David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, "Intercultural Dialogue," was held 10–11 October 2008 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

See the 2008 link on the left menu for details.

Registration Sections

Lunch provided by RMESC has been changed from Saturday to Friday.

Conference Registrant with Saturday Lunch: $30
BYU Benefited Employees/Spouses Registrant with Saturday Lunch: $0 ($30 registration fee will be collected from BYU
Benefits Services)
Student Registrant without Saturday Lunch: $0
Student Registrant with Saturday Lunch: $8
Presenter Registrant with Saturday Lunch: $0
Student Presenter Registrant with Saturday Lunch: $0

Registration Options (must also register for a Registration Section):
Salt Lake City Excursion Friday Evening: $10
½ Credit of El ED 514R: $30
½ Credit of SC ED 514R: $30

To be transferred to the registration page and for more information, click here.

2006 Conference Schedule

6–7 October, Brigham Young University

Schedule (PDF)

Conference Activities

FridayMorning
Spencer W. Kimball Tower Tour of BYU Campus
Friday before lunch we will go to the top of the tower for a bird’s eye view of the BYU campus. A guide from BYU hosting will point out the various landmarks of BYU and provide information about the unique aspects of BYU.
Friday Evening
SLC Excursion
We have also made arrangements for an optional excursions to Salt Lake City on Friday evening, 6 October. The cost for the trip will be $10 (select the Salt Lake City Excursion option when you register) . While in Salt Lake City, you will visit Historic Temple Square, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, the Gateway Olympic Plaza, and/or other locations. The group will leave in a BYU van after Friday’s conference sessions and will return to Provo at 9:00 P.M. We will have a group leader who will provide a basic tour and lead a dinner group for those interested.Though those on the excursion do not have to remain with the group, they must rejoin it by 9:00 P.M. if they want to return to Provo with the van.

Provo Dinner Groups
For those wishing to stay in Provo, we are organizing various dinner groups for Friday evening. Each group will be taken to a restaurant in the Provo/Orem area for an opportunity to relax and get to know others at the conference. Participation in the dinner groups is free, but you will need to pay the cost of your meal. Prior to the meal, those interested may join us for a short drive up Provo Canyon and then a short walk to Bridal Veil Falls and Nunn’s Park. Dinner sign-ups and restaurant menus will be placed at the registration desk Friday morning.

Venue Information

The 2006 conference will be held at BYU's Conference Center, located on the corner of 900 East and University Parkway.

Maps
Salt Lake City to Provo (image)
Provo to BYU campus (image)
Map of BYU campus (PDF)
Map of BYU campus (flash)

Directions to BYU Campus
I-15 Southbound:

About 45 miles from Salt Lake City, take Exit 269 (University Parkway exit). Turn east (left towards the mountains) at the off-ramp traffic signal.
Stay on University Parkway and drive east through Orem and down the hill into Provo.
To reach the BYU Conference Center (CONF), continue on University Parkway until you cross University Avenue, pass the BYU LaVell Edwards Stadium on your left, and the BYU Marriott Center on your right.
The Conference Center is on the right side of the road past the Marriott Center parking lot.
Free parking is available directly west of the conference center.

I-15 Northbound:

Take the BYU/University Avenue exit off I-15.
Drive north along University Avenue past Provo Center Street.
To reach the BYU Conference Center (CONF), turn right at the University Parkway traffic signal (just before the BYU LaVell Edwards Stadium) and stay on University Parkway until you pass the Marriott Center on your right.
The Conference Center is on the right side of the road past the Marriott Center parking lot.
Free parking is available directly west of the conference center.

Lodging

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Super 8 Motel located at 1555 North Canyon Road in Provo, Utah. You may reserve rooms at a special conference rate of $49/night by calling (801) 374-6020 or toll free at 1-800-800-8000 no later than 22 September 2006. You must tell the reservation agent that you are attending the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium Conference to receive the conference rate.

Airport-to-Hotel Transportation
Express Shuttle is available to transport you to and from the airport. Their telephone number is (800) 397-0773. (It is approximately a one-hour drive from the Salt Lake City International Airport to Provo.) We strongly encourage you to make shuttle reservations ahead of time to avoid waiting at the airport. If you choose to make arrangements upon arrival, you will find the shuttle service counters located across from baggage claim. Car rental is also available at the Salt Lake City International Airport.

For tourist, dining, or other lodging information, contact the Utah Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau at 1-800-222-8824 or visit http://www.utahvalley.org.

