The Kosciuszko Foundation presents a webinar “Henryk Sienkiewicz in the Digital Age” by Bartlomiej Szleszyński. Dr. Szleszyński is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, with interest in digital platforms; he is a deputy director of the Digital Humanities Centre. Does Henryk Sienkiewicz, a man
The Kosciuszko Foundation and the Jagiellonian Law Society present a webinar “Lex is Rex? The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth” by Robert Frost. Dr. Frost is a professor of history and philosophy at the Aberdeen University, UK. Poland and Lithuania, early medieval adversaries, were joined first in 1386, when the Polish Queen,
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to a lecture Interhuman History: How Magdalena Grzebałkowska Rewrites the Aftermath of World War II in “Poland 1945: War and Peace” by Prof. Beth Holmgren. Magdalena Grzebałkowska, 48, is an award winning writer and a reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza daily. The book was
This event was rescheduled to April 27, 2021. The UW Henry Jackson School of International Studies presents a lecture Anti-Gender Politics And Right-Wing Populism in Poland by Elżbieta Korolczuk. Dr. Korolczuk is an Associate Professor of sociology at the Södertörn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center at Warsaw University.
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a webinar in the Polish Contemporary Literature series My Country’s Other Names: Poland’s New Wave Poets of the 1970s. The event includes talk by Jarosław Anders followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Małgorzata Pośpiech. In the late 1960s a new poetic formation emerged
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to a lecture Women and the Writing of Polish Jewish History before the Holocaust by Prof. Natalia Aleksiun-Madrzak. The lecture discusses social and cultural backgrounds of Polish Jewish female historians and their contributions as a minority historians, public intellectuals and Jewish women finding their
Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar Women Fighters of Polish Independence by Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś. Dr. Nowakowska-Wierzchoś is An assistant-Professor at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, with interest in Polish social history, women’s and gender history. Her talk discusses different ways women engaged in the
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar The Transatlantic Lives of Polish American Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Marta Cieślak. Dr. Cieślak is is currently a Humanities Scholar at the Center of Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where
The Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) present the webinar honoring Prof. Jack Szostak. Dr. Szostak is the 2009 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine. He is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard and a
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to an online lecture (Why) Did Socialism Fail in Poland? by Brian Porter-Szutz. Prof. Porter-Szutz teaches history at the Univ. of Michigan – Ann Arbor and specializes in economic and intellectual history of capitalism and socialism as well as of the Roman Catholicism
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar A Polish Mistress of the Brush: Olga Boznańska by Ewa Bobrowska. Dr. Bobrowska is an art historian based in Paris with interest in the 19th c. and the 20th c. Polish artists working abroad. Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) was one of the most renowned
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to an online lecture From Ours to Alien: The Journey of Polish OBCY” by Katarzyna Dziwirek. Prof. Dziwirek is the Chair of the UW Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures; her research focuses on semantics & syntax and especially in expressions of emotion and perception. The
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar Beyond the Battle of Warsaw, The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920 in Western Geopolitics by Piotr Puchalski. Dr. Puchalski is an Assistant Professor of modern European history at the Pedagogical University in Cracow. The Battle of Warsaw, fought on August 12-25, 1920, also known as