Please note that this program reflects changes resulting from last-minute cancellations and is the most up to date version as of December 20, 2023. Consequently, this program may differ from the original program published on the official website of the conference maintained by the American Historical Association.
The Polish American Historical Association’s 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco (CA) January 4–7, 2024
In affiliation with the 137th yearly meeting of the American Historical Association
All sessions take place in the Hilton Union Square, Union Square 3&4 (Fourth, Hilton), 333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 unless listed otherwise
Transnational Journeys, Intimate Stories:
Celebrating Anna Muller’s An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996 (Ohio University Press, 2023; Polish and Polish American Studies Series)
Panelists:
Magdalena Blackmore (University of Manitoba)
John Bukowczyk, Polish and Polish American Studies Series Editor (Wayne State University)
Anna Muller, (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Marta Cieslak (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
PAHA Board of Directors meeting: 3:30 – 5:30
Union Square 8 (Fourth, Hilton)
Chair: Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk)
Benjamin J. Bax (Swansea University/University of Central Oklahoma), Borderlands, Assimilation, and a Red River Rivalry: The Legacy of Polonia in Harrah, Oklahoma
Jan M. Lorys (Polish Museum of America), Polish Falcons of America and the Challenges of their Archival Holdings
Mark Dillon (Independent Scholar), Generation Vexed: The Rise and Fall of Two Polish American Groups
Chair: Izabella Kimak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)
Joshua C. Blank (St. Francis Xavier High School, Ottawa), From Wawel to Wilowski in Wilno: The Enduring Saga of Poland’s Treasures in Canada
Peter J. Obst (Researcher, Poles in America Foundation), Return of the St. Luke Brotherhood Paintings to Poland
Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), From Artistic Rebel in People’s Poland to Artistic Partner of the Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip of Jan Sawka
Marta Kopiniak (University of Wrocław), A Comparative Perspective on Public Participation in Polish and Polish American Museums in the 20th and 21st Century
Chair: Pien Versteegh (Independent Scholar)
Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska (University of Warsaw): Americanizing Immigrant Household: Polonia Women and Household Appliances in Early 20th Century and Interwar Chicago
Marta Cieslak (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), “One of the Tragedies of Motherhood”: Infanticide in the Polish/Polish American Community in the United States in the Early 20th Century
Izabella Kimak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University), The Women of Polish (Literary) Chicago: Reading Elizabeth Kern’s “Wanting to Be Jackie Kennedy”
Chair and Commentator: John J. Bukowczyk
Andrzej E. Mańkowski (Independent Scholar/Consul General of the Republic of Poland, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Fernie and Revelstoke: 2 Polish Centers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Kathleen E. Callum (Independent Scholar/ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service) and Robert A. Sloma (Independent Scholar/ Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), Polish American Place Names in the North American West: Mapping Ideology and Management of Diverse, Significant Polonia Sites
Wojciech Owczarzak (Independent Scholar/Fundacja Centrum Inicjatyw Naturalnych/The Center for Natural Initiatives Foundation), Traditional Natural Building Techniques Used in Poland
Gabrielle R. Harlan (Independent Scholar/ National Park Service), “It Takes a Village”: The Communitarian Ethos in the Architecture of Polish American Konstany Stys
Happy Hour hosted by the Polish Arts and Culture Foundation, MIXED Lounge – Back Bar, 140 Ellis Street, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Open to all conference participants. [Cancelled]
1. Evolutions of Migrant and Ethnic Identities (8.30 -10.00 am)
Chair: Marta Cieslak (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Aleksandra Gorka (San Jose State University), The Literary Footprint of Early Polish Immigration in the San Francisco Bay Area: Polish Pioneers in California in the 19th Century
Pien Versteegh (Independent Scholar), Intergenerational Mobility Patterns of Polish Women in the United States 1890-1940
Magdalena Blackmore (University of Manitoba), Creating Identities: A Case Study of Second Generation Polish Immigrants in Manitoba after World War II
Benjamin J. Bax (Swansea University/University of Central Oklahoma), Defiant Poles and the Displaced Persons Act
Chair: Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Mark Dillon (Independent Scholar), Meet the Polereczkys: How a Refugee Family’s Identity Changed in 18th-Century Poland, and Was Reborn in France and the USA
Iwona Flis (University of Gdańsk), Ewa Gierat and Her Ways to Integrate Polish Intellectuals in Post-War America
Jan S. Plachta (Independent Scholar), Ralph Modjeski: The Mastermind of the San Francisco Bay Bridge
Barbara Krupa (Stanford University), Zygmunt Haupt’s Journalism at Voice of America in 1951–1960
Chair: Iwona Flis (University of Gdańsk)
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdansk), William J. Tonesk: The Inconspicuous Cold Warrior
Vivian Reed (Independent Scholar), The Faithful Cow Goes to Warsaw
Francis Raška (Charles University, Prague), Polish and Czechoslovak Dissidents: An Example of Transnational Collaboration in the Late Cold War Period
Andrzej Pieczewski (University of Lodz), History as a Key to Understanding Mentalities: The Case of Polish Minority in Belarus
PAHA Annual Awards Banquet and Dinner,
6:30 - 9:00 PM at McCormick & Kuleto's, 900 North Point St, San Francisco, CA 94109.