2021 February announcements
More events to be added to this page soon
On February 28th, 2021
submissions are due for the contest
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The contest challenges all to give their knowledge of Polish heritage a test by identifying images on the new cover of the “Do You Know Poland?” booklet.
More information about the contest
and detailed submission rules are
► available for download here ◄
along with a reprint of PAC_WI President’s introduction of the contest
in the national PAC newsletter.
On February 18th at 4pm,
all are invited to the lecture sponsored by
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Polish Heritage Club of Wisconsin-Madison
SINCE 1989 – POLAND’S DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE
by Prof. Donald Pienkos
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
and Chair of the Polish Studies Committee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
In 1989, Poland, thanks primarily to the efforts
of the Solidarity movement, emerged from 44 years of Soviet Russian domination to establish a new system of representative democratic government. Given its people’s extremely difficult situation at that time (coupled with Poland’s failed experience with democratic governance in the years after its national rebirth in 1918), few observers were hopeful about the chances for democratic governance after 1989. Why they were proven wrong, how Polish democracy has developed over the past three decades, and what we can learn from Poland’s experience – both from its successes and its challenges – are covered in this talk.
Visit the PHC-Madison page to
download materials accompanying the talk.
The Kosciuszko Foundation Gallery listed in the Do You Know Poland booklet is now open for virtual touring.
The gallery includes works by great Polish painters such as Jan Matejko, Józef Chełmoński, Jacek Malczewski, Wojciech Kossak, Tade Styka, Józef Brandt, Władysław T. Benda and others.
The gallery is located in the Van Alen Mansion, one of the NYC’s architectural treasures,
the Foundation’s home since 1945.
Click here – or on the image above –
to enter the gallery.
Poland Through the Centuries:
Who, What, Where, When?
In a series of lectures recorded on the invitation from the Polish Center of WI, Prof. NEAL PEASE (UW-Milwaukee) explains how much Poland, its boundaries and the very idea of Polishness, have changed over the centuries
Click here – or on the image below –
to view the first lecture
LOST BORDERS: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC
From the Kosciuszko Foundation FB page, here comes an extraordinary online report from the journey along the frontiers of pre-war Poland – including the territories of today’s Poland (Kashubia, Greater Poland, Silesia), through the Czech Republic and Ukraine, to Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania.
“The journey is not about stone pillars, but ordinary people who, despite the
atrocities of the 20th century, were trying to survive on the erased border,”
say authors Tomasz Grzywaczewski and Kaja Grzywaczewska.
►Click here to begin the journey◄
Archived Posts
- 2021 February announcements
- 2021 DYKP Contest, KF Gallery and Dr. Pease lectures
- 2020 Help Enact Resolution commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre
- 2020 Independence And Veterans Day
- 2020 Remembering Paderewski
- 2020 POLISH HERITAGE MONTH
- 2020 Solidarity born 40 years ago
- 2020 Battle of Warsaw Centenary
- 2020 The Warsaw Rising Remembrance
- 2020 June/July News: Polish Elections, Polish Films Online and more
- 2020 Poland: Virtual Tours
- Centennial of John Paul II’s Birth
- 2020 Celebrating Polish Flag, Polonia and Constitution of May 3rd
- 2020 Polish Easter Traditions
- 2020 Census and Annual Election
- Flavor of Poland (Update 3)
- 2020 Copernicus, Banach & Enigma talk
- 2020 Do You Know Poland and other announcements
- 2020 Flavor of Poland (Update 2)
- 2020 People and Events of the Year
- 2019 Holidays
- 2019 December Medley
- 2019 Independence Celebration
- 2019 Independence Invitation
- 2019 WI Study in Poland Reports
- Lecture: Poland’s Entry Into the NATO
- August 2019 anniversaries
- 2019 Polish Fest
- Celebrating Polish Constitution and Ignacy Paderewski
- WSIP 2018 Reports (Wisconsin Study in Poland)
- 2018 Christmas Carols
- 2018 Polish Independence and Veterans Day
- November 2018 events
- October 2018 Events
- 2018 Kashube Lecture Notes
- September 2018 events
- 2018 Polish Fest Report
- Upcoming 2018 Polish Fest
- Celebrating Polish Constitution Day
- Poland 1979-1989 (panel discussion)
- Protest the Passage of S.447 in the U.S. House of Representatives
- STOP H.R.1226
- 2018 People and Events
- 2017 Polish Christmas Carols