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PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Prof. Adam Wibrowski “Paderewski Days in New York The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America would like to cordially invite you to the lecture by Prof. Adam Wibrowski “Paderewski Days in New York Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 6:30PM IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI – ICON OF INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF REGAINING POLISH INDEPENDENCE   As part of the international celebration of the 100th anniversary of regaining Polish independence, on November 15-19, a Polish-American project titled “Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Icon of Independence” will be presented in New York. The program includes a series of cultural events: concerts, recitals, shows, lectures and meetings with artists, which will take place in the festival formula under the shared motto “Paderewski Days in New York”. The originator of the project Adam Wibrowski (a member of international music associationspromoting the works of Maestro Paderewski in the world) and the project is supported by: RenesArt Foundation in Poland, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Polish & Slavic Center, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America PIASA. Activities are co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland as part of the competition “Cooperation in the field of public diplomacy 2018”. An important event of the project IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI – ICON OF INDEPENDENCE and PADEREWSKI DAYS IN NEW YORK will be a conference dedicated to Paderewski, with lectures open to the public. The main session of the conference will take place on November 15, 2018, 6:30 PM at PIASA – Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. During the lecture, Adam Wibrowski (artistic director of Paderewski Days) will talk about the musical and independence activities of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in the USA, and will present a historical and tourist guide “In the Footsteps of Paderewski in America”, which will premiere during “Paderewski’s Days in New York”. After the lecture a panel discussion with questions from the audience is planned. On November 17, a concert entitled „Paderewski in New York: 1891 Madison Square Garden Debut Revival Concert” will take place at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan. In the reconstruction of the historical first Paderewski’s solo recital from 1891, perform together pianists from Poland and the USA: Jakub Kuszlik and Timothy Jones. The program includes works by Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, Chopin and, of course, Paderewski. The event will be hosted by Adam Wibrowski – artistic director of Paderewski Days in NY. The Gala will be held at Bruno Walter Auditorium in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. Start: 2:30 PM / free entrance. Next day, November 18, the cultural events of the “Paderewski Days in New York” will take place in Brooklyn. In the headquarters of the Polish & Slavic Center (177 Kent Str.), the inhabitants of New York, including a large number of Polonia, will celebrate the 100thanniversary of the independence of Poland accompanied by music by Maestro Paderewski (start: 4:00 PM). The program includes: “Paderewski in New York” lecture cycle, an audiovisual show with live music and an evening piano recital performed by Jakub Kuszlik –the International Piano Competition laureate. During the ceremony, representatives of Brooklyn’s local authorities and the Polish community organizations will officially unveil a commemorative sculpture of Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The work was created by a well-knownPolish sculptor, Andrzej Renes. The sculpture will be placed on the fronton of the Polish & Slavic Center building – the largest Polish community organization in the USA. The sculpture will commemorate an outstanding pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski – is a cultural icon for both Poles and Americans, a symbol of universal values such as freedom and independence. The finale of the project will take place at the Polish Consulate General in New York on November 19, where Paderewski’s music will be performed during a concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of regaining Poland’s independence. The results of the project “IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI – ICON OF INDEPENDENCE”, photo and film relations and the course of cultural events “Paderewski Days” can be followed on the PADEREWSKI FOREVER Facebook page. 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) 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

PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT I love New York, 26 views on NY including: Poles, politics, feminism, books, sightseeing, food and sex. IASA invite you to watch the video [in Polish] of the meeting with Aneta Radziejowska – author of the book “I love New York, 26 views on NY including: Poles, politics, feminism, books, sightseeing, food and sex.”The meeting in Polish was conducted by Elzbieta Kieszczynska from EK Polish Bookstore 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) 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

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) 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

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) 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

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) 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