75th Anniversary Conference of PAHA at Loyola University Chicago, September 7-9, 2018

75th Anniversary Conference

of the Polish American Historical Association

7-9 September 2018, Loyola University Chicago

1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, Il 60660 

Conference Hotel: Hampton Inn, North Loyola Station, 

1209 W. Albion Ave., Chicago, Il 60626

The conference is free but registration is required for all events. polishamericanstudies.org/files/public/Registration75YearsPAHA.pdf

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

9:00 AM GREETINGS.  Welcome by Loyola University Chicago; Consul General of the Republic of Poland; Welcome by PAHA President

9:40 – 10:15 AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS: John Bukowczyk, PAHA within the field of US Ethnic History - past, present and future

10:30 AM –12:30 PM QUO VADIS POLISH AMERICAN STUDIES: 

THE PAHA JOURNAL AS A REFLECTION OF THE SCHOLARLY FIELD. 

Chair: Anna Jaroszyńska- Kirchmann

- A Brief History of PAS – James S. Pula 

- Labor and Working Class – Dominic Pacyga

- Polonia’s Organizations – Donald Pienkos

- Gender and Family – Mary Patrice Erdmans

- Literature – Grażyna Kozaczka

- Study of American Polonia and Scholars in Poland – Adam Walaszek

12:30 PM –  1:50 PM   LUNCH BREAK

2:00 PM – 3:20 PM  YOUNG SCHOLARS FORUM. Dorota Praszałowicz, Chair

3:30 PM – 4:50 PM PAHA’S NEW PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY. Neal Pease, Chair

- PAHA’s communication media, challenges and opportunities of the digital age – Maja Trochimczyk and Stephen Leahy

- Adjusting to the New Reality: Good Management Practices in Academia – Pien Versteegh

- PAHA and Polish American Community – Joint Projects: Polish American Travel Guide; Memoirs Project; Objects that Speak; Teaching Resources – panel discussion (Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Ewa Barczyk, Anna Muller, and Anna Mazurkiewicz)

6:00 PM BANQUET AT THE POLISH CONSULATE, CHICAGO

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

9:00 AM -11:00 AM POLISH AMERICAN HISTORY IN MUSEUMS

Dominic A. Pacyga, Chair; Anna Muller, Discussant

- Polish Museum in Chicago –Małgorzata Kot

- Muzeum Historii Polski w Warszawie – Anna Piekarska

- Chicago History Museum – John Russick

- Muzeum Emigracji, Gdynia – Sebastian Tyrakowski

- J. Piłsudski Institute – Iwona Korga

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM  CONCURRENT EVENTS

a) LOYOLA ARCHIVE TOUR with Nancy Freeman

b) FILM SCREENING (TBA)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM  LUNCH BREAK

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  PAHA 2018 HALECKI BOOK PRIZE 

Joanna Wojdon, White and Red Umbrella – Presentation of the Haiman Medal and Discussion of the Prize-winning Book 

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM  POLONIA ROUNDTABLE: Advancement and Promotion of Polish and Polish American Studies in the United States. Chair: Bożena Nowicka McLees. Discussants:  Members of Chicago/Great Lakes Polish-American social and cultural organizations. 

5:30 PM.  RECEPTION FOR PARTICIPANTS 

8:00 PM.  CONCERT 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

MORNING EVENTS:

A) PAHA BOARD MEETING: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM and Working Lunch to 1:30 PM

B) BUS TOUR FOR REGISTERED GUESTS: 9:30 AM -13:00 PM  

Tour of North Side of Chicago with Victoria Granacki 

AFTERNOON BUS TOUR (for PAHA Board members only): 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Bus Tour of South Side of Chicago with Dominik Pacyga

ORGANIZERS

Conference organizers include the following institutions in Poland and the U.S.: 

• Polish American Historical Association, 
• Polish Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago; 
• Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci; 
• Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego: 
• Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych, 
• Jagiellońskie Centrum Studiów Migracyjnych; and 
• Komitet Badań nad Migracjami Polskiej Akademii Nauk 

FUNDED IN PART by the Senate of the Republic of Poland.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 

• Prof. Anna Mazurkiewicz – President on behalf of PAHA
• Prof. Zygmunt Kolenda – President on behalf of PAU 
• Bozena Nowicka McLees – Loyola University 
• Prof. Dominic Pacyga – PAHA/ Columbia College Chicago 
• Prof. Dorota Praszałowicz – PAN/PAHA 
• Prof. James Pula – PAHA/PurdueUniversity 
• Prof. Adam Walaszek – Jagiellonian University/PAHA 

Anna Jaroszynska Kirchmann about Polish American Studies 75/1

In the year when Polish American Historical Association celebrates 75 years of its work, it is highly satisfying to see how our journal Polish American Studies reflects the development of our scholarly field. The Spring 2018 issue of PAS (Vol. 75, no. 1) features on the cover a photograph taken during the very first meeting of what became PAHA in New York in 1943. Although to the contemporary observer it is now striking that the group does not include any women, the first issue of PAS did feature an article by Rev. Sister M. Ligouri, Ph.D., from St. Mary's High School in Worcester, Mass. If you are interested in the history of those early years of PAHA and PAS, pick up the recently published book, edited by James S. Pula, which discusses various directions and areas of development of our organization over the last 75 years.

The Spring 2018 issue of PAS brings together three articles, posing questions about Polish American experience seen in three different and little known contexts. James S. Pula examines antislavery arguments promoted by the early immigrants from the Polish lands to America. Thomas Hollowak describes various aspects of the unique experience of Polish immigrants who found employment in oyster dredging in the Chesapeake Bay. Kathleen Urbanic and Thomas Duszak present a history of Polish Baptists in the United States, as seen through the activities of the parishes in Rochester, NY, and Wilmington, DE.

The issue features also books by Anna Rudek-Smiechowska, Sylvie Aprive, Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Joshua Blank, Tara Zahra, Czeslaw Karkowski, and Marek Liszka.

Subscription to PAS comes as part of the membership in PAHA. To join, visit the website of University of Illinois Press, the publisher of our journal.

To find out more about the journal, about its editorial board, and submissions, visit PAS page on PAHA Website: http://polishamericanstudies.org/text/13/polish-american-studies.html. The website also features tables of contents of earlier issues of PAS. These articles are available as PDF downloads from JSTOR.