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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT 10 wydarzeń, które ukształtowały Uniwersytet Warszawski The AFUW in cooperation with Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) hosted a lecture and presentation by Prof. Robert Gawkowski of Warsaw University. Prof. Gawkowski’s “10 Major Events in the History of the University of Warsaw” was a fascinating combination of little known facts, interesting details, and satirical commentary. We extend our profound thanks to Prof. Gawkowski for creating an absolutely brilliant show, and to all attendees for sharing memories of your time at the university and the great conversations which followed the event. Video in Polish. 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 Memory of March 1968 in Poland – Prof. Natalia Aleksiun lecture at PIASA The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America would like to invite you to a lecture by Professor Natalia Aleksiun, PhD Warsaw University and NYU “The Memory of March 1968 in Poland” March 1, 2018 at 6:30pm Natalia Aleksiun is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. She studied East European and Jewish history in Poland, where she received her first doctoral degree at Warsaw University, as well as Oxford, Jerusalem and New York, where she received her second doctoral degree at NYU. Among several prestigious fellowships, she was a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, Germany; Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Fellow at Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna, a Yad Hanadiv Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel and Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington D.C., and the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She published a monograph titled Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944-1950, and numerous articles in Yad Vashem Studies, Polish Review, Dapim, East European Jewish Affairs, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Polin, Gal Ed, East European Societies and Politics, Nashim and German History. She coedited the twentieth volume of Polin, devoted to the memory of the Holocaust and the 29th volume titled Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe. Her book titled “Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust” will be published with Littman in 2018. She is currently working on a new edition of Gerszon Taffet’s Zagłada Żydów Żółkiewskich, a new book about the so-called cadaver affair at European Universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust 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 “Ernestine Rose (1810 – 1892), A Polish Born Leader of the American Woman’s Suffrage Movement” by Norman Kelker The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America would like to cordially invite you for the lecture “Ernestine Rose (1810 – 1892), A Polish Born Leader of the American Woman’s Suffrage Movement ” by NORMAN KELKER on: May 18th at 6:30pm Ernestine Rose (1810 – 1892), A Polish Born Leader ofthe American Woman’s Suffrage MovementThursday, May 18, 2017, 6:30 PMA Lecture by Norman KelkerThe Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America208 East 30th StreetNew York, NY 10016 Ernestine Rose was a Polish born campaigner for human rights and a major figure in the American women’s struggle to gain the right to vote. She arrived in the United States in 1836 and began 32 years devoted the woman’s suffrage movement. Armed with magnificent oratory, superb debating skills and a keen mind she traveled throughout the country in an unceasing effort to gain the vote for women. She fought slavery advocates, anti-suffrage ministers, senators and congressman and anyone else who stood in the way of human rights. Ernestine Rose’s life is a unique testimony to the cause of freedom. She lived her life as she wrote in a letter to Susan B. Anthony, “All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of women’s rights in general, and the elevation of woman in particular, nearly all my life.” 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 Can We slow, stop or even reverse aging? The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America – would like to cordially invite you for a lecture by Zbigniew Darzynkieiwcz, MD, Ph.D “Anti-aging Strategies Founded on Molecular Mechanism of Aging” and Dr. Radek Dobrowolski, Ph.D “Managing Molecular Waste in Aging and Neurodegeneration” Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, Ph.D.,will present a lecture entitled:“Anti-aging Strategies Founded on Molecular Mechanisms of Aging”Dr. Darzynkiewicz’s research concentrates on cell biology with a focus on molecular mechanisms associated with cell proliferation, apoptosis, and sensitivity to anti-cancer drugs.Among many honors, he is a 2014 recipient of the PIASA’s Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award. Dr. Radek Dobrowolski, Ph.D.,will give a lecture entitled:“Managing Molecular Waste in Aging and Neurodegeneration”Dr. Dobrowolski specializes in the molecular mechanisms leading to neuronal death as observed in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. He also works on developing new therapeutic compounds to prevent the destructive processes within the brain that are triggered by traumatic brain injury. 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 Lecture by Professor Killion Munzele Munyama The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations would like to cordially invite you to join us for a lecture by Professor Killion Munzele Munyama Thursday, December 3rd at 6:30pm.Professor Munzele Munyama will be discussing the Alternative Forms of Economic Labor Market Cooperation in the EU – a View from Poland. Professor Killion Munzele Munyama is a member of the Polish Parliament and lectures at the Economic University of Poznan and Economic University in Bydgoszcz. The event will take place at PIASA (208 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016). The lecture will be in English and a reception will follow. Please RSVP by Dec.1 at 212 6864184 or Polski Instytut Naukowy w Ameryce oraz Stałe Przedstawicielstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej przy Narodach Zjednoczonych w Nowym Jorku ma przyjemność zaprosić na wykład ProfesoraKillion Munzele Munyama czwartek, 3 grudnia, godz. 18.30.na temat alternatywnych form współpracy gospodarczej Polski, w dobie nasyconego rynku pracy Unii Europejskiej. Profesor Killion Munzele Munyama, wykładowca ekonomii na Uniwersytecie Ekonomicznym w Poznaniu oraz Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy, samorządowiec i polityk pochodzenia zambijskiego, poseł na Sejm VI i VII kadencji. Wykład odbędzie się w siedzibie PIASA (208 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016) i zostanie przeprowadzony w języku angielskim. Po wykładzie zapraszamy na nieformalną dyskusję z poczęstunkiem. RSVP do 1 grudnia: tel. 2126864164 lub email 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