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Teaching the Polish Experience

  
Sponsored by
 
The Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America
and
Polish American Historical Association
 
Will take place at
The Kosciuszko Foundation
15 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10021

March 28, 2008

9:15 Welcome by Jacek Galazka, President of the Pilsudski Institute
Dr. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, President of Polish American Historical Association

9.30 – 12:00 Panel I:

Teaching Polish History in the United States
Chair: Prof. Piotr Wandycz

Dr. John J. Kulczycki - “Factors Affecting the Teaching of Polish History in Chicago.”

Dr. Mieczyslaw Biskupski - "Making the Exotic Meaningful: Polish History among Others"

Dr. Neal Pease – “"Poland: The Exceptional Universal Country."

Dr. John Radzilowski - "Teaching Polish History in America: A Hopeless Case--with Exceptions?"

Prof.. Slawomir Jozefowicz - "Teaching the Polish Experience to US and EU students - a comparison"

12.15-1.30 Lunch

1.30 –3.30 Panel II:

Teaching History of Polonia in the United States
Chair: Dr. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann

Dr. John Guzlowski - "Connecting: Alternate Methods for Teaching about Polonia."

Dr. James Pula – “Barriers to Teaching Polish-American History: Internal and External."

Dr. Mary Erdmans – “Integrating Polish Americans into the Curriculum”

3.30-4.30 Round Table:
Chair: Prof. Piotr Wandycz

Dr. John Micgiel -
"Teaching the Polish Experience in the Unfriendly Era of Globalization."

Dr. Thaddeus V. Gromada - "My Experiences as Chairman of NJ Governor's Commission on Eastern European History". in the late 1980's.”

Prof. Andrzej Rabczenko, Polish Embassy - “Recovering Forgotten History - The Image of East-Central Europe in American Textbooks.”

Financial assistance: Polish Senate with cooperation of Semper Polonia Foundation.
Our thanks to the Kosciuszko foundation for hosting this event!

Pilsudski Institute of America
 

cordially invites you to the book discussion
with
  

Dr. Michael Alfred Peszke

author of the book:
    

The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II

Friday, April 27, 2007 at 6 PM

    
180 Second Ave, (between 11 & 12 St.), New York. Tel. 212-505-9077

The discussion will be held in English language.

Catalog of Collections

   
Financed by the Senate of the Polish Republic and the SEMPER POLONIA Foundation the catalog is an attractive and well edited publication, providing a short history of the Institute, a biography of Jozef Pilsudski and a richly illustrated description of collections which consist of a documentary archive, library, gallery of Polish paintings as well as photographs, maps, medals, sculptures, stamps, postcards and coins.
 
The Pilsudski Institute was founded in July of 1943 and is a center of historical studies with special emphasis on the correction of errors which arose under the German and Soviet occupations and the communist regime. Today, thanks to its modernization which included the computerization of its archives – accessible now on the website www.pilsudski.org - the Institute is becoming a modern educational and research institution.
 
The catalog can be obtained at the Institute in Manhattan at 180 Second Avenue, (between 11th and 12 th streets), New York NY 10003, or by mail. E-mail address info@pilsudski.org  Suggested donation $10.

- Przeglad Polski Oct 6, 2006

48 full color bilingual pages, 5.5” x 8.5”

Poland’s First Lady visits Pilsudski Institute in New York

Mrs Maria Kaczynska visited the Institute on September 18 while President Kaczynski was attending the meeting of the United Nations. The First Lady took great interest in the original battle order for the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, dictated by Marshal Pilsudski, as well as his handwritten letters. Mrs Kaczynska admired the state-of-the-art archives of the Institute, the library of 23,000 volumes and a gallery of Polish paintings which exhibits 60 masterpieces by prominent Polish painters. Nearly 200 more Polish paintings are displayed throughout the building which the Institute rents from the Polish National Alliance of Chicago. The Institute has a bilingual web site www.pilsudski,org which attracts 5,000 visitors a month.

Jacek Gałązka, Maria Kaczyńska, dr Iwona Korga, Andrzej Ziobroń

Polish Foreign Policy: 

Past, Present and Future 

The Pilsudski Institute and the Polish Studies Program at the Columbia University in New York have jointly sponsored a one day ( November 17, 2005) conference dedicated to this important topic. A dozen scholars presented their views, in three panels and a round table, including two guests from Poland, Prof. Andrzej Nowak from the Jagiellonian University and Prof. Marek Konrat from Polish Academy of Sciences and Prof. Piotr Wandycz. Prof. John Micgiel ( both members of the Board of Directors of the Institute), Prof. Anna Cienciala, Prof. M.B. Biskupski and Prof. Andrzej Harsimowicz. Prof. Timothy Snyder of Yale University and Prof. Frank Sysyn of University of Alberta made their first appearance at a Pilsudski Institute event. Prof. Wandycz planned and organized the sessions with expert help from Prof. John Micgiel of Columbia University.

The keynote address by Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a masterful survey of Poland’s position in the international community and a challenging proposal for Poland’s future foreign policy.

The event was aided by the Senate of the Polish Republic and the SEMPER POLONIA Foundation in Warsaw. 

      
The Institute helped organize a meeting at the Polish Consulate in New York on June 10th to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Hippocrene Books and its Polish program. Nowy Dziennik and the Consulate were co-sponsors of this well-attended event. Two new publications of Hippocrene Books were presented at the meeting: 
 

FIGHTING WARSAW

 by Stefan Korbonski with a new preface by Zofia Korbonska

 
and

Enigma: 
How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code

 by Wladyslaw Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak

Co-author Jerzy Straszak took part in the meeting together with his wife, Ita Romer Straszak, who was the book's project editor. 

Dr. George and Mrs. Ludmilla Blagowidow, founders of Hippocrene Books, received the medal "Amicus Poloniae" awarded by the Ambassador of Poland in recognition of the company's great contribution to the promotion of Polish culture in the English-speaking world.

A similar meeting was held on September 8th, at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C. in which Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Polish Ambassador, Przemyslaw Grudzinski, took part. Professor Brzezinski called the Polish Enigma team the "unknown victors of World War II."