Program of PAHA's 77th Annual Meeting in New York, January 3-6, 2020

Painting by Julian Stanczak

PAHA’s 77th annual meeting will be held in New York as part of the 134th meeting of the American Historical Association on January 3–5, 2020 (Friday to Sunday).

https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Symposium2620.html

PAHA Chair of the Program Committee: Anna Muller, Ph.D.; anmuller@umich.edu, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Painting by Julian Stanczak

2020 Annual Meeting Program 
77th Annual Meeting of Polish American Historical Association

Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Harlem Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 1: BOOK PANEL: AMERICAN WARSAW: THE RISE, FALL, AND REBIRTH OF POLISH CHICAGO BY DOMINIC A. PACYGA
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Panel:
⨀ Ewa Barczyk, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;
⨀ David A. Gerber, State University of New York at Buffalo;
⨀ James Pula, Purdue University Northwest

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Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-6:30 .
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
PAHA BOARD MEETING. Chair: Anna Müller, President
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 2: SEARCHING FOR A VOICE, SEARCHING FOR A PLACE
Chair: Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Papers:
⨀ The Polish Rifle: Connie Wisniewski and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;

⨀ Helena Modjeska’s Bilingual Morality Tale of 1896 - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press;

⨀ "There Are No Capitalists among Our Kind”: State, Nation, and Class in Dymytry Vyslotsky’s Interwar Lemkovyna - Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College;

⨀ Stanisław Gutowski: America’s Secret Weapon in World War I - James Pula, Purdue University Northwest

Comment: Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 3: GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
Chair: Piotr Puchalski, Assistant Professor, Pedagogical University, Kraków

Papers:

⨀ The Polish Democratic Society and the Enthusiasts: Conflict and Cooperation in 1840s Poznań - Natalie Cornett, Brandeis University;

⨀ Education in Exile: The Committee for the Education of Poles in Great Britain, 1947–54: The Importance of Education as the Route to Civic Integration - Agata Błaszczyk, Polish University Abroad (PUNO);

⨀ An Immigrant Voice in Canada: Czas Polish Press Ltd - Magda Blackmore, University of Manitoba;

⨀ Zygmunt Haupta's Broadcasting Work at "Voice of America," 1951–60 - Barbara Krupa, Stanford University. Comment: Piotr Puchalski, Pedagogical University, Kraków

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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 4: NEW AND OLD HOME: MOBILITY AND IDENTITY
Chair: Wiktor Marzec, R. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, UW

Papers:

⨀ Looking at Both Sides of the Pond: Kashubian Fishermen Families from the Hel Peninsula, Poland and Jones Island, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Anne Gurnack, University of Wisconsin–Parkside;

⨀ Mobility Patterns of Polish Migrants in the US, 1900–40: A Comparison between Pennsylvania and Illinois - Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University;

⨀ Going Home? Poles’ Return Migrations from Chicago to Poland - Hubert Izienicki, Purdue University Northwest;

⨀ Explaining Serfdom: Post-1945 Historians on Eastern Europe - Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw

⨀ Comment: Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw

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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 5: POWER AND DISEMPOWERMENT IN THE LIVES OF POLISH AMERICAN WOMEN
Chair: Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw

Papers:

⨀ The Dangerous Intersection of Ethnicity and Sexuality in Migrant Fiction - Grażyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College;

⨀ Between Assimilation and Resistance: The Transatlantic Modernity of Polish Rural Women - Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock;

⨀ Mining “The Twenty” via Memory Work: Reinterpreting Story, Rewriting Identity - Kristina Kwacz, Empire State College, State University of New York.

⨀ Comment: Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 6: IS THERE A HISTORY OF POLAND BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST?
Chair: John Bukowczyk, Wayne State University

Panel:

⨀ Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies ;
⨀ Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn;
⨀ Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw;
⨀ Janine P. Holc, Loyola University Maryland
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 7: HAMTRAMCK
Chair: Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn

Papers:

⨀ Interconnections and Parallels between Muslims and Polish Catholics in Hamtramck - Alisa Perkins, Western Michigan University;

⨀ Moving Out, Moving Back, Moving Over: 21st-Century Polonia in Hamtramck - Karen Majewski, University of Michigan;

⨀ Hamtramck, Poletown, and Bangladesh Avenue: Exploring the Intersection of Communal Autonomies in the Formation of Diaspora Identities - Sunanda Summadar, Wayne County Community College

Comment: Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn

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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 8: POLISH RESPONSES TO GLOBAL MODERNITY
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Papers:

⨀ Poland’s Colonial Aspirations as a Diplomatic Instrument, 1932–39 - Piotr Puchalski, Pedagogical University, Kraków;

⨀ From Revolution to Nation: Popular Unrest in Russian Poland, 1907–18 - Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw;

⨀ Reconsidering the Christian View of the Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust - Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin–Madison;

⨀ A Patriot, a Soldier, a Confederate: The Life of Gaspard Tochman, 1799–1880 - Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdańsk

Comment: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 9: (POPULAR) CULTURE AS A POWERHOUSE OF IDENTITY BUILDING
Chair: Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College

Papers:

⨀ Martha, Anna, and Pierogi: Mainstreaming Polish Identity through Polish Food - Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University; With Illustrations by Zygmunt Iwanowski:

⨀ Recovering a Polish American Artist of America’s Golden Age of Illustration - Jill Noel Walker Gonzalez, La Sierra University;

⨀ Polish Emigrant Composer Karol Rathaus and His Work in Europe and in the USA - Mateusz Strzelecki, Academy of Music in Łódź

Comment: Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College

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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 10: POLAND/POLONIA: GREENPOINT AND BEYOND. Chair: Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University

Papers:

⨀ Relational and Material Aspects of Transnational Home Making by Migrants from Poland to the US: A Cross-Generational Context - Karolina Nikielska-Sekula, University of South-Eastern Norway;

⨀ Seeing Greenpoint Change - Judith DeSena, St. John’s University;

⨀ Teaching How Krakow Changed, Visually - Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Comment: Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University

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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

SESSION 11: IN THE SHADOW OF YALTA: POLISH ÉMIGRÉS AND THE SHAPING OF THE “INTELLECTUAL COLD WAR,” 1945–89
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University

Papers:

⨀ Polish Cold War Émigrés as a Part of Institutionalized American Sovietology: The State of Research - Sławomir Łukasiewicz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and IPN;

⨀ Émigré “Scholarly Offensive”: Polish Historians, Ukrainian Studies, and the Making of the “Intellectual Cold War” - Oleksandr Avramchuk, University of Warsaw;

⨀ My Stormy Life Has Shaped It for Me: Jan Sawka—His Life and Work as a Record of Perturbations of History - Anna Rudek-Śmiechowska, Polish Institute of World Art Studies.

Comment: Jonathan W. Daly, U. of Illinois at Chicago

Painting by Julian Stanczak