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Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Invites Embry-Riddle Professor to Warsaw to Honor National Anniversary

Daytona Beach, Fla., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has invited Dr. Douglas Selvage of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach campus to present a paper at an international conference honoring the 50th anniversary of the Polish reform movement that brought an end to Stalinism in Poland. Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga is scheduled to open the conference, which will take place in Warsaw on Oct. 19, 2006.

The conference, co-organized by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polish Institute for International Relations, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the “Polish October,” when national communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka returned to power and put an end to the most repressive aspects of Stalinism in Poland. Selvage will be presenting a paper on the reaction of the Eisenhower Administration to the October events in Poland.

Selvage, who recently joined Embry-Riddle as an assistant professor of history, specializes in modern German and Polish history and the history of international relations. Previously, he worked for five years as a documentary editor in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. He has received numerous awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. Selvage, who received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1998, has published widely on the history of the Cold War in U.S. and international publications.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 32,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through Worldwide campuses at more than 130 centers in the United States and Europe, and through online learning.