2009 PAHA conference
Friday, January 2, 2009: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Papers:
Talpra Magyar, Rise up Magyars: Hungarian Expatriates' in the United States and Their Struggle against the Communists Following World War II
Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Southeastern Louisiana University
Latvian Émigrés, the Cold War, and Comparitive Analysis of the Experience of Political Refugees
Ieva Zake, Rowan University
Traitors and Patriots: American Ethnic Responses to Communism
John Radzilowski, University of Alaska Southeast
Patriots and Partisans: Armenian-Americans and Sovet Armenia in the Early Cold War Years
Benjamin F. Alexander, Towson University
Friday, January 2, 2009: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: John Guzlowski, Eastern Illinois University
Co-Chair: Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University
Speaker(s):
Stephen Lewandowski
Sharon Mesmer, Brooklyn, New York
Thad Rutkowski, Writer's Voice of the West of the West Side YMCA
John Popielski, Middleton, Connecticut
John Surowiecki, Hartford, Connecticut
Bill Zavatsky, New York City
Friday, January 2, 2009: 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Papers:
Mother-Daughter Relations in Contemporary Polish American Literature
Grazyna J. Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Doing Ethnicity and Doing Gender: Polishness in Third-Generation Women
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Women Building Communities on the Lower East Side, 1880–1920
Anne M. Gurnack, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Comment: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College Chicago
Saturday, January 3, 2009: 11:30 AM-2:30 PM
Hilton New York, Concourse C
Saturday, January 3, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: Anne M. Gurnack, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Papers:
Tales from Polish Lower East Side Saloons in New York City
Anne M. Gurnack, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
How World War II Affected the Polish East Side 1939–45
Iwona Drag Korga, Pilsudski Institute
Doing Histories of New York City's Early Polonia: Stories, Sources, and Suggestions
Joseph Wieczerzak, City of New York
Comment: James Pula, Purdue University North Central
Saturday, January 3, 2009: 6:00 PM
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York 233 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: TBD
Papers:
Looking for Better Opportunities or a Way of Life? Polish Migrants in Nanticoke
Pien Versteegh, Tilburg University
Alternative Explanations for Opposition to Civil Rights in Milwaukee, 1963–64
Stephen Leahy, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley
Polish Vincentian Fathers of the New England Province
Charles R. Kaczynski, Catholic University of America
Enemies into Allies: Ex-Wehrmacht Soldiers and the Politics of Identity
within the Polish Second Corps, 1944-1946
Brian McCook, Leeds Metropolitan University
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: James Pula, Purdue University, North Central
Papers:
Ira Hirschmann and the Situation of Polish Displaced Persons
Charles Chotkowski, Holocaust Documentation Committee Polish American Congress
Frank Kowalski: Connecticut Congressman at Large, Anti-war Army Veteran
Frederick J. Augustyn, Library of Congress
Waclaw Kruszka: A Centennial Retrospective on Polonia's First Historian
James Pula, Purdue University, North Central
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton New York, Concourse H
Chair: John Radzilowski, University of Alaska Southeast
Papers:
Witold Gombrowicz: A Polish Writer Viewed through an Argentine Prism
Silvia G. Dapia, Purdue University, North Central
Preserving Polish Peasants: Reexamining U.S. Foreign Policy toward Poland in the Cold War
Robert Mark M. Spaulding, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Teaching a Course in Polish Cultural History at the Graduate Level
Peter Obst, LaSalle University