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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events 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: Female 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 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 Challenges in Flood Forecasting – WEBINAR Challenges in Flood Forecasting – WEBINAR • October 9, 2024 LECTURE: Security Threats – Polish Perspectives. LECTURE: Security Threats – Polish Perspectives. • 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) 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 current events CONTACT The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award for the Promotion of Democracy and the Rule of Law to Professor Wojciech Sadurski April 6, 2024, PIASA Townhouse, New York https://youtu.be/rt2BoLWL_3w Other News A new project for the year of 2024 A new project for the year of 2024 • May 14, 2024 M.C. ZACHAROW EXHIBITION M.C. ZACHAROW EXHIBITION • May 2, 2024 The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award to Professor Wojciech Sadurski The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award to Professor Wojciech Sadurski • April 16, 2024 The Short Story in a Polish Context: Classic Short Fiction from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries The Short Story in a Polish Context: Classic Short Fiction from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries • April 5, 2024 1 2 3 … 40 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) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events CONTACT 2024 PIASA Science Awards presented to Eminent Polish-American Scientists Prof. Tomasz Wierzbicki (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Prof. Alex Wlodawer (Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA) Friday, April 5, 2024, 6:00 PM The Kosciuszko Foundation 15 E 65th Street, New York, NY 10065 The Kosciuszko Foundation and The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA) cordially invite you to the joint event honoring distinguished Polish-American scientists Prof. Tomasz Wierzbicki of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Prof. Alex Wlodawer of the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA. The program will feature a presentation of the PIASA’s Tadeusz Sendzimir and Casimir Funk Awards to the respective scientists and a short lecture delivered by each laureate. A light reception will follow the presentations. The event is presented as part of the KF Collegium of Eminent Scientists Lecture Series. It is meant for a general audience, free and open to the public. Space is limited, and registration is required. Prof. Tomasz Wierzbicki: “Aluminum as Main Structural Material on Earth and in Space” Dr. Tomasz Wierzbicki is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His extensive contributions in the fields of mechanical stability and crashworthiness, spanning automotive, shipbuilding, battery, aluminum, and other industries, have earned him global recognition. Notably, his analyses of the Challenger Space Shuttle breakup, the Exxon Valdez spill, and the World Trade Center aircraft impact and collapse reconstruction have significantly advanced our understanding in these areas. During his talk at the PIASA Award Ceremony, Dr. Wierzbicki will delve into the ubiquitous use of aluminum in our everyday lives, from cars to buildings. He will also explore the future of aluminum, particularly its potential as the primary building material for infrastructure on Mars, a topic of increasing relevance in our rapidly evolving world. Prof. Alexander Wlodawer: “What can structural biology do for human health and the environment.” Methods employed in the field of structural biology in general, and in the investigation of three-dimensional protein structures in particular, have undergone tremendous changes in the last half-century. Detailed knowledge of such structures is the key to the development of drugs, with the treatment of AIDS providing a textbook example of the successful use of structural information for that purpose. The development of enzymes that can be used to remediate plastic pollution provides another example. Experimental methods used to study protein structures include X-ray and neutron crystallography, NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), and, more recently, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Recent developments of artificial intelligence-based computational approaches to structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have been truly revolutionary. During his lecture, Prof. Wlodawer will illustrate these subjects with examples of work from his laboratory, as well as by other scientists. Dr. Alexander Wlodawer received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1974. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, he joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1976 and then moved to the National Cancer Institute in 1978. Until 2020, he was Chief of the Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory and now is Senior Investigator. Some of the areas of his interest are directly involved in elucidating structural features of molecules that could explain their importance to understanding cancer, AIDS, and COVID-19, but he is also active in the development of methods for protein crystallography. Dr. Wlodawer is a coauthor of 425 publications and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, is an elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a recipient of the NCI Mentor of Merit Award and of the Heyrovsky Honorary Medal (Czech Academy of Sciences). In 2015, he received the American Association for the Advancement of Science – Foundation for Polish Science Award for Collaborative Research (with Prof. Mariusz Jaskolski). Other News Literary Translation as a Safeguard Against Orthodoxy Literary Translation as a Safeguard Against Orthodoxy • April 10, 2024 The Short Story in a Polish Context: Classic Short Fiction from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries The Short Story in a Polish Context: Classic Short Fiction from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries • April 5, 2024 What Remains ART EXHIBIT What Remains ART EXHIBIT • April 3, 2024 Events in the New York area feat. