Austin Polish Society presents the Pola Negri Film Festival – “Early Years”. Pola Negri (1897-1987), the famous silent film star was born Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec in Poland and started her career in Warsaw theatres. She made her first movie in Poland in 1914, with eight other by 1917. Then she reinvented herself as a film actress in Germany. From 1917 to 1921 she made 24 movies there and her international career took off for good.
This event was rescheduled from February 10, 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 European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work/life balance and childcare, and allowing for
Life coach Aga Lawrynowicz invites busy moms and everybody else to an interview with Ewa Lichnowska. Aga Lawrynowicz is a local mentor, strategist and a certified life coach on a mission to help mothers get back time, live on purpose, and continue being a great mom along the way. She believes empowering mothers makes our society stronger and better. Read her manifesto about power and significance of mom-hood at her website Choose Clarity! Ew Lichnowska
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 European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work/life balance and childcare, and allowing for
Anthology Film Archives and Polish Cultural Institute NY present the program Avant-Garde Films By Polish Female Artists of the 1970s that includes short films by Izabella Gustowska, Iwona Lemke-Konart, Jolanta Marcolla, Natalia LL, Ewa Partum, Jadwiga Singer, Teresa Tyszkiewicz. Total running time is about 100 minutes. The 1970s represented a period of revival in Polish art, which manifested itself in artists’ interest in new media, among other aspects. An especially striking feature of the art
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a panel discussion Maria Skłodowska Curie – A Pioneer for Women in Science? The discussion will be moderated by Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Dr. Roald Hoffman. The panelists are Susan Queen – an award winning author of the biography Marie Curie: A Life, Dr. Maria Siemionow – a microsurgeon who performed the world’s first complete face transplant in Cleveland, OH and Dr. Keiko Kawashima – Prof. of history
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 place during interwar period in Poland, 1918-1939. Dr. Aleksiun-Madrzak is a Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Touro College in New York, with a
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 fight for Polish independence during 19th and 20th centuries, starting with the legendary Emilia Platter , and how that changed and expanded in the subsequent
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 she teaches modern, world and women’s history and runs a project investigating the unique experience of Polish female migrants in American cities at the turn
Local event Polish women from the Seattle area organize a protest at the Polish Cultural Center parking lot on Tuesday against the new abortion law in Poland. The Constitutional Tribunal in Poland ruled before the weekend that terminating a pregnancy due to a damaged fetus was unconstitutional, nullifying most of the abortion law that has been in force since 1993. The only exemptions left are in case of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s
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 Polish women painters, who after her arts studies in Cracow and Munich settled in Paris in 1898 and was active there, especially as a portraitist.
The Amazon original movie studio presents Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi based on the graphic novel by Laurel Redniss of the same title. This 2019 biopic of the double Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie (nee Maria Skłodowska) features a brilliant performance by Rosamund Pike as Madame Curie with Sam Riley as Pierre Curie. The film script is apparently a bit overloaded, but it highlights all the key moments of her life including discovery of polonium and radium,