2005 Annual Meeting Program

Polish American Historical Association
Seattle Washington, January 7-8, 2005
All meetings and sessions are held in the Seattle Convention Center

Friday, January 7
9:00–11:00 A.M. Executive Committee and Council Meeting, Room 208.

11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Annual Business Meeting, Room 208.

11:00–2:30 P.M. Registration, outside Room 213.

2:30–4:30 P.M. Session 1. Polish Woman: Memories and Realities, Room 213.

Chair: Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin, Los Angeles Public Library
Papers: Reluctant Heroines of the Solidarity Revolution
Shana Penn, Mills College Women's Leadership Institute
Fourth-Generation Polish American Women: Gendered Ethnicity and Kinship Formation,
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Days after Death, from Daughter of Polonia
Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin
Romance and Reality of the Experience of an “Educational Agent” for Ameryka-echo
Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Comment: The Audience

Saturday, January 8

9:00 9:30 A.M. AND 2:00-2:30 P.M. Registration, outside Room 302.

9:30–11:30 A.M. Session 2. Polonian Presentation of Self, Room 302.

Chair: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College
Papers: The New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community, Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College Chicago
Changing Brooklyn Polonia
Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Comment: The Audience

2:30–4:30 P.M. Session 3. Polonian Relations with Non-Polonians, Room 302.
Chair: Mary Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Papers: A Call to Prayer in Hamtramck
Karen Majewski, Orchard Lake Schools
Using Geographical Information Systems to Examine the Attitudes toward Open Housing in Milwaukee, 1966–70
Stephen M. Leahy, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley
American Outlook on Two Attempts to Establish Democracy in Poland in 1947 and 1989–90
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
The Great Cemetery War: The Bishop of Syracuse versus the Societies of St. Stanislaus and St. Casimer
James Pula, Purdue University North Central
Comment: The Audience

6:30–8:30 P.M Awards Banquet Polish Hall of Seattle
Presidential Address, Mary Erdmans
Slide Show Presentation by Tom Podl, Colors of Identity
Presentation of Awards