Claremont
UC Undergraduate Research Conference
on the European Union 2008
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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 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) 4:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Panel 2: Environmental Policy (Discussant: Ian Clark, European Commission) 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner 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 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 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) 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. Panel 7: Monetary and Trade Policies (Discussant: Professor Richard Burdekin, Claremont McKenna College) 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) 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Panel 9: Law and Legal Regimes (Discussant: Professor Nigel Boyle, Pitzer College) 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) 3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Panel 11: EU as Global Superpower (Professor Wade Jacoby, BYU) 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
Breakfast (Claremont DoubleTree Hotel), Check-out and Departure
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