PAHA’s 76th annual meeting was be held in Chicago as part of the 133rd yearly meeting of the American Historical Association from January 3–6, 2019.
The theme for the AHA conference is “Loyalties.” As explained in the general CFP “… loyalties function on multiple levels. Individually, or in groups, humans commit themselves to communities, loved ones, principles, a leader, a nation, a religion, an ideology, or an identity.”
PAHA Chair of the Program Committee: Anna Muller, Ph.D.; anmuller@umich.edu, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Download PAHA's 76th Annual Meeting Program in PDF Format.
Chicago and Lake Michigan, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
76th Annual Meeting of Polish American Historical Association
All Sessions will be held in the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60605. PAHA's meeting is organized in association with the 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.
To get to the hotel from the O'Hare Airport take the Blue Line train to Jackson stop and walk 0.6 miles southeast. To get to the hotel from Midway Airport take the Orange Line train to the Roosevelt stop and walk 0.5 miles north to 720 S. Michigan.
Session 1: Building the Polish Diaspora: Polish Communities Abroad
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Pien Versteegh, Avans University of Applied Sciences
Papers:
PAHA Board Meeting in Chicago, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
PAHA Board Meeting Part 1
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4L
Presider: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk
Lake Michigan, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
Session 2: Loyalty to a Patriotic Ideal? And If So, Which? Memory Politics and Cultural Politics in Post-World War II Poland
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Michal Janusz Wilczewski, University of Illinois at Chicago
Papers:
Sculpture by Magdalena Abakanowicz in Chicago, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
Session 3: Lifelong Affection: Americans in East Central Europe from World War I to the End of the Cold War
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Anna Muller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Papers:
Lake Michigan, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
Session 4: Conflicted Loyalties and/or Pragmatism
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Papers:
Chicago and Lake Michigan, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
Session 5: Polish Soldiers' Loyalty in Transnational Context
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: James Pula, Purdue University Northwest
Papers:
South Chicago, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
Session 6: Reconstructions, Processes, and (Invented) Traditions
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University
Papers:
St. Stanislaw Kostka Church with Girls in Gorale Costume
Session 7: Different Faces of Polishness
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk
Papers:
A South Chicago street, Photo by Maja Trochimczyk
Session 8: American Ethnics in the Post-World War II Decades
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: David A. Gerber, State University of New York at Buffalo
Papers:
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in South Chicago
Session 9: War, Displacement, and Polish Communities
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Chair: Angela Pienkos, Polish Center of Wisconsin
Papers:
Defining Poland through Music: American Musical Celebrations of the Centennial of Poland’s Regained Independence - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press, Los Angeles
The Foundations of the Polish Diaspora in Exile after World War II: Cultural Identity and Loyalty of the Polish Emigres in Resettlement - Agata Błaszczyk, Polish University Abroad
Annual PAHA Awards Banquet
Saturday, January 5, 2019, at 7 p.m.
Chopin Theater, 1543 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60642
Tickets are $45 per person; the awardees attend for free.
To reserve your seat for the Awards Banquet, register for the conference
and pay the Awards Banquet Fee, please visit our website:
https://polishamericanstudies.org/text/19/registration.html
A Chicago street view, photo by Maja Trochimczyk
PAHA Board Meeting Part 2
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Hilton Chicago, Conference Room 4K
Presider: Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk