POLISH STUDIES ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE

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Mighty Son of Poland: Zbyszko, Polish Americans and Sport in the 20th Century

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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Hospital of the Transfiguration

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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75th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program

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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WASHINGTON GIVES

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!

KATARZYNA KOBRO COMPOSING SPACE

Prof. Marek Wieczorek Saturday, 24 April, 2021 at 11AM (PT) on ZOOM ABOUT THE LECTURE: Between 1925 and 1933, Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro made a series of groundbreaking abstract Spatial Compositions. ‘As it becomes united with space,’ she wrote about these works, ‘the new sculpture should be its most condensed and essential part.’ In this…
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Fr. Jan of the Ladybug: A story of Fr. Jan Twardowski

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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Tuesday Lunch-and-Learn Series

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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Interhuman History: How Magdalena Grzebałkowska Rewrites the Aftermath of World War II in Poland 1945: War and Peace

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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Martha Golubiec (1939 – 2021)

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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Women and the Writing of Polish Jewish History Before the Holocaust

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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BOOK TALK Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011

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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POLISH 404 B: Second-Year Polish

Reinforces basic grasp of the language and enlarges vocabulary and command of grammatical patterns beyond the sentence level. Pays special attention to oral communication, listening comprehension, and writing. Helps enable students to move from Novice High to Intermediate Mid/High-level on the ACTFL Proficiency Scale. More info

From Ours to Alien: The Journey of Polish OBCY

Lecture by Prof. Katarzyna Dziwirek September 9, 2020 at 7:00PM on ZOOM ZOOM registration required(After registration, an event link will be sent) The presentation will trace the history of the Polish word obcy, whose original meaning ofcommon, joint, mutual, societal, collective, communal, or public, has changed over time to mean alien, foreign, or strange, while…
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Forging a New Polish Jewish Woman: The Jewish Girls’ Vocational School of Lwów (Lviv)

Lecture by Sarah Zarrow, PhD Forging a New Polish Jewish Woman: The Jewish Girls’ Vocational School of Lwów (Lviv) July 14, 2020 at 7:00 PM Registration required on ZOOM After registration, a link will be sent In the wake of the First World War, civic activist Cecylja Klaftenowa founded the Jewish Girls’ Vocational School in…
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Warsaw – Heritage, Tradition, and Urban Myths with a (very) Modern Twist a lecture by Justyna Zych, Ph.D.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:00 PM on ZOOM sign in to Zoom to attend the lecture Do you know which star of the world literature lives in an unbelievably tiny, 48-inch-wide, apartment in Warsaw? Have you heard that Warsaw has its own Mordor? Are you able to imagine a vegan version of a traditional…
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A Window to Contemporary Polish History and Culture (POL 320, SLN 18818)

Instructor: Dr. Justyna Zych, Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Polonicum Centre of Polish Language & Culture for Foreigners, University of Warsaw Time/place: T Th 11:30am – 1:20pm; Savery Hall, Room 155 Course description: What stories does a city tell? As the capital of Poland, Warsaw accumulates many important topics, motifs, and symbols of Polish culture. On…
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Spring 2020 POLISH 403

POLISH 403 First – Year Polish MTWTHF 10:30-11:20 at Savery, Room 167 Instructor: Krystyna Untersteiner Polish 403 is the third class in a three quarter course sequence of first year (beginning) Polish. Students should be familiar with the material covered in Polish 401 and 402 (first 15 chapters). After the whole year’s sequence, the students…
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Fall Bazaar

Enjoy traditional Polish food: pierogi, sausage, cabbage rolls, pickle soup, borsch, and Polish beer. Finish your dinner with homemade desserts and pastries. After the culinary feast, go upstairs where you will find Polish crystal, Bolesławiec pottery, amber and silver jewelry, crafts, books, as well as information about Polish organizations in the Seattle area. This is…
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James Felak on “Evolution and Revolution in the Year of Wonders: The Fall of Communism in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in 1989”

On January 23, 2020, University of Washington history Professor James Felak will discuss the collapse of Communist regimes in the “northern tier” of East Central Europe during the revolutionary year of 1989. The lecture will recount the dramatic events of that time, highlight the key personalities involved, and present some important insights bequeathed to us by…
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Polish 401

FALL QUARTER POLISH 401

Call for Family Photos: Polish Festival Seattle Community Exhibit

At this year’s Polish Festival Seattle, we would like to celebrate members of our Polish community in a photo collage project. We are asking any and all people of Polish heritage to provide photos of themselves or family members currently living or have lived in the Pacific Northwest. You may have just moved here, or…
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POLISH FESTIVAL SEATTLE

July 13, 2019 Polish Festival Seattle website To volunteer at the Festival, sign up here

Pierogi Fest

Additional parking at Mt. Zion Baptist Church gravel lot at 19th Ave. & E Madison Str.

Meet the Author Dominika Wrozynski

May 29, 2019 at 7:00PM at Polish Cultural Center Dominika Wrozynski, an Assistant Professor of English at the Manhattan College in New York, will be reading from her poetry collection American Accent published in 2018. Book signing to follow. Free admission About the author. About the book.

EXHIBIT: Code Name Inka: a Schoolgirl in the Polish Resistance, 1944-1946. Condemned, Suppressed, Unbroken, Rediscovered

Allen Library UW Campus May 3-31, 2019 UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee and UW Libraries present an exhibition about Danuta Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka), a Polish national hero. She was a nurse in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army, which she joined in late 1943 or early…
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