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tomasz-lysak

From Newsreel to Posttraumatic films – Classic Documentaries about Auschwitz-Birkenau – a lecture by Tomasz Lysak, PhD

November 15, 2016 @ 7:00 PM

After WWII there was a significant shift in the visual principles of rendering the operations of Auschwitz-Birkenau, its history and its moral significance. Soviet and Polish filmmakers established the cinematographic conventions of Holocaust documentaries which contributed to the conceptualization of concentration camps and industrial genocide as modernist events. The films in question span the period […]
Agata Zubel

Are Lyrics the Music Yet?

October 25th, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

Agata Zubel, a Polish composer and singer, has been hailed by The New York Times as an important new voice in contemporary music. The artist’s talk will be dedicated to her own compositions with a focus on their vocal aspects. On October 28, 2016, Ms. Zubel will perform her composition Chapter 13 at the Benaroya […]
Santa Rosa

SANTA ROSA: ODYSSEY IN THE RHYTHM OF MARIACHI, a documentary

Friday, May 6, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

The documentary directed by Sławomir Grünberg relates a story of over 1400 Polish refugees freed from the WWII Soviet camps, including hundreds of orphans, who found a friendly home in Santa Rosa, Mexico from 1943 to 1946. Mr. Grünberg is a Polish-born American documentary film maker and will be present at the screening. Also present, […]

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 Polish Speakers Series, provide student scholarships, attract visiting scholars to the UW, and build partnerships with community organizations in the Pacific Northwest.