Geneseo hosted the New York State Association of European Historians’ Annual Meeting for the first time since 1998 over the weekend of October 3-4. Scholars from across the state and country participated in this academic conference, with several panels devoted to the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Geneseo alumni Todd Goehle, Kristin Burger Cruz, and Rick Fogarty presented original research at the conference and Professor Helena Waddy gave the keynote address on “Romantic Royals: The Anglo-German Connection from Britain’s George IV to Bavaria’s Ludwig II”.