The next Annual Meeting of PAHA will take Place at New Orleans Marriott Hotel, on January 3-5, 2013.
PROGRAM
PAHA Annual Board Meeting
Thursday, January 3, 2013: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
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Themes in Polish and Polish American Arts, Letters, and Sciences
Friday, January 4, 2013: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
Chair: Pien Versteegh, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
Papers:
Constructing Femininity: The Monica Krawczyk Short Story Contests of the 1960s
- Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Between Myth and Stereotype: Tackling the Story of Polish American Inventors and Their Contributions - Slawomir Lotysz, University of Zielona Gora
The Career and Lyrics of Marion Lush: Their Significance for Polonia - Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Górecki in America: From Copernicus to Sorrowful Songs - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press
Comment: The Audience
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Casimir Pulaski: New Facts and Discoveries
Friday, January 4, 2013: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 10
Chair: Jack Pinkowski, Nova Southeastern University
Papers:
Forgotten Records of Casimir Pulaski's Birth and Death - Peter Obst, La Salle University
The Other Pulaskis: How They Changed Their Names to Become Impostors - Edward Pinkowski, Poles in America Foundation
Identifying Pulaski without DNA - Charles Merbs, Arizona State University
Comment: The Audience
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Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Polish American History
Friday, January 4, 2013: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
Chair: Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press
Papers:
The Polish Museum of America: Twenty-First-Century Developments -Geraldine Balut Coleman, Polish Museum of America
The Chene Street History Project: Documenting a Lost Detroit Neighborhood - Karen Majewski, University of Michigan
Death Comes to Polonia: Mortality among Polish Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century - John Radzilowski, University of Alaska Southeast
Comment: The Audience
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Polish and Polish American History in the Cold War
Friday, January 4, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
Chair: Brian McCook, Leeds Metropolitan University
Papers:
Joe Biden: Politics in the Polish American Community in Wilmington, Delaware - Thomas Duszak, State Library of Pennsylvania
"The Little UNO" at 769 First Avenue, New York, 1956–63 - Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
Spies from the Embassy: Polish Counter-intelligence Structures Responsible for Surveillance of American Diplomatic Posts, 1956–89 - Patryk Pleskot, Institute of National Remembrance
The Strategic Mind of Zbigniew Brzezinski: How a Native Pole Used Afghanistan to Protect His Homeland - J. B. White, Louisiana State University
Comment: The Audience
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Topics in Nineteenth-Century Polish and Polish American History
Saturday, January 5, 2013: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Papers:
The White Eagle with an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor: First Sergeant Peter Tolusciak - Annette Amerman, Marine Corps History Division
"Polish" Regiments in the U.S. Colored Troops during the American Civil War - Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdansk
Szlachcic As Model Gentleman: Poland, Partition, and the British Romantic Historical Novel - Adam Kozaczka, Syracuse University
A Portrait of New Orleans Polonia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - James Pula, Purdue University North Central
Comment: The Audience
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Polish Diaspora in America and Europe
Saturday, January 5, 2013: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
Chair: Theodore Zawistowski, Pennsylvania State University
Papers:
Interethnic Relations in Letters to the Editor in the Polish Language Press, 1902–69 - Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
The Politics of Memory and Exile within the Polish Diaspora in the United Kingdom, 1945–89 - Brian McCook, Leeds Metropolitan University
Explore Your East European Roots: A Guide to Genealogical Research - Barbara Pulaski, Mount Ida College - Francis Wolenski, Boston University
The Polish Diaspora in the Wider World: Polish Settlements in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1920–30 -
Pien Versteegh, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
Comment: The Audience
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Book Forum: Mikolaj Stanislaw Kunicki, Between the Brown and the Red
Saturday, January 5, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 5
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Papers:
Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland - Mikolaj S. Kunicki, University of Notre Dame
Comment: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
