So far, we have presented five sessions and four more are scheduled for tomorrow. The topics include studies of contemporary Polish-American and Polish-Canadian literature, Polish participation in the Civil War, Solidarity topics - Walentynowicz, Wajda's Walesa, and returnees from emigration, great historical figures - Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Herbert Hoover, and astronomer Jan Brozek, and lesser known historical personalities - Father Suk, Alfred Jurzykowski, and Polish sportsmen. A session on memoirs brought together a discussion of diaries by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska as well as the mother of scholar Barbara Rylko-Bauer.
Polish American Literature
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM New York Hilton, Lincoln Suite; Chair: Pien Versteegh, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
• The Case against My Brother: The Intersection of History, Literature, and Ethnicity - Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• Patterns of Ethnicity in Polish American, Polish Canadian, and Anglo-Polish Fiction after 1989 - Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
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The Long Nineteenth Century: Themes in History
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM New York Hilton, Concourse B; Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Future War of John Bloch versus Norman Angell’s Great Illusion - Andrzej Pieczewski, University of Łódź
- To Save the Union; or, For the Just and Right Cause? Why Poles Fought in the Civil War, 1861–65 - Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdańsk and University at Buffalo (SUNY)
- The Battle of Maciejowice & Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s Myth - Anna Cortes, Polish Academy of Sciences
Solidarity: At Home and Abroad
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM New York Hilton, Lincoln Suite; Chair: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk
• To Be a Woman in the Male-Dominated World of the Lenin Shipyard Workers: Anna Walentynowicz’s Quest in Life - Anna Muller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
• Andrzej Wajda’s Solidarity Trilogy - Sheila Skaff, New York University
• The Return Migration of Solidarity Refugees - Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
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Figures in Polish and Polish American History
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM New York Hilton, Concourse B; Chair: John Radzilowski, University of Alaska, Southeast
• Father Theodore Suk: A Man of Faith - Barbara Pulaski, Mount Ida College
• Alfred Jurzykowski and his Foundation: A Brief Outline -
Czeslaw Karkowski, Hunter College and Mercy College
• Zbyszko, “The Mighty Pole”: Stanley Zbyszko, Polish Americans, and Sport in the Early Twentieth Century - Neal Pease, U. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Jan Brożek’s Contribution to Copernican Studies Originating from His Queries in Warmia in 1618 - Jan Chroboczek, Institute de Microélectronique, Électromagnétisme et Photonique
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World War II: Literature, Memoir, and Herbert Hoover’s Humanitarianism
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM New York Hilton, Lincoln Suite; Chair: Thomas Napierkowski, U. of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Encountering the Holocaust: The Cases of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska - Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin– Madison
• Integrating History, Memory, and Intimate Ethnography: A Polish Biography-Memoir of World War II, Immigration, and a Life Remade - Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Michigan State University
• Herbert Hoover, Poles, and Poland: An Inquiry into a Dynamic Relationship - Frederick J. Augustyn, Library of Congress
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There will be three more sessions on Sunday, January 4, 2015, two startign at 11:30 am and one at 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, when the 72nd Annual Meeting of PAHA will end.
Themes in the History of Polish Music
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM New York Hilton, Concourse E; Chair: Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
• The Impact of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz’s American Years on Spiewy Historyczne - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press
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Polish American History from the Seventeenth Century through the Mid-Twentieth Century
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
New York Hilton, Harlem Suite; Chair: Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• New Amsterdam or New Gdańsk? Polish Settlers in
New Amsterdam, 1624–64 - Pien Versteegh, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences and James Pula, Purdue University North Central
• KNAPP: The National Committee of Americans of Polish Descent - Charles Chotkowski, Piast Institute
The Eviction of the Kashube Fishermen of Jones Island Milwaukee: Then and Now - Ann Gurnack, University of Wisconsin–Parkside
• A New Polonia? The Recreation of Polish American Identity, 1918–45 - John Radzilowski, University of Alaska, Southeast
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The Aftermath of World War II
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM New York Hilton, Concourse F; Chair: Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Conn. State University
• Citizenship Practices during the Cold War: A Polish American Model? - Florence Vychytil-Baudoux, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
• Paralyzing the Polonia from Within: Communist Secret Police Infiltration of the Polish American Community - Pawel Styrna, Institute of World Politics
• Cold War Émigrés: Looking for Patterns in Exile Political Activism - Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
• Polish Refugees from Siberia in the United States, 1945–2014 - Iwona Korga, Józef Pilsudski Institute of America
• Defending the Remnants: American Jews Respond to Poland’s 1968 Anti-Zionist Campaign - Rachel Rothstein, University of Florida
