PROGRAM OF THE 72ND ANNUAL MEETING IN NEW YORK
New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019
Program of Events:
PAHA Annual Board Meeting
Friday, January 2, 2015: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
New York Hilton, Hilton Board Room
Presider: Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Awards Banquet
Friday, January 2, 2014, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York
233 Madison Avenue (Jan Karski Corner), New York, NY 10016.
Polish American Literature
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New York Hilton, Lincoln Suite
Chair: Pien Versteegh, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
Papers:
Brigid Pasulka’s A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True and the Work of Ethnic Fiction
Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College at Chicago (cancelled)
The Case against My Brother: The Intersection of History, Literature, and Ethnicity
Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Patterns of Ethnicity in Polish American, Polish Canadian, and Anglo-Polish Fiction after 1989
Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Comment: The Audience
The Long Nineteenth Century: Themes in History
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Papers:
"Domestic Education" and "Work at the Foundations": Class, Gender, and Progressive Reformism in the United States and Poland
Marta Cieslak, University at Buffalo (State University of New York) (Cancelled)
Future War of John Bloch versus Norman Angell’s Great Illusion
Andrzej Pieczewski, University of Lodz
To Save the Union; or, For the Just and Right Cause? Why Poles Fought in the Civil War, 1861–65
Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdansk and University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
The Battle of Maciejowice and Tadeusz Kosciuszko’s Myth
Anna Cortes, Polish Academy of Science
Comment: The Audience
Solidarity: At Home and Abroad
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, Lincoln Suite
Chair: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
Papers:
To Be a Woman in the Male-Dominated World of the Lenin Shipyard Workers: Anna Walentynowicz’s Quest in Life
Anna Muller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Andrzej Wajda’s Solidarity Trilogy
Sheila Skaff, Columbia University
The Return Migration of Solidarity Refugees
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
Comment: The Audience
Figures in Polish and Polish American History
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: John Radzilowski, University of Alaska, Southeast
Papers:
Father Theodore Suk: A Man of Faith
Barbara Pulaski, Mount Ida College
Alfred Jurzykowski and his Foundation: A Brief Outline
Czeslaw Karkowski, Hunter College and Mercy College
Zbyszko, "The Mighty Pole": Stanley Zbyszko, Polish Americans, and Sport in the Early Twentieth Century
Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jan Brożek's Contribution to Copernican Studies Originating from His Queries in Warmia in 1618
Jan Chroboczek, Institute de Microélectronique, Électromagnétisme et Photonique
Comment: The Audience
World War II: Literature, Memoir, and Herbert Hoover’s Humanitarianism
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
New York Hilton, Lincoln Suite
Chair: Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Papers:
Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Encountering the Holocaust: The Cases of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska
Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Integrating History, Memory, and Intimate Ethnography: A Polish Biography-Memoir of World War II, Immigration, and a Life Remade
Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Michigan State University
Herbert Hoover, Poles, and Poland: An Inquiry into a Dynamic Relationship
Frederick J. Augustyn, Library of Congress
Comment: The Audience
Themes in the History of Polish Music
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
New York Hilton, Concourse E
Chair: Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Papers:
The Impact of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's American Years on Spiewy Historyczne
Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press
A Musical Survey of the Song Output of Karol Szymanowski
Julianna Wrycza-Sabol, Syracuse University (cancelled)
Comment: The Audience
Polish American History from the Seventeenth Century through the Mid-Twentieth Century
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
New York Hilton, Harlem Suite
Chair: Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Papers:
New Amsterdam or New Gdańsk? Polish Settlers in New Amsterdam, 1624–64
Pien Versteegh, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
James Pula, Purdue University North Central
KNAPP: The National Committee of Americans of Polish Descent
Charles Chotkowski, Piast Institute
The Eviction of the Kashube Fishermen of Jones Island Milwaukee: Then and Now
Ann Gurnack, University of Wisconsin–Parkside
A New Polonia? The Recreation of Polish American Identity, 1918–45
John Radzilowski, University of Alaska, Southeast
Comment: The Audience
The Aftermath of World War II
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
New York Hilton, Concourse F
Chair: Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Papers:
Citizenship Practices during the Cold War: A Polish American Model?
Florence Vychytil-Baudoux, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Paralyzing the Polonia from Within: Communist Secret Police Infiltration of the Polish American Community
Pawel Styrna, Institute of World Politics
Cold War Émigrés: Looking for Patterns in Exile Political Activism
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
Polish Refugees from Siberia in the United States, 1945–2014
Iwona Korga, Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
Defending the Remnants: American Jews Respond to Poland’s 1968 Anti-Zionist Campaign
Rachel Rothstein, University of Florida
Comment: The Audience