Welcome to our Winter 2026 edition!
After a little hiatus in 2025, we are back with another 22 intrepid Seattle University students who are exploring the Eurovision Song Contest for the next couple of months. Most of them hadn’t heard of Eurovision before January, most are brand new to higher education, and none of them are majoring in International Studies, so everything is a surprise!
The students are all taking this first-year humanities inquiry seminar as part of the university’s Core Curriculum – a general education program in the Jesuit educational tradition that provides all undergraduates a taste of different fields of inquiry.
Each student is examining a different country participating in the Eurovision Song Contest over the last decade. They’ll be posting their larger assignments as individual country blogs, each of which will be linked from this central site.
A public blog format is the chance for students to have a real audience, rather than just getting feedback from their professor.
We would love it if any of you who are either Eurovision fans or even Eurovision experts would check out the students’ work and offer kind and constructive feedback. Students have the opportunity to revise two written blog posts, so your feedback could really help them expand their knowledge and understanding, as well as honing their skills as communicators.
This year, students have chosen to study the following countries, organized into five peer groups that will provide each other feedback and support. (We'll be adding URLs to their sites as soon as they're available.)
BLUE GROUP: Albania | Croatia | Czechia | Serbia | Slovenia
GREEN GROUP: Cyprus | Greece | Iceland | Malta
PINK GROUP: Armenia | Azerbaijan | Georgia | Moldova | Ukraine
TURQUOISE GROUP: Finland | Latvia | Lithuania | Poland
YELLOW GROUP: Belgium | France | Netherlands | Spain
We look forward to your ideas, suggestions, links, and above all, encouragement. And if you have any thoughts or questions about this project and course as a whole, please drop us a line below in the comments.
