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February 7, 2023; 5:00-6:15PM (PDT) on ZOOM Zoom Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92453723595 This talk locates key elements of the politics and aesthetics of Latin American Third Cinema in anti-colonial reportage films made in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. The point is not to posit an alternative origin of a form of militant cinema first conceptualized by…
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February 21, 2023; 5:00-6:15PM (PDT) on ZOOM Zoom Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92024355732 This talk will examine what contemporary regionalist discourse reveals about the Polish national imagination in the early 21st century by tracing examples of divergent narratives across language, literature, and culture. Dr. Borowski will show how these ideas actively challenge deeply rooted visions of culture, identity,…
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January 18, 2023 at 7:00PM  Thomson Hall, Room 101 on the UW Campus Visitor parking info Lecture is free and open to the public             Masks and social distancing recommended Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the…
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January 20, 2023  at 6:30PM   Polish Cultural Center -Dom Polski, 1714 18th Ave in Seattle The event is free and open to the public “Fueled by a brilliant mind and a fierce love, Marie  Curie teams up with husband Pierre on a scientific journey that will alter the course of history.” – Netflix Radioactive  (2019)…
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January 11 – March 10, 2023, Suzzallo Library, Ground Floor, on the UW CampusExhibit is free and open to the publicIn celebration of the centennial of Maria Curie’s first visit to the United States in 1921, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland has created an exhibit “The Lady of Radium: The Life of Maria…
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In support of our Ukrainian neighbors, the Seattle Polish Foundation (SPF) is launching a fundraising campaign: Polish Community Support for Ukraine. All contributions will be donated to Polish Humanitarian Action (Polska Akcja Humanitarna, PAH) in order to support people affected by the war in Ukraine and refugees arriving in Poland.   To donate, go to…
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 Maria Kott Endowed Professorship of Polish Studies at the University of Washington has been established!  We are grateful to all the donors who, over the years, contributed to the Endowment Fund, which reached $362,000 this year. Above all, we thank Ryszard Kott who matched the existing funds up to  $700,000 and pledged to provide additional…
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A lecture by Eric Karpeles February 23, 2022 at 7:00 PM (PT) on ZOOM Józef Czapski (1896-1993) witnessed the tumult of twentieth-century Europe first-hand, as a military officer, art and literary critic, disciplined chronicler of his own experiences, and above all, as a painter skilled at isolating the subtle significance of the everyday. At a…
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 6:00PM at the Polish Cultural Center- Dom Polski 1714 18th Ave, Seattle The concert is part of an international tour of the Polish Chamber Musicians’ Association entitled “Music of Polish-Jewish Composers,” visiting Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Paso Robles, and New York from October until December 2021. Performers appearing in…
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A lecture by Prof. Grażyna J. Kozaczka November 17, 2021 at 6:30PM (PT) on ZOOM ABOUT THE LECTURE: This talk, Polish American Women: Writing Her Self, will apply a literary lens to a discussion of identity/self of immigrant and ethnic women. What is it that women fiction writers reveal to us about their Polish American…
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Exhibit in The Allen Library North Lobby on the UW Seattle main campus October 11 – November 19, 2021 Monday through Friday 9:00AM– 5:00PM On the 100th anniversary of Stanisław Lem’s birth, the Seattle Gdynia Sister City Association, the producer of Seattle Polish Film Festival, and the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee, in collaboration with…
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For more information, go to SPFF Website

A lecture by Prof. Neal Pease October 13, 2021 at 7PM (PT) on ZOOM ABOUT THE LECTURE: Sport has played a significant role in the history of the Polish diaspora in the United States, serving both as an element of ethnic pride, and as an indicator of the acculturation of Polish immigrants and their descendants…
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October 6, 2021 at 7:30PM (PT) on ZOOM In celebration of the Year of Stanisław Lem, Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association and UW PSEC announce a showing of Hospital of the Transfiguration ( in Polish: Szpital Przemienienia) is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s book of the same name. The 1979 film directed by Edward Żebrowski tells…
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September 26, 2021 at 11:00AM (PT) on ZOOM https://washington.zoom.us/j/98784786867 In 2021, the Fulbright Program is celebrating its 75th anniversary (in Poland, the Program has been present for 62 years). Congratulations! University of Washington Polish Studies Endowment Committee is joining this celebration by inviting Justyna Budzik, Ph.D. and Jacek Mikołajczyk, Ph.D., Fulbright Slavic Awardees, to talk…
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Make an IMPACT! Support UW PSEC and other Polish Community’s goals and initiatives through GiveBIG, biggest day of giving of the year. THANK YOU! DZIĘKUJEMY!

Anna Cholewinska, March 24, 2021 at 7:30 PM (PT) on ZOOM ABOUT THE LECTURE: Jan Twardowski (1915-2006) was a Roman Catholic priest and a poet. Even though he first published his poems in the 1930s, he became widely known only in the 1990s. His work was addressed to adults and to children.  The opening line…
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Holocaust Center for Humanity invites to a weekly Lunch-and-Learn Series, every Tuesday 12:00PM – 1:00PM (Pacific Time) on ZOOM. The Series feature children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, notable speakers on timely issues, and historical experts. These programs aim to present perspectives and voices that challenge and inspire people to confront bigotry, racism, and indifference,…
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Prof. Beth Holmgren February 17, 2021 at 6:00PM (PT) on ZOOM https://washington.zoom.us/j/95900652747 About the lecture: Magdalena Grzebałkowska, an award-winning author of Polish reportaż — a fact-based genre in which writers exercise substantial creative license in their subject choices, plotting, style, and self-portrayal — has produced a 21st-century War and Peace strikingly different from and deliberately more…
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On January 22, 2021, we lost our beloved friend Martha Golubiec. Martha has been not only a friend to many of us, but also a pillar of our Polish community.  She promoted Polish history, culture, language, and traditions, contributing greatly to the Pacific Northwest’s ethnic landscape.   Among countless achievements, Martha was a co-founder of the…
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Prof. Natalia Aleksiun-Madrzak November 18, 2020 at 7:00 PM ZOOM registration required (after registration, an event link will be sent) ABOUT THE LECTURE: born in 1912 in Łódź, Sara Ajzensztejn belonged to a cohort of Polish Jewish women who enrolled at Polish universities to study the history of their own community: Polish Jewry. She wrote…
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Maria Rewakowicz, Ph.D. October 19, 2020 at 3:30PM On line via ZOOM In her award-winning book, Maria G. Rewakowicz examines how the dilemmas of Ukrainian identity manifest themselves in the literature of post-independence Ukraine. It asks how various identities — national, territorial, ethnolinguistic, class and gender — are reflected in literary works of the most…
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