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Shortly after returning from our Eighth World Congress in Białystok, I began to look at the first draft of a commemorative album devoted to PIASA’s first eighty years. Most readers of this newsletter are broadly familiar with PIASA’s founding “in America,” but documents retrieved from our archives to illustrate this album reveal some interesting details, … Read more
Congratulatory Letter from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Piotr Gliński on the 80th anniversary of the establishment of The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences in America.
The acclaimed Polish quartet Trupa Trupa have released a new album B FLAT A, their most epic and visceral statement to date. With it Trupa Trupa look to confront evil; exploring, in singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s words, “the wasteland of human nature where hatred and genocide are not just distant reverberations of Central European history but … Read more
Online registration is now open to participants in PIASA’s 8th World Congress at the University of Bialystok. The differentiated fee structure reflects two options for in-person or virtual participation, and discounted rates for students and accompanying spouse and partners. Early registration ends on May 15, after which separate rates apply for late registration and on-site … Read more
In recognition of Women’s History Month, PIASA wishes to draw the attention of its members and friends to the recently published volume edited by John Bukowczyk, Through Words and Deeds: Polish and Polish American Women in History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021). For more information, please click https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=43yqd5ws9780252086236.
I set my alarm early for February 24 as I prepared to embark on a long road trip from my home in Franklin, Tennessee, to a conference in Richmond, Virginia. After throwing a few last items together, I did a quick check of the news on my iPhone to see if anything had changed in … Read more
The March 2022 issue of The Polish Review (vol. 67, no. 1), guest-edited by Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), is the first collection in English of essays about the work of poet Anna Frajlich. Frajlich fled Poland in 1969, making her home in New York City, where she taught at Columbia University for over … Read more
The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA) announced today that PIASA will donate $5,000 to Unicef to assist that organization’s efforts on behalf of Ukrainian refugees in Poland. PIASA is making this grant to demonstrate that we “are unequivocally with the Ukrainian people in this time of crisis. Poles and Polish Americans … Read more
