POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 2022 Annual Meeting (Revised Jan. 2022)
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Thursday, January 6 3:30-6:30
PAHA Board Meeting
Grand Chenier (Sheraton New Orleans, 5th Floor)
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Friday, January 7 10:30—12:00
Session #3: THE VARIETY OF POLISH DIASPORIC ISSUES
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Iwona Flis (University of Gdańsk)-- Cooperation among professional diasporic associations - PIASA’s contacts with East European academic and cultural organizations in the U.S.
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk)-- Polish Americans in the Sources of Intelligence Services
Andrzej Pieczewski (University of Łódź)-- Polish diaspora in Belarus: functioning under the Lukashenka regime
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Friday, January 7 1:30-3:00
Session #4: BOOK: WRITING THE POLISH AMERICAN WOMAN IN POSTWAR ETHNIC FICTION BY GRAZYNA J. KOZACZKA (Ohio University Press, 2019), winner of the Polish American Historical Association's Oskar Halecki Prize for the best monograph, and Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America The Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award.
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Panelists: Grazyna J. Kozaczka - author (Cazenovia College); Mary Patrice Erdmans (Case Western Reserve University); Karen Majewski (Independent Scholar)
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Friday, January 7 3:30-5:00
Session #5: WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Christopher Blackburn (The University of Louisiana at Monroe) - Spirits are Splendid: Morale, Welfare, and Recreation in the Polish Camp, 1917-1918
Agata Błaszczyk (Polish University Abroad [PUNO], London) - The Experience of Deportation, Exile and Displacement of the Polish children to Post-War Britain
Vivian Reed (Independent Scholar) - Two Americans in Poland: Hugh Gibson and Anson Goodyear [prerecorded presentation posted below]
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Saturday, January 8 8:30-10:00
Session #6: POLISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Karen Majewski (Independent Scholar)
Marta Cieślak (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) - Imagining American Womanhood: Progressive Reformers and Immigrant Women in American Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann (Eastern Connecticut State University) - “We’ll Live Through This Cooking”: Reading Polish American Community Cookbooks
John Radzilowski (University of Alaska) - Tracking Secondary Migration among Polish and Slovak Immigrants
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Saturday, January 8 10:30-12:00
Session #7: POLONIAN BIOGRAPHIES
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Mary Patrice Erdmans (Case Western Reserve University)
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk) and Anna Podciborska (University of Gdańsk) - Polish Americans in US Diplomatic Service since World War II – Preliminary Survey
Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) – Murder in South Africa: Janusz Waluś and the Assassination of Chris Hani
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Saturday, January 8 1:30-3:00
Session #8: POLISH AND JEWISH IDENTITIES
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Marta Cieślak (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Mary Patrice Erdmans (Case Western Reserve University) - Jewish Polish Identity Construction in Wroclaw, New York City, and Mississippi
Grazyna J. Kozaczka (Cazenovia College) - Between a Polish Shiksa and a Jewish Woman: Ambiguous Identities in Eva Mekler's Novels
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Saturday, January 8 3:30-5:00
Session #9: POLISH AND EAST EUROPEAN DIASPORAS: THE COLD WAR ERA
Napoleon Ballroom A1 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair: Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Kinga Alina Langowska (University of Gdansk) - Seeking transnational partnerships and international sponsors – a microhistorical look into the fate of political exiles in the 20th century
Robert A. Sloma (Independent Scholar) - Finding Meaning in a Cold War Era Love Letter
Comment: Chair and Audience
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Saturday, January 8 evening (6:00 pm)
PAHA Awards Banquet: The Green Room/Kukhnya
1300 St. Bernard Avenue New Orleans