College graduates look back on their freshman year and know this: Wouldn’t it have been great to have a network right from the start? A spark. An idea, A conversation. Action. A new initiative in Canada’s Hamilton-Toronto area – and it’s spreading.
A spellbinding performance by a master storyteller.
The largest single collection of Polish art is not in Poland, but in India. A special exhibit brings it home, at least for a visit, attracting thousands of visitors to a visual feast.
The rooftop garden of this stunning University of Warsaw library is not only beautiful but also a symbol of Poland’s blossoming capital city – and of the resilience of Polish intellectual life.
There are many motives behind this race to the center of the Earth: money; energy independence; and even the fame that comes with pushing technological limits further. In themselves they are not evil, but where do these pursuits end – and where does the threshold of Inferno begin?
This May, Pope John Paul II will be beatified, following the recognition of his first miracle. The month of May also marks the 14th anniversary of the pastoral visit of the Pope to Lebanon – a country whose religious diversity dragged it into a bloody and destructive civil war that lasted fifteen years.
Secret Agent Krystyna Skarbek inspired Vesper Lynd, the double agent in James Bond’s Casino Royale, and impressed Winston Churchill with her beauty and smarts.
The battle that established Poland’s independence also stopped the Bolshevik advance into war-weary Europe. August 15, 1920 is a date to remember. Justine Jablonska wondered why Encyclopedia Britannica forgot.
For centuries, the biodiversity of the great forest of Poland’s eastern borderlands was the natural habitat for a diversity of cultures.
Thoughts on reconciliation by no less a Katyń authority than Professor Anna Cienciala.
A pilgrimage is a journey to a shrine, holy place or any place of historical interest. Monte Cassino turns out to be all three.
Kinia Adamczyk’s short film captures the indomitable spirit of Halina Babinska, remarkably courageous at the age of 10, still an inspiration 60 years later.
Joanna Szupinska recounts the wonderful moment in history in 1981 that united workers, students and artists to create a multi-layered exhibition and proposed an altogether new social and political reality. The values of that group continue to influence the mission of the Lodz Biennale.
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