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Gloomy or Glam? New Polish Cinema and Photography

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 @ 7:00 PM

Polish cinema is often seen as dark, cryptic, and often depressing with its focus on history. Yet, Martin Scorsese says, “Humour and tragedy are very close in Polish cinema”. New Polish cinema is becoming transnational and liberated, especially after the political transformation of 1989 and, more recently, the 2005 law regulating the film industry. What […]
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The Art of Losing: Polish Poetry and Translation

May 18, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

How do we explain the remarkable international prestige achieved by Polish poetry in the last half-century? Why did the Russian Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky learn Polish in order to read what he called “the most extraordinary poetry” of the twentieth century in the original? What would American poets and critics do without Czesław Miłosz and […]
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Exploring Polish-Jewish Relations

February 15, 2017 @ 6:30PM

Join us for a presentation and panel discussion featuring Consul General of Poland Mariusz Brymora and Lila Cohen, Director of the American Jewish Committee Seattle. The speakers will discuss a historical context of Polish-Jewish relations, the Holocaust, and recent Jewish culture revival in Poland. The event will be followed by an official opening of the […]

Mission

Bridging Cultures through Education about Poland by sharing Polish intellectual, scientific, and artistic accomplishments.

Vision

The vision of the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee is to create a leading West Coast Polish Studies Center at the University of Washington. In pursuit of this goal, we have established an Endowment Fund, we sponsor a Distinguished Speakers Series of lectures, provide student scholarships, attract visiting scholars to the UW, and build partnerships with community organizations in the Pacific Northwest.