PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce a virtual event and presentation by Professor Grażyna Kozaczka from Cazenovia College. The title of her presentation is “Being a Woman in Polish American Fiction.” During this event, Professor Kozaczka will be formally presented with the Institute’s 2020 Waclaw Lednicki Award in the Humanities for her book, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction (Ohio University Press, 2019), from which her presentation is drawn. Anna Frajlich-Zając, PIASA’s 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award recipient and chair of the Lednicki Committee, will introduce Professor Kozaczka. https://wvu.zoom.us/rec/share/LLkVf_TnzMKl1kbjCgj9IOqsUR2ByC04WvVVeUgO53VwUv01LX7elXES4lKxWltA.g_Xj1iGpeIspLYof?startTime=1621093496000 Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Virtual event and presentation featuring Professor Anna Krakus of the University of Copenhagen The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce a virtual event and presentation featuring Professor Anna Krakus of the University of Copenhagen on Saturday, May 1, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., US Eastern Time. During this event, Professor Krakus will be formally presented with the Institute’s 2020 Ludwik Krzyzanowski Award for the best article published in The Polish Review in 2019. Following her receipt of the Krzyzanowski Award, Professor Krakus will present ““No End in Sight: Tadeusz Konwicki’s Complicated Closures.” Participating in the discussion will be Prof. Marek Haltof of Northern Michigan University and Prof. Joanna Trzeciak Huss of Kent State University. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA News & Events Virtual event and presentation featuring Professor Dominic Pacyga of Columbia College The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce a virtual event and presentation featuring Professor Dominic Pacyga of Columbia College, Chicago, on Saturday, April 24, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., US Eastern Time. During this event, Professor Pacyga will be formally presented with the Institute’s 2020 Oskar Halecki Polish History Award in recognition of his book American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago (University of Chicago Press). Following his receipt of the Halecki Award, Professor Pacyga will present “Chicago: The Capital of Polonia.” Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 2 April 2021 To open my remarks for this issue of the newsletter, I had hoped to begin with a note of enthusiasm for our upcoming conference in Białystok. Alas, this was not to be. In February, together with our hosts from the University of Białystok, we decided the risks to public health and the possibilities of another lockdown were still too great. After having to cancel the 2020 conference planned for Chicago, postponement of the Białystok conference to June 2022 came as an obvious disappointment.Like many of you, we also grieve personal lossesin our case, the passing of our fellow board member Rachel Feldhay Brenner, a distinguished scholar of Polish and Jewish Holocaust literature, and of our former board member and renowned cell biologist, Zbigniew (Zbyszek) Darzynkiewicz. We honor their memory by recognizing their out-standing contributions to their fields and the many efforts they devoted to the work of PIASA.On a more positive note, we continue to remain active in other ways. We selected the new recipients of our various awards (see page 2) and plan to recognize them by hosting or co-hosting webinars and virtual conversations in their honor. And, in the year of the pandemic our membership numbers are up, visits to our revamped web-site have doubled, readership and submissions to The Polish Review continue to grow, and we have received very positive feedback following publication of the first issue of our newsletter.In closing, I hope that as you read or scroll through this issue you will share my impression that PIASA, well into the eighth decade of its existence, is an organization of renewed vitality and purpose. ― Robert Blobaum, PIASA President
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT People PIASA remembers In memory of Dr. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz We regret to inform our members that Dr. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz passed away after a long illness on February 28, 2021. He was a world-renowned biologist, specializing in fundamental cancer research, was associated with New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, served as a distinguished professor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Cornell University, and was a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Dr. Darzynkiewicz also authored over 800 scientific articles and many books, was an editor of several prominent journals, served as the President of international medical societies and earned a plethora of honors and awards, including The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award from PIASA in 2014. His ongoing, deep commitment to the Polish American community took many forms, including the key role he played in establishing the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry and many years of service as a PIASA Board Member.Always warm and positive, Dr. Darzynkiewicz helped and supported all who had the privilege of knowing him. His legacy will be honored by all.Dr. Darzynkiewicz is survived by his wife, Elisabeth Darzynkiewicz, M.D., two sons, Richard and Robert, and grandchildren. In memory of Rachel Brenner It is with deep sorrow that we mourn the passing of Professor Rachel Feldhay Brenner, a member of the PIASA Board of Directors from 2018 until February 4, 2021, the day of her death in Madison, Wisconsin. Born in Zabrze in 1946, Rachel earned advanced degrees in Israel and Canada before joining in 1992 the faculty of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin where she had just been selected as the inaugural Temkin Professor in Hebrew language and literature. Professor Brenner specialized on the Holocaust in Hebrew, Canadian and, over the last decade, Polish literatures, the subject of her last two highly acclaimed books published by Northwestern University Press: The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (2014) and Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947 (2019). Rachel presented her research for these books at successive PIASA conferences in the United States and Poland, collegial settings where she found receptive audiences and where she established many new friendships. Beyond her academic achievements, Rachel is remembered as a teacher devoted to her students and as an inspirational mentor to a generation of young scholars. As a member of the PIASA board, Professor Brenner eagerly volunteered her valuable service for the greater benefit of the Institute, most recently in conference planning and coordination. Rachel Brenner’s legacy will live on in her award-winning scholarship and especially in the memory of those of us who had the good fortune to know her. Photo source: www.polin.pl In memory of Dr. Waclaw Szybalski An internationally known authority on molecular biology, genetics and microbiology, Professor Szybalski earned his Ph.D. at the Gdansk Institute of Technology in Poland and, after moving to the US was a Professor of Oncology in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. His many contributions to medical research include Dr. Szybalski’s studies on mutagenesis and genomics. He was also among the first to formulate the concept of multi-drug antibiotic therapy. PIASA honored these