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Quo Vadis, Ukraina? Evening with Prof. Alexander Motyl

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT Quo Vadis, Ukraina? Evening with Prof. Alexander Motyl APRIL 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM 208 E 30th Street New York, NY 10016 RSVP: piasany@gmail.com or 212-686-4164 RSVP Aleksander Motyl He is one of the most outstanding American political scientists, Sovietologists, and specialists in Ukrainian studies. His work also focuses on nationalism, revolutions, and empires. He is one of the most well-known Americans of Ukrainian descent. He was born in New York into a Ukrainian family from Lviv that managed to escape from the Soviet Union. He graduated from the prestigious Jesuit Regis High School in Manhattan and studied history at Columbia University (1975), where he later earned a Ph.D. in political science (1984). He has taught at Columbia University, Lehigh University, and Harvard University and is currently a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark. He is the author of numerous books as well as a poet and painter. Other News EVERLASTING Christopher Brandon and Mark Butfiloski EXHIBITION EVERLASTING Christopher Brandon and Mark Butfiloski EXHIBITION • March 27, 2025 Quo Vadis, Ukraina? Evening with Prof. Alexander Motyl Quo Vadis, Ukraina? Evening with Prof. Alexander Motyl • March 19, 2025 WEBINAR – Misinformation and the American Pivot on Ukraine WEBINAR – Misinformation and the American Pivot on Ukraine • March 5, 2025 WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health • February 17, 2025 1 2 3 … 46 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Current Events webinars Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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DIMENSIONS – Janusz Obst exhibition

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT DIMENSIONS by Janusz Obst JANUSZ OBST is a classically trained artist from Zamosc, Poland, where he was born in 1946. As a young marine, he traveled the world, having spent much of his young adult life in Europe, China, Africa, and India. It was in India where he was captivated by sculpture, and for the last three decades, he has focused his work on bas-relief. His art permeates the interaction between the history of civilization, individual fate, current social and community-based issues, and his unfaltering interest in the interpersonal relations within the context of the modern world. Opening Night March 21, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 PM PIASA Townhouse on 208 E 30th St. in Manhattan Other News Quo Vadis, Ukraina? Evening with Prof. Alexander Motyl Quo Vadis, Ukraina? Evening with Prof. Alexander Motyl • March 19, 2025 WEBINAR – Misinformation and the American Pivot on Ukraine WEBINAR – Misinformation and the American Pivot on Ukraine • March 5, 2025 DIMENSIONS – Janusz Obst exhibition DIMENSIONS – Janusz Obst exhibition • March 4, 2025 PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel • February 17, 2025 1 2 3 … 45 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library current events webinars Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT PROJECT EAGLE: The Top Secret OSS Operation That Sent Polish Spies Behind Enemy Lines During World War 2 Author’s Evening And Book Signing After the Battle of the Bulge—which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate—the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe. Confronted with staff shortages and needing native language speakers, the OSS decided to enlist the cooperation of volunteers from occupied countries for intelligence-gathering operations. As part of Project Eagle, Polish soldiers were recruited and trained to go behind the lines of the Third Reich. Project Eagle tells this fascinating World War II story of intelligence and espionage that until now has been hidden away in the archives of the OSS.The OSS had worked with Polish exiles throughout the war, but Project Eagle would mark a new and dramatic chapter in their cooperation. In early 1945, American intelligence recruited thirty-two Poles—a unique group of men who had been forcibly conscripted into the German Wehrmacht, were captured in France and Italy, and were pulled from Allied prisoner of war camps. They were then trained in intelligence gathering as well as espionage to assist the Allies in their invasion of Germany. Not long after—in March 1945—they parachuted behind enemy lines, equipped only with falsified documents and radios. For six weeks, up until Germany’s surrender, the Polish spy teams roved Germany, assisting ground commanders and providing counterintelligence assistance. About this author John S. Micgiel has served as director of the Institute on East Central Europe, associate director of the Harriman Institute, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Europe, and adjunct professor of international and public affairs—all at Columbia University. He is past president of the Kosciuszko Foundation, which promotes cultural exchange between the United States and Poland. In 2011 he received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, an award honoring service to the Polish-American community. Now retired from Columbia, Micgiel teaches at the University of Warsaw. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. March 6, 2025 6:00 PM PIASA Townhouse on 208 E 30th St. in Mahattan RSVP on email: piasany@gmail.com or via link below: RSVP Other News WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health • February 17, 2025 PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel • February 17, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 • February 2, 2025 PIASA 2024 Awards Announement PIASA 2024 Awards Announement • January 1, 2025 1 2 3 … 45 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library current events webinars Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT The deadline for submissions for the 2025 PIASA conference in New York has been extended to March 1, 2025 To submit a paper or complete session, please send the name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, tentative paper title and brief one-paragraph abstract for each presenter to program organizers Patrice Dabrowski at pmd639@g.harvard.edu and Neal Pease at pease@uwm.edu. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2025, although earlier submissions are welcome since capacity is limited. All participants are encouraged to pay the conference pre-registration fee of $100, discounted to $50 for students, by May 10, 2025, as the conference fees will increase after that date. Pre-conference tours, lodging options, keynote plenary and banquet speakers, and locations for the Friday evening reception and the Saturday evening awards banquet will be announced later. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2025 REGISTRATION Other News WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health • February 17, 2025 PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel • February 17, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 • February 2, 2025 PIASA 2024 Awards Announement PIASA 2024 Awards Announement • January 1, 2025 1 2 3 … 45 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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PAHA Award for PIASA

