European Union Center of California

Below is the schedule for the 2008 conference panelists.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

12:00 – 2:30 p.m. Check-In (Claremont DoubleTree Hotel)

Shuttle leaves Claremont DoubleTree at 2:50pm – gather by front desk by 2:45pm
2:50 – 3:00 p.m. Transfer from Claremont DoubleTree to Scripps

3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Conference Registration and Reception, Vita Nova Conference Room and Courtyard (at EU Center Office)

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Welcome by Professor David Andrews, Director, European Union Center of California

4:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Panel 1: NATO (I): Adapting to the 21st Century (Discussant: Professor Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College)
Panel Location: Vita Nova 100
1. Sarah Boman, "Adapting to the Twenty-First Century: A Flexible NATO" Brigham Young University
2. Michael Lee, "Russia in NATO: Yes, No, Maybe So" Harvey Mudd College
3. Aleksandra Lencznarowicz, "The Proposed U.S. Missile Defense for Europe and the Old Continent's Reaction" San Francisco State University
4. Yigit Canay, "EU’s Common Foreign Policies Towards Russia: Past, Present and Future" Pitzer College

4:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Panel 2: Environmental Policy (Discussant: Ian Clark, European Commission)
Panel Location: Hampton Room, Malott Commons
1. Corinne Bell, "The Value of Economic Incentives in Meeting European Union Renewable Energy Goals" Drexel University
2. Brianna Hand, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Transatlantic Efforts at Supranational Climate Policy" UC Berkeley
3. Alina Palimaru, "Cutting CO2 Emissions and Limiting Business Influence: A New Architecture of Interest Representation in the European Union" Drexel University
4. Cynthia Ramirez, "International Cooperation to reduce CO2 Emissions: United States Holds Out" UC Berkeley
5. Anna Shyrokova, "Working Together: Analysis of European Union's Leading Role on Global Environmental Policy" UC Berkeley

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
(Malott Commons, Scripps College)

7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Free time – You can go back to the hotel, walk down to the village, or check out some of the local campus activities

Shuttle leaves Scripps at 9:00pm and 9:20pm – gather by shuttle drop-off by 8:55pm and 9:15pm
9:00 – 9:30 p.m. Shuttle Returns to Claremont DoubleTree

Friday, April 20, 2008

6:30 – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast (Claremont DoubleTree Hotel)

Shuttle leaves Claremont DoubleTree at 8:20am – gather by shuttle drop-off by 8:15am

8:45 – 10:15 a.m. Panel 3: National Identities and Multiculturalism (Discussant: Professor Elizabeth Creighton, Pomona College)
Panel Location: Hampton Room, Malott Commons
1. Andrew Christensen, "Answering the Immigration Problem: The Prospect of Post-National Identity in Denmark" Brigham Young University
2. Evan Jaroff, "The Basque Conflict: A Change in Nature and in Goals" Claremont McKenna College
3. Tovah King, "The Multilingual Union" UC Berkeley
4. Melis Tusiray, "An Acceptable Scandal? A Study of Public Responses to Xenophobic Political Rhetoric in Germany" UCLA

8:45 – 10:15 a.m. Panel 4: Representation and Decision-Making in the EU (Discussant: Professor David Arase, Pomona College)
Panel Room Location: Vita Nova 100
1. Elizabeth Degori, "Majority Voting in the EU: Beneficial or Just Equally Harmful?" Scripps College
2. Katherine Duncan, "Environmental Liability: A Case Study in EU Decision Making" University of Pennsylvania
3. Margalit Levin, "EU Regionalism as a Future Model: Good, Bad, Possible?" UC Berkeley
4. Mark Wes, "Biases in the WTO: What can the WTO learn from the EU" UC Berkeley

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 – 12:00 p.m. Panel 5: Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) and European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) (Discussant: Professor David Andrews, Scripps College)
Panel Location: Hampton Room, Malott Commons
1. Kate Ballard-Rosa, "Europe: Utopia or Just One of Us?" UC Berkeley
2. Zachary Davis, "The Evolving Indo-European Strategic Partnership" Brigham Young University
3. Jamie Hinrichs, "European Security and Defense" UCLA
4. John Sigety, "The Process of Competency: How Institutionalization and the EDSP Have Resulted in a More Competent CFSP" Brigham Young University