Things to Do In and Around Provo

This page will continue to be updated as the conference dates approach.

PROVO

Friday Evening
SLC Excursion
We have also made arrangements for an optional excursion to Salt Lake City on Friday evening, 6 October. The cost for the trip will be $10 (select the Salt Lake City Excursion option when you register). While in Salt Lake City, you will visit Historic Temple Square, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, the Gateway Olympic Plaza, and/or other locations. The group will leave in a BYU van after Friday's conference sessions and will return to Provo at 9:00 P.M. We will have a group leader who will provide a basic tour and lead a dinner group for those interested. Though those on the excursion do not have to remain with the group, they must rejoin it by 9:00 P.M. if they want to return to Provo with the van. For more information, please contact Chrystine Whyte (chrystine.whyte@byu.edu).

Provo Dinner Groups
For those wishing to stay in Provo, we are organizing various dinner groups for Friday evening. Each group will be taken to a restaurant in the Provo/Orem area for an opportunity to relax and get to know others at the conference. Participation in the dinner groups is free, but you will need to pay the cost of your meal. Prior to the meal, those interested may join us for a short drive up Provo Canyon and then a short walk to Bridal Veil Falls and Nunn's Park. Dinner sign-ups and restaurant menus will be placed at the registration desk Friday morning.

Museum of Art Exhibit
BYU Museum of Art is hosting German artist Candida Höfer in her first United States retrospective: Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence will be on view beginning 15 September and through the RMESC conference. The exhibition includes fifty photographs. For more than thirty years, Höfer has photographed rooms in public places. The monograph Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence, published by the Aperture Foundation, New York, will accompany the exhibition.

Types & Typologies: German Photographers from the Norton Museum of Art, 15 September 2006–6 January 2007
A companion exhibition to Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence that gives an overview of the stylistic heritage to which Höfer's work is indebted.

Just Enough Is More: The Graphic Design of Milton Glaser, on view through 7 October 2006, will explore the conceptual development of Glaser's work from preliminary drawings to finished designs and reveal how he arrives at successful designs by including "just enough." The approximately 170 works in this exhibition will include original drawings, sketchbooks, paintings, lithographs, silk screens and mass-produced posters that will give viewers an intimate look into Glaser's design process by exploring the evolution of his designs, as well as the ways in which his use of specific conceptual elements informs his artistic conclusions.

The Intimate Eye: Drawings by Burton Silverman, 29 July–25 November 2006, will feature thirty drawings that span Silverman's career of more than four decades. His work has appeared in New Yorker Magazine "Profiles," and on the covers of Time Magazine, Newsweek, and New York Magazine. He has designed dozens of postage stamps, and the Society of Illustrators elected him to the Hall of Fame in 1990. Although intended as a teaching exhibition for the many drawing students on campus, the technical virtuosity and sheer visual appeal of Silverman's figurative studies will appeal to a large and appreciative audience.

BYU Theatre
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night will be performed 3–7 October at 7:30 P.M., and there will be a Saturday matinee 7 October at 2:00 P.M. Click here for tickets and more information.

Check back often for our continuing updates!

Faculty and Graduate Student Call for Papers/Abstracts

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Submission Deadline: Thursday, 15 June 2006

The 2006 conference theme is "Europe: Past and Present." Faculty and graduate students are invited to propose papers, presentations, and workshops on the following areas:

• European history
• European languages
• Europe and the arts
• European popular culture
• European identities
• Paradoxes of Europe
• The European Union
• Issues of sovereignty
• Nation-states and nationalist movements
• Transatlantic relations
• Globalization and Europe
• Immigration in Europe
• Social issues (education, justice, social welfare, religion)
• European economics
• European regional stability
• The study of Europe in the Rocky Mountain region

This is a suggested list; sessions dealing with related topics will be considered.

Presentation Formats

INDIVIDUAL presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes of reading or presentation time (typically, about ten pages, doublespaced); there will be additional time for questions depending on format. The organizing committee will group related, individually submitted papers into themed sessions.

PANELS last one hour and forty-five minutes. These usually consist of four, fifteen to twenty minute paper presentations (eight–ten, doublespaced pages each), with a short introduction by the chair, and may include brief (e.g., five minutes) closing remarks by a discussant. However, panel chairs are free to propose innovative structures for their sessions.

WORKSHOPS are one hour and forty-five minutes and should focus on issues of professional development (grant writing to fund research in Europe, incorporating Europe into the curriculum, etc.).