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT PAHA award for PIASA On January 4, 2025 PIASA was honored by the Polish American Historical Association with the Skalny Civic Achievement Award during the annual PAHA conference in New York. The award, presented at the banquet hosted by the Kosciuszko Foundation, recognizes PIASA’s dedication to advancing knowledge about Poland and Polish Americans through lectures, symposia, conferences, and publications. Thank you, PAHA, for this honor, and thank you to everyone who supports our mission to foster understanding of Polish and Polish American heritage. Other News WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health • February 17, 2025 PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel • February 17, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 • February 2, 2025 PIASA 2024 Awards Announement PIASA 2024 Awards Announement • January 1, 2025 1 2 3 … 45 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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PIASA 2024 Awards Announement

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT PIASA 2024 Awards Announcement Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award to Promote Democracy and the Rule of Law. Recipient: The Team of Journalists at OKO Press, Warsaw. Casimir Funk Award in the Natural Sciences. Recipient: Dr. Piotr Chomczyński, Founder and Director of the Molecular Research Center, Cincinnati. Tadeusz Sendzimir Award in the Applied Sciences. Recipient: Dr. Wojciech Zaremba, Co-founder and Robotics Research Manager, OpenAI. Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume: Recipient: Halina Goldberg, Indiana University, and Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University, eds., for Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (Rutgers University Press, 2023). Honorable Mention: Stanley Bill, Cambridge University, and Simon Lewis, University of Bremen, eds., for Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences: Recipient: Magdalena Waligórska, Humboldt University, Berlin for Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Honorable Mention: Jack Palmer, University of Leeds, for Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill Queens University Press, 2023). Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities: Recipient: Agata Łuksza, Warsaw University, for Polish Theatre Revisited: Theatre Fans in the Nineteenth Century (University of Iowa Press, 2023). Honorable Mention: Sławomir Dobrzański, Kansas State University for Complete Piano Works of Feliks Łabuński (CD album and YouTube video performance, 2023). Oskar Halecki Award in Polish and East-Central European History: Recipient: Tomasz Grusiecki, Boise State University, for Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland (Manchester University Press, 2023). Ludwik Krzyżanowski TPR Best Article Award: Recipient: Dariusz Libionka, Polish Academy of Sciences, for “On Military Assistance to the Fighters of the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw – 80 Years Later,” translated by Philip Earl Steele and published in The Polish Review, vol. 68, no. 4 (December 2023). Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish Jewish Studies). Recipient: Janine Holc, Loyola University of Maryland for The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust (Brandeis University Press, 2023). Susanne M. Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award. Recipients: Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, Princeton Research Forum, and Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington and Lee University. Other News WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health WEBINAR – Private Parts, Public Discourse: Insights And Updates In Women’s Pelvic Health • February 17, 2025 PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel • February 17, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 • February 2, 2025 PAHA Award for PIASA PAHA Award for PIASA • January 9, 2025 1 2 3 … 45 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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Summary of PIASA 2024 Collection Preservation Project

