PAHA’s 77th annual meeting was held in New York as part of the 134th meeting of the American Historical Association on January 3–5, 2020 (Friday to Sunday).
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Symposium2620.html
PAHA Chair of the Program Committee: Anna Muller, Ph.D.; anmuller@umich.edu, University of Michigan-Dearborn
77th Annual Meeting of Polish American Historical Association
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Harlem Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 1: BOOK PANEL: AMERICAN WARSAW: THE RISE, FALL, AND REBIRTH OF POLISH CHICAGO BY DOMINIC A. PACYGA
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Panel:
⨀ Ewa Barczyk, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;
⨀ David A. Gerber, State University of New York at Buffalo;
⨀ James Pula, Purdue University Northwest
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Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-6:30 .
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
PAHA BOARD MEETING. Chair: Anna Müller, President
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 2: SEARCHING FOR A VOICE, SEARCHING FOR A PLACE
Chair: Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Papers:
⨀ The Polish Rifle: Connie Wisniewski and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;
⨀ Helena Modjeska’s Bilingual Morality Tale of 1896 - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press;
⨀ "There Are No Capitalists among Our Kind”: State, Nation, and Class in Dymytry Vyslotsky’s Interwar Lemkovyna - Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College;
⨀ Stanisław Gutowski: America’s Secret Weapon in World War I - James Pula, Purdue University Northwest
Comment: Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 3: GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
Chair: Piotr Puchalski, Assistant Professor, Pedagogical University, Kraków
Papers:
⨀ The Polish Democratic Society and the Enthusiasts: Conflict and Cooperation in 1840s Poznań - Natalie Cornett, Brandeis University;
⨀ Education in Exile: The Committee for the Education of Poles in Great Britain, 1947–54: The Importance of Education as the Route to Civic Integration - Agata Błaszczyk, Polish University Abroad (PUNO);
⨀ An Immigrant Voice in Canada: Czas Polish Press Ltd - Magda Blackmore, University of Manitoba;
⨀ Zygmunt Haupt's Broadcasting Work at "Voice of America," 1951–60 - Barbara Krupa, Stanford University. Comment: Piotr Puchalski, Pedagogical University, Kraków
Commet: Assistant Professor, Pedagogical University, Kraków
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 4: NEW AND OLD HOME: MOBILITY AND IDENTITY
Chair: Wiktor Marzec, R. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, UW
Papers:
⨀ Looking at Both Sides of the Pond: Kashubian Fishermen Families from the Hel Peninsula, Poland and Jones Island, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Anne Gurnack, University of Wisconsin–Parkside;
⨀ Mobility Patterns of Polish Migrants in the US, 1900–40: A Comparison between Pennsylvania and Illinois - Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University;
⨀ Going Home? Poles’ Return Migrations from Chicago to Poland - Hubert Izienicki, Purdue University Northwest;
⨀ Explaining Serfdom: Post-1945 Historians on Eastern Europe - Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw
⨀ Comment: Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 5: POWER AND DISEMPOWERMENT IN THE LIVES OF POLISH AMERICAN WOMEN
Chair: Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw
Papers:
⨀ The Dangerous Intersection of Ethnicity and Sexuality in Migrant Fiction - Grażyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College;
⨀ Between Assimilation and Resistance: The Transatlantic Modernity of Polish Rural Women - Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock;
⨀ Mining “The Twenty” via Memory Work: Reinterpreting Story, Rewriting Identity - Kristina Kwacz, Empire State College, State University of New York.
⨀ Comment: Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 6: Roundtable - IS THERE A HISTORY OF POLAND BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST?
Chair: John Bukowczyk, Wayne State University
Panel:
⨀ Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies ;
⨀ Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn;
⨀ Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw;
⨀ Janine P. Holc, Loyola University Maryland
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 7: HAMTRAMCK
Chair: Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Papers:
⨀ Interconnections and Parallels between Muslims and Polish Catholics in Hamtramck - Alisa Perkins, Western Michigan University;
⨀ Moving Out, Moving Back, Moving Over: 21st-Century Polonia in Hamtramck - Karen Majewski, University of Michigan;
⨀ Hamtramck, Poletown, and Bangladesh Avenue: Exploring the Intersection of Communal Autonomies in the Formation of Diaspora Identities - Sunanda Summadar, Wayne County Community College
Comment: Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 8: POLISH RESPONSES TO GLOBAL MODERNITY
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Papers:
⨀ Poland’s Colonial Aspirations as a Diplomatic Instrument, 1932–39 - Piotr Puchalski, Pedagogical University, Kraków;
⨀ From Revolution to Nation: Popular Unrest in Russian Poland, 1907–18 - Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw;
⨀ Reconsidering the Christian View of the Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust - Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin–Madison;
⨀ A Patriot, a Soldier, a Confederate: The Life of Gaspard Tochman, 1799–1880 - Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdańsk
Comment: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 9: (POPULAR) CULTURE AS A POWERHOUSE OF IDENTITY BUILDING
Chair: Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College
Papers:
⨀ Martha, Anna, and Pierogi: Mainstreaming Polish Identity through Polish Food - Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University; With Illustrations by Zygmunt Iwanowski:
⨀ Recovering a Polish American Artist of America’s Golden Age of Illustration - Jill Noel Walker Gonzalez, La Sierra University;
⨀ Polish Emigrant Composer Karol Rathaus and His Work in Europe and in the USA - Mateusz Strzelecki, Academy of Music in Łódź
Comment: Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 10: POLAND/POLONIA: GREENPOINT AND BEYOND. Chair: Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University
Papers:
⨀ Relational and Material Aspects of Transnational Home Making by Migrants from Poland to the US: A Cross-Generational Context - Karolina Nikielska-Sekula, University of South-Eastern Norway;
⨀ Seeing Greenpoint Change - Judith DeSena, St. John’s University;
⨀ Teaching How Krakow Changed, Visually - Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Comment: Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
SESSION 11: IN THE SHADOW OF YALTA: POLISH ÉMIGRÉS AND THE SHAPING OF THE “INTELLECTUAL COLD WAR,” 1945–89
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Papers:
⨀ Polish Cold War Émigrés as a Part of Institutionalized American Sovietology: The State of Research - Sławomir Łukasiewicz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and IPN;
⨀ Émigré “Scholarly Offensive”: Polish Historians, Ukrainian Studies, and the Making of the “Intellectual Cold War” - Oleksandr Avramchuk, University of Warsaw;
⨀ My Stormy Life Has Shaped It for Me: Jan Sawka—His Life and Work as a Record of Perturbations of History - Anna Rudek-Śmiechowska, Polish Institute of World Art Studies.
Comment: Jonathan W. Daly, U. of Illinois at Chicago