Polish American
Historical Association to Examine Critical Issues in the Past and Present of
Polish Immigrant Communities
On January 2-4,
2014 in Washington D.C., PAHA will explore social, historical, and cultural
aspects in the lives of Polish émigré communities in America
Los
Angeles, December 10, 2013 – On January 3 and 4, 2014, one of Polonia’s most
venerable organizations will hold its Annual Meeting at the Marriott Wardman
Park Hotel in Washington D.C. The conference will gather over 30 scholars
presenting their current research during eight scholarly sessions dedicated to
such topics as: Protest and Exile, Polish Immigrant and Ethnic Women, Between
the Revolutionary War and World War II, Polish Immigrant and Ethnic Identities,
Religious Leaders and Communities, and Stories of World War II. Individual presenters
will discuss: Pułaski’s burial, Polish troops in the American Civil War,
General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, Pope John Paul II in America, World War
II mementos and family histories, Polish children in exile, Polish-Jewish
émigré composers and their inclusion into Polish music history, writings by
women, American support for Warsaw in 1944, Polish-American press in Canada and
the U.S., careers of second generation émigrés, Polish documents at the Library
of Congress, dialects in Polish folk theater, and much more.
A special book forum will be dedicated
to Mieczysław B.B. Biskupski’s The United
States and the Rebirth of Poland, 1914–18 (with comments by noted
historians Prof. Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Prof. James
Pula, Purdue University North Central). The Conference will end with a screening
of Mariusz Kotkowski’s Pola Negri: Life
is a Dream in Cinema held on Saturday,
January 4, 2014: 5:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Jefferson Room.
PAHA Annual Awards for research in the
field of Polish American Studies will be announced during the Annual Awards
Banquet on Friday, January 3, 2014. Registration is open on PAHA Website: www.polishamericanstudies.org.
About
PAHA
The Polish American Historical
Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt, interdisciplinary organization devoted
to the study of Polish American history and culture. Founded in 1942 as part of
the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, PAHA became an autonomous
scholarly society in 1948. As an affiliate of the American Historical
Association, PAHA promotes research and dissemination of scholarly materials
focused on Polish American history and culture, and its European origins. PAHA publishes a biannual scholarly
journal, Polish American Studies
and a quarterly newsletter. The organization sponsors an
annual conference, in conjunction with the American Historical
Association, which serves as a forum for research in the field of ethnic
studies. The organization confers the
annual Haiman Award for sustained scholarly effort in the field of
Polish American Studies, awards the annual Halecki Prize for the best
book on a Polish American topic and the annual Swastek Prize for the
best article appearing in Polish American Studies, as well as sponsors many
other awards. PAHA has over 600 international members, including both
individual and institutional memberships; membership is open to all individuals
interested in the fields of Polish American history and culture, and
immigration studies. In 2011, PAHA sponsored the critically acclaimed Polish American Encyclopedia, published
by McFarland and edited by Prof. James Pula.
More
information:
Dr.
Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D.
Online
Communications Director
&
PAHA News editor
PAHANews.blogspot.com
818
384 8944