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events CONTACT 2024 Grant Summary of the PIASA Collection Preservation Project From April 1 to November 30, we carried out a grant-funded project supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. The primary goal of the project is the preservation and promotion of PIASA Collections. In this year’s edition, we continued our ongoing work in the areas of elaborating, protecting, and preparing selected collections from the Archives for scanning and digitization. We also developed archival expertise reports to support the acquisition of new collections. Further initiatives include publishing online exhibitions, creating narrated recordings in the form of podcasts, and conducting school lessons. We actively engaged in social media, using significant anniversaries and events as opportunities to promote our collections through posts and by publishing digitized archival films and audio recordings from our collections on our YouTube channel. Od 1 kwietnia do 30 listopada prowadziliśmy projekt grantowy finansowany ze środków Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Głównym celem projektu jest ochrona zbiorów PIASA i ich popularyzacja. W tegorocznej edycji kontynuowaliśmy prowadzone dotychczas prace z zakresu: opracowania, zabezpieczenia, przygotowania do skanowanie i digitalizacji wybranych kolekcji ze zbiorów Archiwum. Opracowaliśmy ekspertyzy archiwalne na potrzeby przejęcia nowych kolekcji. Dalsze działania to m.in. publikacje wystaw online, nagrań lektorskch w formie podcastów i lekcje szkolne. Aktywnie działaliśmy w mediach społecznościowych przy okazji ważnych rocznic i wydarzeń upowszechniając tym samym nasze zbiory w formie postów, czy publikując zdigitalizowane filmy archiwalne i nagrania audio z naszych kolekcji na naszym kanale YouTube. Useful links: ONLINE EXHIBITION AUDIO RECORDINGS TEACHING CLASSES YouTube CHANNEL DIGITAL ARCHIVES Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Other News PAHA Award for PIASA PAHA Award for PIASA • January 9, 2025 PIASA 2024 Awards Announement PIASA 2024 Awards Announement • January 1, 2025 Summary of PIASA 2024 Collection Preservation Project Summary of PIASA 2024 Collection Preservation Project • November 30, 2024 PURIFICATION – the art exhibition PURIFICATION – the art exhibition • October 1, 2024 1 2 3 … 44 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

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Challenges in Flood Forecasting – WEBINAR

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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events WEBINARS CONTACT webinar Challenges in Flood Forecasting We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar, “Challenges in Flood Forecasting,” which will explore the profound impacts of extreme weather events. The lecture by Prof. Krajewski, the director of the Iowa Flood Center, will be facilitated by Prof. Smith from Princeton University. These conversations are increasingly important in light of recent floods that have affected countless lives and communities in southwestern Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria, as well as in the southeastern United States. These events highlight the growing challenges posed by climate change and the urgent need to better understand the dynamics of water systems and develop strategies to mitigate future risks. October 30, 2024 at 6 pm (EST) https://youtu.be/7Tg7rG4WVf4 Other News PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel PROJECT EAGLE – book talk with John S. Micgiel • February 17, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 CALL FOR PAPERS extended to March 1 • February 2, 2025 PAHA Award for PIASA PAHA Award for PIASA • January 9, 2025 PIASA 2024 Awards Announement PIASA 2024 Awards Announement • January 1, 2025 1 2 3 … 44 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Current Events Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164piasany@gmail.com DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

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