Friday, June 12 - PIASA

1 4 friday , june 12 Annual Business Meeting Chair: M. B. B. Biskupski (Central Connecticut State University) This is the annual business meeting required by the Constitution and By-Laws of the Polis Institute of Arts & Sciences of America. It is open to all PIASA members. _____ Opening Ceremonies Chair: M. B. B. Biskupski (Central Connecticut State University) _____ Plenary Session A Tribute to Anna Ciencia a 9:30 am Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility Chair: M. B. B. Biskupski (Central Connecticut State University) Speakers: Joseph T. Hapak (Moraine Valley Community College) Elizabeth Morrow Clark (West Texas A & M University) Robert Szymczak (Pennsylvania State University-Beaver) Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 5 Concurrent Sessions friday , june 12 10:45 12:15 Poland s Postwar Economic Systems Chair: Jan Napoleon Saykiewicz (Duquesne Uni-versity) Robert Stopikowski (Ateneum University in Gda sk) Discussions on the Political and Economic System in Postwar Poland in Tygodnik Warszawski (1945-1948) Adam A.

2 Ambroziak (Warsaw School of Economics) Special Economic Zones in Po-land: 20 Years of Experience Tomasz Mroczkowski (American Universi-ty) Poland s Innovation Ecosystem: National, European or Global? _____ Celebrating the Contributions of Polish Studies Centers Chair: xxxxx Joanna Lustanski (CPRI) The 60th Anni-versary of the Canadian Polish Research Insti-tute: From the Past to the Future. Chances and Challenges Donald E. Pienkos (University of Wiscon-sin-Milwaukee) Sharing the Polish Experi-ence: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Polish Studies Committee Renata Vickrey (Central Connecticut State University) The Local Polish Community in Action the Polish Studies Program at Central Connecticut State University _____ Studies in Historical Memory Chair: James S.

3 Pula (Purdue University) Helga Schreckenberger (University of Ver-mont) Challenging the Victim Myth: Commem-orations of the Third Reich in Austrian Literature and Film since 1945 Piotr Zwierzchowski (Kazimierz Wielki Uni-versity, Bydgoszcz) Images of the People s Republic of Poland in Polish Cinema and Litera-ture after 1989 Silvia G. Dap a (John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) Dimensions of Jus-tice in Benjam n vila s films _____ Solidarity and Beyond Chair: xxxxx Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Solidarity's Twelfth Man: The Lechia-Juventus Soccer Match of 1983 Patryk Pleskot (Institute of National Re-membrance, Warsaw) In the Shadow of Solidarity : Canadian Political Attitudes Toward Poland During the 1980s Micha Schwabe (Warsaw School of Eco-nomics) Polish Migration to the UK After 2004 Reasons and Consequences _____ 12:15-1:30 LUNCH _____ 6 friday , june 12 Concurrent Sessions 1:30 3:00 The Third Republic A Roundtable Discussion Chair: Donald E.

4 Pienkos (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Adam A. Ambroziak (Warsaw School of Eco-nomics) Krzysztof Bledowski (Manufacturers Alli-ance) Mitchell A. Belfer (Metropolitan University Prague) Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Donald E. Pienkos (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Historical Memory in Postwar Poland Chair: xxxxx Anna Topolska (University of Michigan) Visualizing Memory of the Second World War: Photographs from Fort VII in Poznan Ela Rossmiller (American University) Memory and Justice in a Fractured Memory Re-gime Marek Haltof (Northern Michigan University) Screen Nazis in Post-war Polish Cinema 1944-1949 _____ Redefining the History of Poles in Canada: New Perspectives Sponsored by the Canadian Polish Research Institute Chair: xxxxx Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak (CPRI & Universi-ty of Toronto) A Means for Canadianization?

5 Interwar Polish Press in Canada Micha Kasprzak (CPRI & University of To-ronto) Redefining the Pole: Canadian Polonia in the 1950s Magda Blackmore (University of Winnipeg) Ethnics and Immigrants: Reinventing the Polish Community in Manitoba after 1980s _____ Topics in Polish Literature - I Chair: Norman Kelker (Enzio Biochem, Inc.) Thomas M. Prymak (University of Toronto) The Polish Legend of Byron s Mazeppa Beata Dorosz (Polish Academy of Science) The Famous George Orwell s Novel 1984: the Polish Chapter (based on PIASA ar-chives) [Needs to be friday ] J zef Figa (xxxxx) An Everyman Entangled in Everyday Life. The Humor of Marian Zalucki _____ Concurrent Sessions 3:15 4:45 Between Tragedy and Idyll: Two Chronotopes in Polish, German, and Russian Literature in the Early 19th Century Chair: Silvia G.

