East Central European Center

Academics: Regional Studies

Polish Studies

 

Fall 2009 Events

 

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Please join the Barnard/Columbia Polish Society for Wigilia (Vigil), a festive Christmas Eve dinner organized in cooperation
with the Columbia Catholic Undergraduates and the Slavic Department at Barnard.

During the celebratory Wigilia dinner we will serve customary Polish Christmas dishes and delicious pastries. The entertainment will include a multi-media presentation of Polish landscapes and their Christmas traditions, as well as a rich musical background of famous Polish Christmas Carols. In the spirit of cross-cultural community among the students of Barnard and Columbia, the event is free to students of all religious and ethnic affiliations. For organizational reasons, we have to ask that participants RSVP by email in advance to Gosia Pawlak at
mp2574@barnard.edu.

Saturday, December 5, 2009, 7 pm,

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall.

After the Dinner, there will be a follow-up event organized by Columbia
Catholic Ministry, an Advent Vigil Night of Prayer at 9 pm. All Dinner
participants are encouraged to attend. During the Vigil, Columbia Catholic
Ministry will be meditating on biblical passages on the Coming of the
Messiah and singing together before the Blessed Sacrament. The event will
continue past midnight and will end with a mass that will fulfill the Sunday

obligation. Please join them for this special night of prayer to celebrate the

season of Advent.

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International Workshop on Lysenkoism

With a presentation on “Lysenkoism in Poland” by William deJong-Lambert, Bronx Community College, CUNY, and the Harriman Institute

More details may be found here.

The workshop program may be found here.

Friday, December 4, 2009, CUNY Graduate Center

Saturday, December 5, Columbia University

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"Katyn,", directed by Andrzej Wajda (2007)

Introduced by Professor Istvan Deak

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:30pm:

702 Hamilton

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"Man of Marble," directed by Andrzej Wajda (1977)

Introduced by John S. Micgiel

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7:30pm

702 Hamilton

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A Teacher Training Workshop on Political, Security and Economic Challenges Facing the Balkans, East Central Europe, and Russia 

With a presentation on Poland by Dr. John S. Micgiel

Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 9 am – 3 pm

1512 International Affairs Building, 15th Floor

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New York State Polish Regents Exam

October 25, 2009, 11 am through 3 pm

403, 404, 411 & 413 International Affairs Building

Organized by the Educational Commission of the Polish American Congress, the Polish Supplemental Schools Council, and Columbia's East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Center

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The Remarkable State of the Polish Economy
Prof. Patrycja Grzelonska (Yeshiva University)

October 14, 2009 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko

    and the Age of Revolution

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12-1:30 pm

1219 International Affairs Building

Alex Storozynski, The Kosciuszko Foundation

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Wonder and Knowledge: A conference on the origin of the universe in science and philosophy and the role of wonder in scientific discovery.

Speakers: Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete. Theologian, author, columnist
Dr. Marco Bersanelli. Prof.of Astrophysics, University of Milan, author of From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder that Inspired the Greatest Scientists of All Time: In Their Own Words, Templeton Press
Fr. Michael HELLER-Prof. of Philosophy, PontificalAcad. of Theology, Krakow 2008 Templeton Prize winner

September 30, 2009, 8:00 pm

Earl Hall Auditorium, Columbia University Main Campus

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The EU’s Eastern Partnership

Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12-1:30 pm

1219 International Affairs Building

Marek Cichocki, European Center, Natolin

 

Spring 2009 Highlights

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Polish Language Certification Exam

Saturday-Sunday , May 2-3, 2009

Sponsored by the Polish State Commission for Polish Language, the Polish Supplementary School Council of America, and the East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Center at Columbia. For more information: www.centralapolskichszkol.org, or call 516-816-4417.

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Methodological Solutions and Didactic Tools Available for Teaching Contemporary Polish History.  Methodology Workshop for Polish Supplemental School Teachers.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Lukasz Michalski (Institute for National Remembrance, Warsaw).

Polish Slavic Federal Credit Union, 100 McGuiness Blvd, Brooklyn, NY.  1pm.  Cosponsored by the Polish Studies Program and the East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Center.

For more information: www.centralapolskichszkol.org, or call 516-816-4417.

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A Notorious Diariast: Bronislaw Malinowski and his "Sisters"

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

709 Hamilton Hall

Grazyna Kubica, Professor at the Jagiellonian University

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A Light in the Darkness: A Meeting with the Righteous Among Nations"

A discussion with Tadeusz Stankiewicz, Jozef Walaszczyk, Anna Stupnicka-Bando, Irineusz Rajchowski, Alicja Schnepf -- Polish Gentiles who helped Jews survive the Holocaust -- and two Jewish Holocaust survivors, Barbara Gora and Krystyna Budnicka.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Kraft Center, 606 West 115th St.

Sponsored by the Columbia Catholic Ministry, Columbia/Barnard Hillel, and the Office of the Univversity Chaplain

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The Global Financial Crisis and Its Implications: An East-Central European Perspective

Wednesday ,March 4, 2009

1219 IAB, 12-1:30 pm

Jan Winiecki, Professor and Chair of International Economics and European Studies, Rzeszow University of Information, Technology and Management; Professor, Department of International Studies, Tischner School of European Studies, Krakow

Co-sponsored by the Economics Department

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"Persona Non Grata," and " Year of the Quiet Sun" A screening with Director Krzysztof Zanussi

February 18-19, 2009

501 Schermerhorn Hall and 511 Dodge Hall

Cosponsored by the Polish Studies Program, teh Ukrainian Film Club, the East CEntral European Center, the Harriman Institute, and the Film Division of the School of the Arts

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The Solidarnosc Legacy in contemporary Poland

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12-1:30 pm

1219 International affairs Building

Professor Zdzislaw Krasnodebski

University of Bremen and Columbia University

Sponsored by The East Central European Center and the Polish Studies Program

 

Fall 2008 Highlights

Study in Poland Information Session

September 23, 11a.m. - 1p.m.
Elliot Hall Parlor, Elliot Hall, 49 Claremont Avenue

Please join the members of the Columbia Polish Student Society and students from all over New York City to find out about opportunities to study at the University of Wroclaw.

With Professor Professor Krzysztof Nowotka from the University of Wroclaw.

For more Information on Wroclaw University, please visit:
international.uni.wroc.pl

 

Poland 2009: 10 Years in NATO, 5 Years in the EU, Lessons from Georgia

September 25, 11 a.m.
1501 IAB

With Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland.
International Herald Tribune article

 

New York State Polish Regents Exam

October 24, 2008,   11am- 3 pm

Fourth Floor, International Affairs Building

Cosponsored b the Polish Supplementary School Council of America, and the East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Center at Columbia

For more information: www.centralapolskichszkol.org, or call 516-816-4417.

 

Spring 2008 Highlights

Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future

February 12, 7 –9 p.m.
Ella Weed Room(campus map) 2nd floor, Milbank Hall, Barnard College
Please enter the campus at the gate on Broadway at 117th Street and follow the signs north toward Milbank Hall.

With Robert Cherry, Koppelman Professor of Economics, Brooklyn College
Co-sponsored by the Polish Studies Program, Columbia and Barnard Polish Student Society and the East Central European Center
Registration: Please RSVP as soon as possible to Monika Urbanowicz at mu2113@columbia.edu

Poland in America's Crooked Mirror: The Case of Fear

February 18, 4 –6 p.m.
1501 IAB

With Professor Marek Chodakiewicz, Institute of World Politics, Washington and autor of  "After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War Two".
Co-sponsored by the Polish Studies Program and the Polish Society of  Columbia

The Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Development of Capital Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

February 20, 6 p.m.
Feldberg Lounge, Warren Hall

With Ludwik Sobolewski LLD (President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange)
Please click here to RSVP

Energy Security Strategy for Central Europe

February 21-22, Conference Agenda
1501 IAB

Participants:

Minister Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch, EU coordinator for Connections to Off-shore Wind in the Baltic and North Sea Areas and former State Secretary in Germany's Ministry of Economics

Ambassador Vaclav Bartuska, Prague, Czech Republic, Special Envoy for Energy Security in the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Matthew Bryza, Washington.DC, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the U.S. Department of State

Berris Ekinci, Head of Section of the Energy Department, Deputy Directorate General for Energy, Water and Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey

Pawel Konzal, Brussels, Belgium, Director of the Representative Office to the EU of the Polish Oil and Gas Company

Dr. John S. Micgiel, Director, East Central European Center, Columbia University

Dr. Piotr Naimski, Nowy Sacz, Poland, Vice Rector of the National Louis University in Nowy Sacz, Poland, former Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economy, Poland

Dr Anita Orban, Budapest, Hungary, Executive Senior Vice President of the International Centre for Democratic Transition
Minister Bohdan Sokolovski, Kiev, Ukraine, President Yushchenko's Representative for Energy

Sponsored by Columbia University's Polish Studies Program and The Higher School of Business, National Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland

Watch the video of this event:
February 21: Strategy

February 22: Strategy

 

Chopin Piano Recital

April 2, 7 p.m.
Kreuger Hall, 405 Millbank Hall (Barnard College, Columbia University at 117th & Broadway)

With Nimrod David Pfeffer: first prize winner of the Polish Student Society's International Piano Competition in December of 2007.

Cosponsored by the Columbia University Polish Student Society and the East Central European Center

Silk against Bullets: The Birth of Modern Soft Armor

April 17, 6 p.m.
Room 404, Barnard Hall

With Professor Slawomir Lotysz, Ph.D. (Charles C. Price Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Professor at the University of Zielona Gora, Poland.)

Cosponsored by the Columbia University Polish Student Society and the East Central European Center

 

Readings by Magdalena Tulli

April 29, 6:30 p.m.
Center for Architecture's reading series, 536 LaGuardia Place New York NY 10012. Tel. 212-683-0023                  

April 30, 3 p.m.
Columbia University, 310 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue
Please RSVP by April 29 to mu2113@columbia.edu

A rare opportunity to hear one of Europe’s most original new writers reading from her work. Magdalena Tulli is the author of Dreams and Stones (Sny i kamienie), In Red (W czerwieni), Moving Parts (Tryby), and Flaw (Skaza). Dreams and Stones won the prestigious Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1995, Moving Parts was nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Flaw was a finalist for the 2007 Nike prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award.

Cosponsored by Archipelego Books, the Polish Cultural institute, the Center for Architecture and Columbia University Polish Student Society

 

Polish Certification Exam

May 3 & 4,
International Affairs Building

Part 1: Saturday May 3rd: 10a.m. to 1p.m. Room 410 IAB
Part 2: Saturday May 3rd: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Rooms 1101, 901 & 902 IAB

Part 3: Sunday May 4th: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rooms 1101, 901 & 902 IAB

Please contact Dorota Andraka at Andraka@aol.com

Fall 2007 Highlights

Dealing with the Past in East-Central Europe
December 2-3, 2007
An international conference with: Jon Elster (Columbia University), Marek Kornat (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Zdislaw Krasnobebski (University of Bremen), Pawel Machcewisz (University of Torun), John Micgiel (Columbia University), Piotr Naimski (Former Vice-Minister for Economics, Poland and Higher School of Business, National-Louis University, Nowy Sacz), Lavinia Stan (Concordia University, Montreal), Rafal Stobiecki (University of Lodz), Oldrich Tuma (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague), Helga Welsh (Wake Forrest University), Bronislaw Wildstein (Rzeczpospolita)and Artur Wolek (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw).

Watch the video of this event:
Welcome and Keynote speech: John S. Micgiel and Jon Elster

Lustration in Poland: Artur Woltek, Bronislaw Wildstein, Piotr Naimski
The Politics of History and How Central Europe Deals with its Past:
Part 1: Czech Republic, Germany & Romania: Question and Answer Session
Part 2: Poland

With generous funding from the Semper Polonia Foundation, Warsaw and The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City
Co-sponsored by the East Central European Center and the Institute for the Study of Europe

A Night Of Chopin: Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition

December 1, 7p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor: 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, Barbard College. 117th & Broadway

Free concert, open to the public. Please RSVP Monika Urbanowicz at mu2113@columbia.edu
Cosponsored by Columbia and Barnard Polish Student Society.

 

Polityka zagraniczna a wizerunek panstwa. O doswiadczeniu II Rzeczypospolitej

November 29, 6p.m.
Pilsudski Institute, 180 Second Avenue, New York

Marek Kornat (Polish Academy of Sciences)

 

I will oppress you with my strange love... The Friendship of Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert: fascination, disillusionment and bitterness.

November 26, 6p.m.
1510 IAB

Andrzej Franaszek (Tygodnik Powszechny). Introduced by Professor Anna Frajlich-Zajac (Columbia University)

 

Igor Newerly's Workshops

November 19, 6p.m.
1510 IAB

Jan Zielinski (University of Fribourg, and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University). Introduced by Professor Anna Frajlich-Zajac (Columbia University)

Polish-American Relations During the Cold War

November 19, 12p.m.
1219 IAB

Professor Jakub Tyskiewicz (Wroclaw University and University of Massachusetts)

 

Spotkanie z Dr. Ewa Kurek , autorka ksiazki "Poza Granicami Solidarnosci. Stosunki Polsko-Zydowskie 1939-45"

November 16, 7.30p.m.
Polsko-Amerykanskie Centrum Kultury, 1-3 Monroe Street, Passaic, New Jersey

A meeting with Ewa Kurek, author of a book on Polish-Jewish relations 1939-1945

Book Release Party for "Astonishments"

November 15, 7p.m.
Labyrinth Books, 536 W.112th Street, New York City

Edited by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon

 

Spotkanie z Dr. Ewa Kurek, autorka ksiazki pt. stosunki polsko-zydowskie 1939-1945

November 15, 6p.m.
Pilsudski Institute, 180 Second Avenue, New York City

A meeting with Ewa Kurek, author of a book on Polish-Jewish relations 1939-1945

 

Spotkanie z Dr. Ewa Kurek, autorka ksiazki "Poza Granicami Solidarnosci. Stosunki Polsko-Zydowskie 1939-45"

November 13, 7p.m.
Kurier Plus, 145 Java Street, Greenpoint

A meeting with Ewa Kurek, author of a book on Polish-Jewish relations 1939-1945

 

Swieto Niepodleglosci. Kilka uwag.

November 11, 3p.m.
Pilsudski Institute, 180 Second Avenue

Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, University of Wroclaw

 

Teach Europe 2007: Contentious Politics - Poland's Place within the EU

November 9, 12.30–1.30p.m.
1501 IAB

Professor Slawomir Józefowicz  (University of Warsaw, Visiting Professor at SUNY-Buffalo)

Polish Language Regents Exams

November 4, 12–4 p.m.
411 and 413 IAB

For more information, contact Ms. Jolanta Szulc at jszulc@aol.com.