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Events in the New York area feat. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski • April 3, 2024 1 2 3 … 40 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) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS current events CONTACT 2023 PIASA Awards Announcement PIASA is pleased to recognize and congratulate the recipients of its 2023 Awards: Ludwik Krzyżanowski Polish Review Best Article Award: Vitalii Borymskyi, Institute of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, “The Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 and ‘White Russia’,” The Polish Review, 67, 2 (March 2022): 64-85. Bronisław Malinowski Social Sciences Award: Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw, for his book The Polish Elite and the Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award: Alex Wlodawer, National Institutes of Health, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of structural biology. Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award: Tomasz Wierzbicki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of mechanical engineering. Oskar Halecki Polish History Award: Małgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois-Chicago, for her book Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland (Oxford University Press, 2022). Honorable Mention: Kyrill Kunakhovich, University of Virginia, for his book Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2022). Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies: Yechiel Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, for his book Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland’s Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2022), and Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, for her book Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton University Press, 2022). Anna M. Cienciala Best Edited Book Award: Irena Grudzińska Gross and Konrad Matyjaszek, both from the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, for Breaking the Frame: New School of Polish-Jewish Studies. An Introduction (Peter Lang, 2022). Honorable Mention: Katarzyna Fazan, Jagiellonian University, Michal Kobialka, University of Minnesota, and Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London, for A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award: Larry Wolff, New York University. The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award for the Promotion of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Agnieszka Holland, filmmaker, and Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney. Other News 2023 PIASA Awards Announcement 2023 PIASA Awards Announcement • January 19, 2024 Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 1 January 2024 Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 1 January 2024 • December 29, 2023 Media Statement Media Statement • December 14, 2023 Authors evening with Maria Hanna Makowiecka Authors evening with Maria Hanna Makowiecka • October 27, 2023 1 2 3 … 37 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) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

PIASA News & Events about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Karol Pilarczyk Award – call for nominations The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for its inaugural Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award to promote democracy and the rule of law. The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award furthers democracy and the rule of law by funding Polish and non-Polish citizens working in the areas of Polish studies and culture who seek to facilitate these broad goals. It is intended to support individual academics, journalists, writers, researchers, scientists, and artists by recognizing and publicizing the recipient’s accomplishments and/or promoting their future endeavors as relevant to the award’s general purpose through scholarship and creative work.  The recipient of the Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award will receive a $5000 prize and will also be recognized during PIASA’s annual conference in New Britain, Connecticut, June 9-10, 2023. Criteria The nomination should be based on a book, article, film, play, literary work, or project promoting democracy and the rule of law. The nominee’s accomplishments or future project must be related to Poland or, if not directly related to Poland, must be authored, created, or proposed by a person of Polish heritage, broadly understood. Nominations, including self-nominations, should include: A cover letter marking the submission as “The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Nomination.” A curriculum vitae of the nominee. Description of the nominee’s accomplishments or future project for which an award is sought and its contribution to democracy and the rule of law. The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2023  PIASA’s Board of Directors will serve as the award committee and is expected to reach a decision by May 15, 2023. Nominations should be directed to the President of PIASA, Robert Blobaum, at Latest News Karol Pilarczyk Award – call for nominations • March 1, 2023 Fulbright Opportunity in Warsaw • February 9, 2023 The Poetry of Exile and Return. A Reading by Anna Frajlich • January 25, 2023 PIASA Awards 2022 Recipients Announcement • January 17, 2023 1 2 3 … 5 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

