People PIASA remembers

People PIASA remembers

In memory of Dr. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz We regret to inform our members that Dr. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz passed away after a long illness on February 28, 2021. He was a world-renowned biologist, specializing in fundamental cancer research, was associated with New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, served as a distinguished professor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center … Read more

2020 PIASA Awards Announcements

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is pleased to announce its 2020 award recipients: The Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award for best article published in The Polish Review in 2019: Dr. Anna Krakus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, for “Death is Merely a Comma: … Read more

Bialystok 2021 Conference Cancellation Announcements

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) regrets that, given the on-going restrictions on travel and gatherings occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, it must reschedule its World Congress of Polish Studies in Białystok, Poland, originally planned for June 10-13, 2021.  A new call for papers and complete panels will be issued in the … Read more

Interview with Anna Frajlich

Anna Frajlich Book Talk

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) on January 27, 2021 at 12:00 noon for an interview with Anna Frajlich, author of The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays (Academic Studies Press, 2020) and recipient of PIASA’s 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award. The interview about the critical prose … Read more

Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1 January 2021

Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1

Greetings! We are pleased to present to you the first quarterly issue of the new PIASA Newsletter. At a time when we are unable to network with each other in person, it’s important to provide our members and friends an opportunity to keep abreast of important events in the life of the Institute and happenings … Read more

“Maria Sklodowska Curie – A Pioneer for Women in Science?”

Maria Sklodowska-Curie

The Kosciuszko Foundation has the pleasure of inviting you to: “Maria Sklodowska Curie – A Pioneer for Women in Science?” For more than 100 years, Maria Sklodowska Curie has been inspiring generations of scientists around the world. “Madame Curie” (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only … Read more

PIASA Scientific Awards Presentation and a Lecture by Jack Szostak, Ph.D.

KF ONLINE PROGRAMS PIASA Scientific Awards Presentation and a Lecture by Jack Szostak, Ph.D.

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences cordially invites you to register for a virtual presentation on October 29 at 4:00 p.m. (EST) of its Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award to Professor Jack Szostak and its Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award to Dr. Halina Zyczynski. The event, co-sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation, will also feature … Read more

Digitalization of Karol Popiel and Oskar Halecki’s collections

Karol Popiel collections

Work continues on digitalization of Karol Popiel and Oskar Halecki’s collections with the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Trwają prace nad digitalizacją zbiorów Karola Popiela i Oskara Haleckiego przy wsparciu Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego

8th World Congress to be held at the University of Białystok

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America is pleased to invite proposals for its 8th World Congress to be held at the University of Białystok, Poland, June 10-13, 2021 Proposals are solicited for complete sessions or individual papers in any of the disciplines in the liberal arts, sciences, or business/economics. The general theme … Read more

The Polish Review

Thr Polish Review 65

Our new issue of The Polish Review has already been shipped and you should have received it by now. Happy reading