Institutional Change After Communism
October 31, 2007
With Leszek Balcerowicz, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Poland. Visiting Fellow of the Watson Institute, Brown University.
Co-sponsored by the East Central European Center and the Institute for the Study of Europe
Watch the video of this event

Od "Kanalu" do "Katynia" - 50 lat polskiej szkoly filmowej. (In Polish)

October 30, 6p.m.
1219 IAB

Maria Kornatowska (State Film, TV and Theater School, Lodz). Introduced by Professor Anna Frajlich-Zajac (Columbia University)

 

Ukraine-EU Relations: Ukraine's Quest for Mature Nation Statehood

October 16-17, 2007
Washington, DC

This annual conference brings together prominent representatives from academia, the private sector and the governments of Ukraine, the United States and Europe, to monitor Ukraine's progress towards fuller integration into the Euro-Atlantic community and stronger bilateral relations with the United States. This year's conference featured the following prominent speakers:
Krzysztof Bobinski (EU-Polska)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Senior Counselor/CSIS)
Jan Bugajski (CSIS)
Igor Chalupec (PKN-Orlen/Fmr. Pres.)
John Micgiel (Columbia University)
Jan Pieklo (PAUCI)
Janusz Reiter (Ambassador of Poland to the US)
For more information

 

Between Dawn and the Wind

October 16, 7 p.m.
CU Bookstore, 2922 Broadway & 115th St.

Poetry Reading and Discussion with the author, Professor Anna Frajlich (Columbia University)

Polonia: Columbia Wants You

October 15, 4–7 p.m.
1501 IAB

An information session on college admission for members of the Polish-American community, cosponsored by the Polish Slavic Federal Credit Union

 

Love and Revolution: The Intellectual History of Marxism in Poland as Lived Experience

October 2, 12 –1.30 p.m.
1219 IAB

With Professor Marci Shore, Yale University

No Simple Victory: Europe at War, 1939-1945

September 24, 1501 IAB, 6 p.m.

Professor Norman Davies discusses his latest book (Viking/Penguin, 2007).

Energy Diversification in Poland

September 17, 2007
With Piotr Naimski, Vice-Minister for Economics, Poland Sponsored by Columbia University's East Central European Center.

"Energy security is becoming a dominant issue in current international relations. There is unquestionably an increasing dependency of the energy­consuming countries on the energy­producing countries. Thus the two sides are not equal partners, since the producers appear to have the advantage of dictating the rules on the energy market. The situation of Europe can serve as an example. While domestic fossil­fuel resources decrease (the decrease of natural gas production in Great Britain and Denmark is particularly significant), Europe is becoming increasingly dependent on the imported hydrocarbons. The EU's energy import dependence will increase from 50% of total EU energy consumption today to 65% in 2030. Due to the fact that existing transit infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe operates in East­West direction we can assume that Europe's dependency on hydrocarbons will be based on Russian resources mainly..."

Read Vice-Minister Naimski's full statement

Seminar video

Further reading:
Appendix 1 - oil policy
Appendix 2 - natural gas policy
Appendix 3 - letter of Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz
Appendix 4 - energy factsheet of Poland
Appendix 5 - Russian natural gas exporting routes
Appendix 6 - Baltic Pipe
Appendix 6 - LNG terminal and Baltic Pipe
Appendix 6a - Baltic Pipe
Appendix 6b - Baltic Pipe
Appendix 7 - Druzba cut off
Appendix 8 - Caspian oil corridor
Appendix 9 - Russian energy strategy 2020
Appendix 10 - Russian_gas_and_oil_for_Europe
Appendix 11 - Gazprom_in_Europe
Appendix 12 - Turkey_energy_transit_corridor

2006 Highlights

A Film Showing of "Solidarność, Solidarność," commemorating the events of August 1980.

September 13, 6–9 p.m.
1512 IAB

A coproduction of 13 prominent Polish directors: Filip Bajon, Jacek Bromski, Ryszard Bugajski, Jerzy Domaradzki, Feliks Falk, Robert Gliński, Andrzej Jakimowski, Jan Jakub Kolski, Juliusz Machulski, Małgorzata Szumowska, Piotr Trzaskalski, Andrzej Wajda, and Krzysztof Zanussi. With Ewa Turczanska, postproduction coordinator. 113 minutes, in Polish with English subtitles.

View the conference "1956 and Its Impact on the Soviet Bloc," sponsored by Columbia University's East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute, on November 2 and 3, 2006. Read more

 

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