6 Dap a (John Jay College, CUNY) Micha Mrugalski (University of T bingen) Tragic Theory and the Aesthetics of the Deed in German, Polish, and Russian Literature 1789-1848 and Beyond Erik Martin (Europa-University Viadrina, Frankfort/Oder) Pleasant Places/Endangered Places: Transformation of the Idyll from Classi-cism to Romanticism _____ 7 friday , june 12 History of The Canadian Polish Research Institute (CPRI): Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Sponsored by the Canadian Polish Research Institute Chair: xxxxx Jacek Kozak (Canadian Polish Research Institute) Victor Turek, Founder of the CPRI: A Scientific Look at Polish Canadians Anna Reczy ska (CPRI & Jagiellonian Uni-versity) Benedykt Heydenkorn: His Extraordi-nary Life and Unusual Activity Among the Polish Diaspora in Canada Edward Soltys (CPRI) Rudolf K.

7 Kogler A Remarkable Man _____ Economics , Politics, and Society in Contemporary Poland The Annual Michael Sendzimir Session Chair: Bo ena Leven (College of New Jersey) Krzysztof Bledowski (Manufacturers Alli-ance) Poland s Banking System and Euro Ac-cession Jan Napoleon Saykiewicz (Duquesne Uni-versity) Poland s Success and a Pathology of Growth Remigiusz Urbanowski (Economic Section , Polish Embassy in Washington , DC) xxxxx _____ Jewish Spaces or Spaces for Jews in Poland? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Sponsored by the German Historical Institute Warsaw (GHIW) Chair: Chair Maria Cie la (German Historical Institute Warsaw) Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (German Histori-cal Institute Warsaw/Polska Akademia Nauk) A Symbolic Meeting Space.

8 Jiddish Newspapers in Poland Stephan Lehnstaedt (German Historical Institute Warsaw) Defining Nazi ghettos in Poland Then and Now Katrin Stoll (German Historical Institute Warsaw) The Topography of the Former Site of the Warsaw Ghetto: Spatial Constellation, Col-lective Symbols and Symbolic Practices _____ DINNER ON YOUR OWN 8 Saturday, june 13 Concurrent Sessions 9:00 10:30 The Great War Chair: Angela Pienkos (Polish Center of Wiscon-sin) Andrzej Pieczewski (University of d ) The Great War Predictions and Reality in Light of John Bloch s Future War M. B. B. Biskupski (Central Connecticut State University) The Pole Who Was Germa-ny's Most Dangerous Agent in World War I Ameri-ca.

9 Jan Lorys (Polish Museum of America) The Other Army Over There : Canada s Role in Raising Polonia s Army _____ Roundtable Polish Canadian Voices: English-language Literature by Authors of Polish Decent Sponsored by the Canadian Polish Research Institute Chair: Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak (CPRI & Univer-sity of Toronto) Eva Stachniak, Anna Szado, Aga Maksi-mowska, Jowita Bydlowska, Andrew Borkowski _____ Polish Reflections in Art & Architecture Chair: Hanna Chroboczek Kelker (New York Uni-versity School of Medicine) Daniel Stone (University of Winnipeg) The Polish Art Treasures in Canada 1940-1960 Ma gorzata Mizia (Tadeusz Ko ciuszko Kra-k w University of Technology) From Space to Painting Hanna Chroboczek Kelker (New York Uni-versity School of Medicine) The Photography of Jan Hausbrandt: Poland in the 1980s _____ Studies in Comparative Education Chair: Teresa G.

10 Wojcik (Villanova University) Julita Pacholczyk (University of Toronto) Poland s National Education Reforms (1999-2015) in the Context of Post-communist Transfor-mation, European Union Integration and Globali-zation Maria Milkowski and Teresa G. Wojcik (Villanova University) Examining the Relation-ship Between Teacher Education Curricula and Students Scores on International Tests in Poland and the United States Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych (Adam Mic-kiewicz University) The Changing Educational Ideal of the Democratic Citizen Polish, German and Dutch Experiences _____ Concurrent Sessions 10:45 12:15 Topics in Polish Literature, Theatre and Film Chair: Silvia G.