PROGRAM OF THE 73RD ANNUAL MEETING, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
PAHA Board Meeting
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Executive Boardroom
Polish Immigrant Adaptation and Cultural Transition
Friday, January 8, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Chair: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
Papers:
Polish Miners in the Ruhr Area, 1920–30
Pien Versteegh, Avans University of Applied Sciences
The Eviction of the Kashube Fisherman of Jones Island, Milwaukee
Ann Gurnack, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Kashubian Pusto Noc in America: Comparative Perspective of Death Rites, Poland and Canada
Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf, University of Gdańsk
Comment: The Audience
Polish Americans: Family, Home, Career
Friday, January 8, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Chair: Pien Versteegh, Avans University of Applied Sciences
Papers:
Biatek Family: A Case Study in Polish Immigration History
Barbara Pulaski, Mount Ida College
Francis Wolenski, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Defining Home: The Development of Polish-American Identity in Toledo, Ohio, 1905–25
Rachel Pawlowicz, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Three Second-Generation Polish American Women of Success and Their Stories
Joanna Wojdon, University of Wrocław
Comment: The Audience
Foreigners' View on the American Civil War
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Chair: Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College Chicago
Papers:
Polish Participation in the Anti-slavery Crusade
James Pula, Purdue University North Central
Writing German Lives during the American Civil War: The Letters of German Immigrant Soldiers
Daniel Kotzin, Medaille College
The Polish View on American Conflict: The Civil War from the Perspective of Count Adam De Gurowski
Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdańsk
Comment: The Audience
Émigré Political Activism during the Cold War
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 210
Chair: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk
Papers:
Central European Federalists in the United States during the Cold War Period
Sławomir Lukasiewicz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Between Neighbors, Between Immigrants: Poles and Ukrainians in the United States during the Cold War, A Few Reflections
Anna Fiń, Pedagogical University of Kraków
Serving the United States and Afghanistan: The Role of the Afghan Americans in the Cold War, 1978–92
John K. Baden, Case Western Reserve University
Comment: The Audience
Slicing the Bread, Children's Survival Manual in 25 Poems
Friday, January 8, 2016: 5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Papers:
Poetry Reading
Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press
Polish Immigrant and Polish American Ethnic Women
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Chair: Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Michigan State University
Papers:
Warsaw, East London, and Detroit: Ravensbrück Camp Inmates Searching for a Home
Anna Muller, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Women, Immigration, and Ethnicity: A Review of Sociological Studies
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
Forbidden Desires: Women and Transgressive Sexuality in Polish American Fiction
Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Comment: The Audience
Honoring Victor Greene: Immigration and Ethnic History since the 1960s
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Co-Sponsor(s): Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Comment: James R. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ronald H. Bayor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College Chicago; James Pula, Purdue University North Central; Dorothee Schneider, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Reception of Polish Culture in the United States
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Room 209
Chair: Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Papers:
The “Other” Patriot: The Gothic Nature of the Polish Catholic Immigrant Other in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States
Jill Noel Walker Gonzalez, La Sierra University
Digested: Tadeusz Rozewicz and the Polish Americans
Maja Dziedzic, University of Gdańsk
Poland, Polish-Americans, and Georgia
John P. Dunn, Valdosta State University
Michał Mydlowski, Warsaw University
Teaching Resources in the Maintenance and Development of Polish Language and Culture in the United States
Monika Woloszyn-Domagala, University of Zielona Góra
Comment: The Audience
CONFERENCE PROGRAM CHAIR: ANNA MAZURKIEWICZ