accomplishments, awarding Dr. Szybalski the Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award. He made the world a better place. May we all, in our own way, strive to do the same. Photo source: www.lwow.home.pl Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is pleased to announce its 2020 award recipients: The Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award for best article published in The Polish Review in 2019: Dr. Anna Krakus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, for “Death is Merely a Comma: Immortality in the Cinema and Literature of Tadeusz Konwicki” (vol. 64, no. 4). The Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award: Dr. Anna Frajlich-Zając, Senior Lecturer Emerita of Polish Language and Literature, Columbia University for her many contributions to Polish culture in poetry, prose, and literary studies extending over several decades. The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award: Dr. Henryk Iwaniec, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University, for his outstanding contributions to analytic number theory. The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award: Dr. Dominic A. Pacyga, Professor Emeritus, Columbia College (Chicago), for his book American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2019). The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award: Dr. Władek Minor, Harrison Distinguished Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia and Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, for their development of software for the medical applications of crystallograghy and their entrepreneurship in promoting its distribution. The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities: Dr. Grażyna J. Kozaczka, Distinguished Professor of English, Cazenovia College, for her book Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction (Ohio University Press, 2019). The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences: Dr. Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University, for her outstanding scholarship on the development and transformation of the state, political parties, religion and politics, and post-communist politics in Poland and East-Central Europe. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Bialystok 2021 Conference Cancellation Announcements The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) regrets that, given the on-going restrictions on travel and gatherings occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, it must reschedule its World Congress of Polish Studies in Białystok, Poland, originally planned for June 10-13, 2021. A new call for papers and complete panels will be issued in the fall for the rescheduled Congress, which will be hosted by the University of Białystok in June 2022. In the meantime, those who have already booked hotel reservations and/or airline tickets should cancel them as soon as possible. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Interview with Anna Frajlich Please join the Harriman Institute and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) on January 27, 2021 at 12:00 noon for an interview with Anna Frajlich, author of The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays (Academic Studies Press, 2020) and recipient of PIASA’s 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award. The interview about the critical prose collection of the award-winning poet will be conducted by the volume’s editor, Ronald Meyer of the Harriman Institute. Robert Blobaum, President of PIASA, will chair the event. This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. For more information and to register for this event, please click this link: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-book-talk-the-ghost-of-shakespeare Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1 January 2021 Greetings! We are pleased to present to you the first quarterly issue of the new PIASA Newsletter. At a time when we are unable to network with each other in person, it’s important to provide our members and friends an opportunity to keep abreast of important events in the life of the Institute and happenings within the Polish studies community. In it you will find news about conferences, a members’ forum, our most recent award recipients, scholarship and fellowship opportunities, recently published books, the achievements of fellow members and much more. What a year it has been! The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic led to the temporary closure of our office in New York and the cancellation of our conference planned for Chicago in June. The latter was particularly regrettable because of the quality of the panel and paper submissions we had received before that decision was made. Nonetheless, we have pressed ahead with planning for a June 2021 world congress in Białystok, in expanding our membership, in putting out calls for nominations for the 2020 awards and in preserving and digitizing of our archives. We are especially proud of the growing reputation and readership of our journal, The Polish Review, thanks to the efforts of its editorial team.We trust that the new year will be better than the last for the entire Polish studies community. On behalf of PIASA’s Board of Directors, I wish you all the best for Wszystkiego najlepszego! ― Robert Blobaum, PIASA President
PIASA News & Events about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT The Kosciuszko Foundation has the pleasure of inviting you to: “Maria Sklodowska Curie – A Pioneer for Women in Science?” For more than 100 years, Maria Sklodowska Curie has been inspiring generations of scientists around the world. “Madame Curie” (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to receive two Nobel Prizes, and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. In 1927, in a letter sent to Kosciuszko Foundation’s Founder, Stephen Mizwa, Marie Curie agreed to establish a scholarship fund in her name. As part of the KF online programs, we have the pleasure of inviting you to the webinar discussing her life, her body of work, and her legacy as Poland’s greatest scientist. Thursday, December 3, 2020, 8:00 PM ESTREGISTER HERE http://susanquinnbooks.com/about/ Dr. Maria Siemionow – a world-renowned scientist and microsurgeon http://www.clevelandclinic.org/lp/face_transplant/docs/siemionow-bio.pdf Dr. Keiko Kawashima – Professor of history of science, Nagoya Institute of Technology https://www.ne.jp/asahi/kaeru/kawashima/e_home.html The discussion will be moderated by Nobel Prize-winning scientist, the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, and a member of the KF Collegium of Eminent Scientists – Dr. Roald Hoffmann http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/short-biography Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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 A panel discussion featuring: Susan Quinn – an award-winning author of biography: Marie Curie: A Life http://susanquinnbooks.com/about/ Dr. Maria Siemionow – a world-renowned scientist and microsurgeon http://www.clevelandclinic.org/lp/face_transplant/docs/siemionow-bio.pdf Dr. Keiko Kawashima – Professor of history of science, Nagoya Institute of Technology https://www.ne.jp/asahi/kaeru/kawashima/e_home.html The discussion will be moderated by Nobel Prize-winning scientist, the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, and a member of the KF Collegium of Eminent Scientists – Dr. Roald Hoffmann http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/short-biography Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 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
