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
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- 2025 Remembering Katyń Massacre (1940) and Smolensk Tragedy (2010)
- 2024 Independence Day and Veteran Day invitation
- 80th Anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
- 2024 Wianki Festival
- 2024 Polish Constitution Day in Wisconsin
- 2023 Merry Christmas
- 2023 Lighting the Light of Freedom on Dec 13 at 7:30pm
- Independence Day and Veteran Day invitation
- 2023 Wianki Festival
- 2023 May 3rd Constitution Day Celebration
- 2023 Lecture on Polish Borders by Prof. Don Pienkos
- 2023 REMEMBER THIS: Jan Karski movie premieres on PBS Wisconsin
- 2023 Upcoming lectures in the Polish Center of Wisconsin
- 2022 Polish National Independence Day
- 2022 Independence and Veteran Day Luncheon (invitation)
- 2022 Wianki, Polish Celebration of Noc Świętojańska (St. John’s Night)
- Celebrating Constitution of May 3, 1791 in Polish Center of Wisconsin
- 2022 Polish Constitution Day, Polish Flag Day and the Day of Polonia
- 2022 March Bulletin
- 2022 Polonia For Ukraine Donations
- 2022 Polish American Congress Condemns Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 PAC-WI State Division Letters to WI Senators and Representatives
- 2021 Polish Christmas Carols
- 2021 Panel Discussion: Martial Law in Poland 1981-1983 (REPORT)
- 2021 Panel Discussion: Martial Law. Poland 1981-1983 (invitation)
- 2021 Solidarity: Underground Publishing and Martial Law 1981-1983
- 2021 Polish Independence Day and Veterans Day
- 2021 Polish Independence Day and Veterans Day Luncheon
- 2021 Prof. Pienkos lecture: Polish Vote in US Presidential Elections
- 2021 POLISH HERITAGE MONTH EVENTS
- 2021 “Freedom” Monument Unveiled in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
- 2021 PCW Picnic and Fair
- 2021 Remembering Września Children Strikes (1901-1903)
- 2021 May 3 Constitution Day
- 2021 DYKP Contest Winners and Answers
- 2021 DYKP CONTEST EXTENDED and CASIMIR PULASKI DAY
- 2021 February announcements
- 2021 Polish Ministry of Education and Science oficials visit Wisconsin