10:30 – 12:00 p.m. Panel 6: EU and the New Member States (Discussant: Patricia Dillon, Scripps College)
Panel Location: Humanities 204
1. Christopher Castaneda, "Targeting Digital Poverty in Centry and Eastern Europe" Pitzer College
2. Lauren Sims, "Big-Bang vs. Gradualism: The Czech Republic versus Hungary" Scripps College
3. Carissa Tudor, "Euro-adoption in Post-Communist Countries: The Case of the Czech and Slovak Republics" Claremont McKenna College
4. Sean de la Pena, "Russia, the European Union, and Energy Security" UC Berkeley

10:30 – 12:00 p.m. Panel 7: Monetary and Trade Policies (Discussant: Professor Richard Burdekin, Claremont McKenna College)
Panel Room Location: Vita Nova 100
1. Gary Chan, "Financial Economic Integration of the European Union" UC Berkeley
2. Guadalupe Garcia, "Strong Euro Weakening Dollar: A Potential Economic Demise" UC Berkeley
3. Marina Matsukevich, "Trade Liberalism and Protectionism" UC Berkeley
4. Michael Pimentel, "Practicality of monetary integration among the developmentally diverse European national economies" UC Berkeley

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (Hampton Room, Malott Commons) Keynote Address by Ian Clark, Head of the Research, Science, and Innovation unit in the European Commission's Directorate General for Environment

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Panel 8: NATO (II): National Policy Frameworks (Discussant: Professor Tom Ilgen, Pitzer College)
Panel Location: Hampton Room, Malott Commons
1. Mia Bennett, "Icy/Hot: Norwegian and Finnish Policy Towards the European Union" UCLA
2. David Drake, "Sarkozy's New Diplomacy: A Reassessment of the Third Rift in Franco-American Relations" Brigham Young University
3. Tristan Holley, "EU vs. NATO: A Case Study of Irish Neutrality Policies" Brigham Young University

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Panel 9: Law and Legal Regimes (Discussant: Professor Nigel Boyle, Pitzer College)

Panel Location: Vita Nova 100
1. Elena Cantiani, "Fundamental Rights in the United States and European Union" University of Rome Tor Vergata
2. Adrian Landa Guzman, "EU, US and Immigration" UC Berkeley
3. Kayla McCulley, "Playing by Market Rules: Anti-Doping Policy in the EU" Pomona College

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Panel 10: EU Relations with Turkey (Discussant: Profesor Donald Crone, Scripps College)
Panel Location: Vita Nova 100
1. Navjot Kaur, "Religious Club or Free Markets? Turkey Gaining European Union Acceptance" UC Berkeley
2. Jison Nam, "European Union's Enlargement and Turkey's Bid for Membership" UC Berkeley

3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Panel 11: EU as Global Superpower (Professor Wade Jacoby, BYU)
Panel Location: Hampton Room, Malott Commons
1. Roumiana Ivanova, "EU Enlargement: A Hard Edge to Europe's Soft Power" Harvard University
2. Robert King, "National Identity, Hegemony and Global Influence in the European Union" UC Berkeley
3. Milana Lostica, "Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Interdependent Nature of Global Imperialism and Global Terrorism" UC Berkeley
4. Justin Torrico, "The European Union as a Global Superpower" Pitzer College
5. Edward Yang, "European Union and the New World Order" UC Berkeley

5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Reception and Awards (Hampton Room, Malott Commons)

5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner (Malott Commons, Scripps College)

Shuttle leaves Scripps at 7:30pm and 8:00pm – gather by shuttle drop-off by 7:25pm and 7:55pm
7:30-8:00 p.m. Transfer from College to Claremont DoubleTree Hotel

Saturday, April 21, 2008

Breakfast (Claremont DoubleTree Hotel), Check-out and Departure

For more information about this conference and other programming by the European Union Center of California, please visit the Center’s website at www.eucenter.scrippscollege.edu