PIASA News & Events about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT PIASA is pleased to recognize and congratulate the Recipients of its 2022 Awards Ludwik Krzyżanowski Polish Review Best Article Award Dariusz Stola, “There is a Polish-Jewish History beyond the Holocaust,” The Polish Review, 66, 4 (December 2021): 13-21. Bronisław Malinowski Social Sciences Award Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw, and Elżbieta Korolczuk, Södertörn University (Stockholm) and University of Warsaw, for their book Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment (Routledge, 2021). Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award Thomas Wisniewski, New York University School of Medicine, and Director of NYU’s Alzheimer Disease Center, in recognition of his discoveries of mechanisms that drive development of Alzheimer disease and could potentially lead to therapeutic interventions and development of vaccines. Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award Marcin Żukowski, co-founder and vice president of engineering at Snowflake Computing, one of the world’s major cloud-based data platforms, in recognition of his invention of vectorized query execution in databases. Oskar Halecki Polish History Award Kenneth B Moss, the University of Chicago, for his book An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland (Harvard University Press, 2021). Honorable Mention Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Jagiellonian University, Family, Taboo and Communism in Poland, 1956-1989 (Peter Lang, 2021). Waclaw Lednicki Award in the Humanities Katarzyna Bartoszynska, Ithaca College, Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Honorable Mention Aleksandra Kremer, Harvard University, The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording after World War II (Harvard University Press, 2021). Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies Alina Molisak, Warsaw University, Jewish Warsaw – Jewish Berlin: Literary Portrayal of the City in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Peter Lang, 2021). Honorable Mention Jan Rybak, University of York and University of London, Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2021). Anna M. Cienciala Best Edited Book Award Katharina Friedla, Hoover Institution Stanford, and Markus Nesselrodt, Europa-Universität Viadrina, eds., Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival (Academic Studies Press, 2021). Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award Irena Grudzińska Gross, Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Latest News PIASA Awards 2022 Recipients Announcement • January 17, 2023 Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 1 January 2023 • December 28, 2022 Loss to PIASA community • December 1, 2022 Farewell to Dr. Wieczerzak • November 21, 2022 1 2 3 … 5 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 about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT The Polish Review: Articles Shortlisted for the Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award The judges for the 2022 edition of the Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award for the Best Article published in The Polish Review in 2021 are pleased to announce our shortlist of five very strong articles, drawn from the list of thirty-three articles that appeared in the Review last year:  Jarosław Anders, “Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk: The ‘Tender Narrator’ and the Perils of Myth” Przemysław Czapliński, “Concatenations: On the Works of Olga Tokarczuk” (translated by Bartosz Woźniak) Karolina Kierlańczyk, “The American Polonia through the Eyes of Hieronim Derdowski: A Study Based on the Wiarus Weekly Magazine, 1886-1902” Masha Shpolberg, “Intermediality and the Staging of History in Stanisław Wyspiański’s The Wedding (1901) and Andrzej Wajda’s Film Adaptation (1973)” Dariusz Stola, “There Is a Polish-Jewish History beyond the Holocaust” The winner will be announced in January. Latest News The Polish Review: Articles Shortlisted for the Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award • November 9, 2022 Our accomplishments – awards • October 27, 2022 Lecture by Prof Witold Nazarewicz, PIASA Funk Award recipient • October 25, 2022 Designer Nuclei: Connecting Femtoworld with the Universe – A lecture by Prof. Witold Nazarewicz • October 6, 2022 1 2 3 … 5 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 about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Our accomplishments – awards During the 4th International Congress of Polish History, that took place at the Jagiellonian University, October 19-21, two awards were given: Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, PIASA member, received the Pro Historia PolonorumAward for his book: ‘The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733-1795: Light and Flame’, published by Yale University Press in 2020. The award is given for the best historical book on the history of Poland and Poles published in a foreign language between 2017 and 2021. Patrice Dabrowski received the Pro Historia Polonorum honorable mention award—for the best Polish history book by a non-Polish author published between 2017 and 2021. For her book The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine. Latest News Event on the 80th Anniversary of PIASA Founding • October 27, 2022 Lecture by Prof Witold Nazarewicz, PIASA Funk Award recipient • October 25, 2022 Event on the 80th Anniversary of PIASA Founding • October 7, 2022 Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 4 October 2022 • September 27, 2022 1 2 3 … 5 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St.  New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 686-4164 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