PAHA - 2007 Conference Program


2007 Annual Meeting Program 2007 Conference Registration & Banquet Forms Polish American Historical Association The PAHA registration desk will be located in the hallway outside the Hyatt’s Spring Room. Thursday, January 4 3:00-4:30 p.m. Hyatt, Lenox Room Polish-American Encyclopedia Editorial Board Meeting 4:30-6:30 p.m. Hyatt, Inman Room. PAHA Board Meeting 6:30-7:00 p.m. Hyatt, Inaman Room. PAHA Business Meeting Friday, January 5 9:00–9:30 a.m. Registration 9:30-11:30 a.m. Hyatt, Spring Room. Session 1, joint with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Ethnic Historical Associations at the Crossroads? Chairs: Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University Suzanne Sinke, Florida State University Panel: Ronald Bayor, Georgia Institute of Technology and Immigration and Ethnic History Society Suellen Cheng, El Pueblo Historical Monument and Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Hasia Diner, New York University and American Jewish Historical Society Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University and Polish American Historical Association Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and American Italian Historical Association Suzanne Sinke, Florida State University and the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies 2:00–2:30 p.m. Registration 2:30-4:30 p.m. Hyatt, Spring Room. Session 2. Contemporary Polonia Chair: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University Papers: From Polish Immigrants to Polish Americans: World War I and the Assimilation of the Poles of Middletown, Connecticut Romuald Byczkiewicz, Central Connecticut State University The Polish Community of Worcester, Massachusetts Barbara Proko, independent scholar The Polish Hill Community, Oil City, Pennsylvania Marge Salewic, independent scholar Stanley Szalewicz, Westminster Choir College of Rider University Class and Ethnic Residential Concentrations of Poles and Puerto Ricans in New Britain, Connecticut,1990-2000 Mary Patrice Erdmans Comments: The Audience. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Hyatt, Techwood Room. Session 3. The Relationship between Polish-American Poetry and Polish-American Culture Chairs: John Guzlowski, Eastern Illinois University Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University Panel: Phil Boiarski, Public School System, Columbus, Ohio Linda Nemec Foster, Contemporary Writers Series, Aquinas College – Grand Rapids, Michigan John Guzlowski, Eastern Illinois University Leonard Kress, Owens College, Toledo, Ohio Mark Pawlak, University of Massachusetts, Boston John Surowiecki, Freelance Writer Margaret Szumowski, Springfield Technical Community College, Massachusetts Cecilia Woloch, independent scholar Saturday, January 6 8:30–9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00-11:00 a.m. Hyatt, Spring Room. Session 4. A Century of the Polish-American Experience Chair: James S. Pula, Purdue University North Central Papers: General Krzyzanowski: A 120-Year Retrospective James S. Pula Polish Miners in Pennsylvania and the Rurh Area, 1890-1930 Pien Versteegh, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands Federalism as a Platform of Polish-American Cross-Fertilization of Thought during and after World War II Slawomir Lukasiewicz, Institute of National Remembrance, Lublin Branch, Poland The Polish-American Reaction to Civil Rights in the Papers of Henry W. Maier Stephen M. Leahy, University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley. Comment: The Audience 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Hyatt, Spring Room. Session 5. Polonia, the United States, and the Second Republic Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Papers: A Polish Foreign Minister's Secret “Rules” for Managing U.S.-Polish Relations, 1925 Neal Pease “Philadelphia Cowboy:” John B. Stetson Jr. in Warsaw Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University "Propaganda against Poland:” Warsaw and the American Film Industry in the Interwar Era M. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University Polish 1 Tank Regiment in France and in Poland, 1919-20 Witold J. Lawrynowicz, Polish Militaria Collectors Association, New York Comment: The Audience 2:00–2:30 p.m. Registration 2:30-4:30 p.m. Hyatt, Spring Room. Session 6. Polish-American Ethnicity and Culture Chair: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College Chicago Papers: Ferocious Enemies and Noble Heroes: Images of “Us” and “Them” in the Polish-American Textbooks until 1930 Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Postmodern Polishness: Music, Ethnicity and Globalization Ann Hetzel Gunkel The Life and Times of Agnieszka Ksiezarczyk in New York City, 1896-1928: Historical, Political, and Cultural Contextual Factors Ann M. Gurnack, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Comment: The Audience

2007 Annual Meeting Program