PROGRAM OF THE 74th ANNUAL MEETING, DENVER, COLORADO
PAHA Board Meeting
Thursday, January 5, 2017: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 204
Immigrant and Ethnic Identity
Friday, January 6, 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Papers:
Creating Identity: Discussion around Kashubian and Polish Identity in Canada and Poland
Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf, University of Gdańsk
Pilgrimages to Poland: The Rearticulation of Ethnoreligious Identity in the South Texas Polish Community
Sarah Moxy Moczygemba, University of Florida
The "Other" Patriot: The Gothic Nature of the Polish Catholic Immigrant Other in the Mid-19th-Century United States
Jill Noel Walker Gonzalez, La Sierra University
Comment: The Audience
Constructing Ethnicity in Polish American Literature
Friday, January 6, 2017: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Bozena Nowicka McLees, Loyola University Chicago
Papers:
Our Little Polish Cousin and the Stara Imigracja
Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
"What Are Little (Polish) Girls Made Of?" Performing Gender in World War II Novels for Young Adults By Immigrant and Ethnic Writers
Grażyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Anthony Bukoski: Writing from an Outpost of Polishness
John Merchant, Loyola University Chicago
Comment: The Audience
Narrating Migration: Subjectivities and Communities in Poland and the United States
Friday, January 6, 2017: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk
Papers:
Narrating a New "American": Polish Holocaust Survivors in the United States in the 1950s
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State University
The People of Hamtramck: What Does It Mean to be Polish American in a Small Midwestern Town?
Anna Muller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
What Polish Peasants Said about Capitalism: Narrating Urban Subjectivity in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century America
Kathleen Wroblewski, University of Michigan
Comment: The Audience
Prominent Poles in the Americas
Friday, January 6, 2017: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Pien Versteegh, Avans University of Applied Sciences
Papers:
Judge Rozanski: Prosecuting Human Rights Crimes in Argentina
Sylvia G. Dapía, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Thomas Lewinski: America’s Forgotten Architect
James Pula, Purdue University Northwest-North Central
The Pelé of Chicago: Janusz Kowalik and the Beginnings of Professional Soccer in the United States
Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Following Paderewski: An Album of Autographs and Clippings from Brighton, England, 1890–1914
Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press
Comment: The Audience
Between Europe and North America: (Im)migration and Social Justice
Saturday, January 7, 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Grażyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Papers:
Polish Migrants on the Move: Miners in the Ruhr Area, 1920–30
Pien Versteegh, Avans University of Applied Sciences
Multigenerational Migration Chains of Families from Babica: An Attempt at Typology
Joanna Kulpińska, Jagiellonia University in Kraków
Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities in the USA and Poland: From History to Modern Trends
Andrey Sergeevich Tikhonov, Kirkland Scholarship Program, University of Wrocław
Comment: The Audience
East Central Europe—What’s in the Name? The View from Exile
Saturday, January 7, 2017: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Papers:
Regional Self-Representation of Polish Political Exiles in the US during the Cold War
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk
Imagining a Separate Slovakia: Anti-Communist Slovak Exiles' Hopes and Dreams
Ellen L. Paul, Fort Lewis College
Milan Kundera's Concept of Central Europe and the Ensuing Discussion Among Czechoslovak Exiles and Dissidents
Francis D. Raska, Charles University
“Not Real Germans at All”: The East-Central "Othering" of GDR-Refugees during the Revolution of 1989
Bethany E. Hicks, Ouachita Baptist University
Comment: The Audience
Author Meets Critic Session for The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press by Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
Saturday, January 7, 2017: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
Comment: David A. Gerber, State University of New York at Buffalo; John Bekken, Albright College; Robert M. Zecker, St. Francis Xavier University; Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Roundtable Discussion: Progressive: Polish-Americans for Social Progress—Jamestown through the 21st Century
Saturday, January 7, 2017: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center, Room 304
Chair: Anna Muller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Comment: The Audience
CONFERENCE PROGRAM CHAIR: GRAŻYNA KOZACZKA