2003 Annual Meeting Program
Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2
5:30-10 pm Palmer House, Public Dining Room 8
Board Meeting followed by General Membership Meeting
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3
9:00 am Registration
9:30-11:30 am Palmer House, Parlor C SESSION ONE: THE ORIGINS OF THE POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: A LOOK BACK SIXTY YEARS
Chair: M.B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University
Boguslaw Winid, Embassy of the Republic of Poland: “Polish Foreign Policy toward the Polish American Community, 1919-39”
Thaddeus V. Gromada, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America: “At the Creation: Professor Oskar Halecki and PAHA”
Thaddeus Radzilowski, St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University: “PAHA, Orchard Lake and Its Place in Polish American Historiography”
Comment: William Galush, Loyola University of Chicago
1:00-3:00 pm Palmer House, Parlor C SESSION TWO: MEMOIRS AS HISTORY: WRITERS READ AND DISCUSS THEIR WORK
Chair: Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University
Panel: Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior
Gary Gildner, Drake University
Eugenia P. Zeitlin, Los Angeles Public Library
3:30-5:30 pm Palmer House, Parlor C SESSION THREE: CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION ISSUES IN CHICAGO POLONIA
Chair: Mary Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Celia Berdes, Northwestern University: “The Search for Community: Polonian Elderly and Polonian Workers in a Chicago Area Nursing Home”
Geraldine Balut Coleman, Loyola University of Chicago: “Educating Polish Immigrants Chicago Style, 1980-2000”
Mary Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University: “Skilled Suburbanites: Occupational and Residential Trends of New Immigrants in Chicago”
Maciej Wierzynski, Nowy Dziennik, New York: “Polonia Media Post-1989: Whose Interestes are Served?”
3:30-5:30 pm Palmer House, Parlor D SESSION FOUR: DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN POLONIA CULTURAL STUDIES
Chair: Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College, Chicago: “The Sacred in the City: The Polonian Street Procession as Countercultural Practice”
Justyna Pas, University of Michigan: “Putting Out the Fire: Language of Immigrant Emotions in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers”
Brian McCook, University of California at Berkeley: “‘For Their Own Freedom and the Rights of Man...’: Polish Radicalism in the Coalfields of the Ruhr Valley and Anthracite Pennsylvania, 1900-1924”
Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: “Diamonds Out of the Coal Mines: The Polish Place in American Baseball”
Comment: Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
7:00-9:00 pm Consulate General of the Republic of Poland RECEPTION, BY INVITATION
SATURDAY JANUARY 4
9:00 Registration
9:30-11:30 am Palmer House Parlor C SESSION FIVE: POLONIA ONLINE: ETHNICITY AND CYBERSPACE
Chair: Angela Pienkos, Polish Center of Wisconsin
John Radzilowski, University of Minnesota,: “Making the Broken Whole or Wholly Broken? Polish American Communication in the Internet Age”
David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University: “Stanislaw Lem’s Theory of the Virtual”
Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College, Chicago: “Polish Traditions.org: Virtual Ethnicity and the Ethnographic Museum Project”
Mark Chudzinski, Polish American Leadership Initiative: “PALI: The Polish American Leadership Initiative”
Comment: T. Ron Jasinski-Herbert, Polish National Alliance
9:30-11:30 am Palmer House Parlor D SESSION SIX: THEMES IN POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Chair: Thaddeus V. Gromada, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University: “The First Poles in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania, or How the Census Enumerator Almost Destroyed My Heritage”
James S. Pula, Utica College of Syracuse University: “Marie Zakrzewska: Pioneering Polonia Physician”
Stephen Leahy, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley: “Clement Zablocki as Ethnic Politician”
John Gurda, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: “Confronting the Ethnic Component in Writing the History of a City: Polish Americans in Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
Donald Pienkos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: “Polish American Fraternals and Their Histories: A Neglected Subject”
Comment: Joseph Wieczerzak, The Polish Review
1:00-3:00 pm Palmer House Parlor C SESSION SEVEN: POLES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS: INTERETHNIC RELATIONS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
Chair: Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
Dorota Praszalowicz, Jagiellonian University: “Overseas Chain Migration from Prussian Poland and Galicia, 1850-1914: Poles, Germans, Ruthenians, and Jews on the Move”
Tobias Brinkman, University of Leipzig: “‘Germans’ vs. ‘Poles’ in Nineteenth-Century America as an Inner-Jewish Conflict: Established vs. Outsiders?”
Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College, Chicago: “The Murder of Alvin Palmer: Polish Americans, Assimilation, Juvenile Delinquency, and Racial Violence in 1950s Chicago”
Comment: John Radzilowski, University of Minnesota
3:30-5:30 pm Palmer House Parlor C SESSION EIGHT: POPE JOHN PAUL II AND HIS IMPACT ON AMERICA AND POLONIA
Chair: James S. Pula, Utica College of Syracuse University
John Radzilowski, University of Minnesota: “Polonia’s Reaction to the Pope’s Election”
Joseph Wieczerzak, Polish National Catholic Church Commission on History and Archives: “John Paul II and the Current State of Catholic/Polish National Catholic Church Dialogue”
John Hittinger, St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University: “The Pope’s Impact on the Study of Philosophy”
Comment: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Rev. Raymond Gawronski, Marquette University
6:00-9:00 POLISH MUSEUM OF AMERICA, 984 N. MILWAUKEE AVE., ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER
Presiding: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Presidential Address: Donald Pienkos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: “PAHA and the Study of the Polish American Experience: A Brief and Tentative Reconnaisance”
Presentation of PAHA awards.
