finances, Bank Account, PayPal option
Exploring Future Grants
Publication of Connections 2008 [4th Annual Conference of RMESC]
     Deadline for submitting final version of paper
     Peer reviews [anonymous]
Planning the 5th Annual RMESC Conference
Other/New Business
Conference Evaluation/Appreciation/Comments/A safe return home
3:00-4:00