Submission and Acceptance Procedures

All proposals will be peer reviewed. Contributors will be notified of acceptance by Friday, 14 July. Select papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in the RMESC e-journal, Connections. Final versions of individual papers submitted for consideration in Connections will be due on Wednesday, 1 November 2006. A second round of peer review will follow, and accepted and revised papers will be published in spring 2007.

Each submission should include:

• Title of presentation in CAPS
• Topic area (see list above)
• Presentation format
• Name(s) of presenter(s)
• Institutional affiliation(s) (including department)
• Address, phone number, and e-mail address of presenter for individual paper
OR of panel/forum/workshop organizer
• 200-word abstract of individual papers (including each paper prepared for panels) OR 500-word descriptions of panels or workshops

Submissions must be sent electronically or postmarked by midnight Thursday, 15 June 2006.

Electronic abstract submissions should be cut and pasted into the body of
the e-mail text or attached as a Word or Rich Text Format and sent to:

RMESCConference@byu.edu

Mail proposals to:

Conference Organizing Committee
RMESC
Center for the Study of Europe
216 HRCB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

RMESC Submission Style Guidelines

Undergraduate Session Call for Papers/Abstracts

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Submission Deadline: Monday, 11 September 2006

Brigham Young University’s Center for the Study of Europe is pleased to announce the first undergraduate session of the annual conference of the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium. The conference provides a multidisciplinary opportunity for scholars from throughout the Mountain West to present their research on European topics in a challenging forum for the examination and evaluation of the shifting shape and meaning of Europe. This year we are inviting BYU students to participate in a special, undergraduate only, concurrent session of the conference.

The 2006 conference theme is "Europe: Past and Present." Faculty and graduate students are invited to propose papers, presentations, and workshops on the following areas:

• European history
• European languages
• Europe and the arts
• European popular culture
• European identities
• Paradoxes of Europe
• The European Union
• Issues of sovereignty
• Nation-states and nationalist movements
• Transatlantic relations
• Globalization and Europe
• Immigration in Europe
• Social issues (education, justice, social welfare, religion)
• European economics
• European regional stability
• The study of Europe in the Rocky Mountain region

This is a suggested list; sessions dealing with related topics will be considered.

Presentation Formats

Individual presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes of reading or presentation time (typically, about ten pages double-spaced); there will be additional time for questions

Submission and Acceptance Procedures

All proposals will be reviewed. Contributors will be notified of acceptance by Friday, 22 September. We hope to publish some of the papers in an electronic journal. Those who wish to be considered for publication will need to submit final versions of their papers by Friday, 1 November following the conference. A second round of review will occur with requests for revision, and revised, accepted papers will be published in spring 2007.

Each submission should include:

• Title of presentation in CAPS
• Topic area (refer to list)
• Presentation format
• Name(s) of presenter(s)
• Department and Major
• Address, phone number, and e-mail address of presenter
• 300-word abstract

Submissions must be sent electronically or postmarked by midnight Thursday, 15 June 2006.

Electronic abstract submissions should be cut and pasted into the body of the email text or attached as a Word or Rich Text Format file. Send electronic abstracts to RMESC Conference

Mail or bring proposals to:

Conference Organizing Committee
BYU European Undergraduate Scholars Session
Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium
Center for the Study of Europe
216 HRCB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

Additional Information
The Center for the Study of Europe will cover all presenters’ registration costs. Registration fees for non-presenters will be $20. Late registration will begin two weeks before the conference begins and will be $30 for non-presenters. Registration for full-time BYU students and faculty will be covered by the university. Registration will include entrance to the full conference venue.
For more information, including registration details, visit our web site at: http://europe.byu.edu/RMESC.html. Please check the web site regularly for updates on the conference and its various activities.

RMESC Submission Style Guidelines

Contact Information

RMESC
216 HRCB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
(801) 422-6277
rmescconference@byu.edu

Displays and Booths

Departments, centers, and individuals at BYU and from other universities and institutions are invited to display their research and projects, information about upcoming conferences, and other programs related to Europe at the conference. While they can be used for advertising, they cannot, for legal reasons, be used to sell products. This can be a very effective means of introducing others to your research, projects, organizations, and upcoming events.

If you would like a booth or have items to display at the conference, please e-mail us by Friday, 22 September. Further information concerning times to man booths will be made available at that time.

Tables and backdrops will be made available for free. If you need AV equipment for your booth, you are invited to bring you own, or rented from BYU. Please contact Chrystine Whyte at BYU Conferences and Workshops, (801) 422-4903, to request and pay for equipment.