Found in Translation Award: Danuta Borchardt for Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia
The 2010 Found in Translation Award goes to Danuta Borchardt for her translation of Pornografia by Polish literary giant Witold Gombrowicz.
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2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Books
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Books
Neal Pease Wins 2010A SEES/Orbis Book Prize for Polish Studies
Neal Pease’s Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: the Catholic Church and Independent Poland, has been named co-winner of the 2010 ASEES/Orbis Book Prize for Polish Studies.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Books
Aquila Polonica to Publish Third Book
Aquila Polonica is about to release its third title, 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron – about Poland’s dashing, brave and heroic pilots.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Films
“New Zealand on Screen” Releases New Film
The 1966 documentary tells the story of 734 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Interviews
American Education Initiatives in Poland
It’s not just Poland looking to the United States, but the other way around too. There are more & more American students coming to study in Poland, which wasn’t the case 15 years ago.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Films
YPCPA Presents Ottawa Premiere of Mary Skinner’s Film, Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers
The event attracted an audience of academics, parliamentarians, students & a large general audience.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary
Former U.S. Ambassador: Poles Have a Basic Love of Liberty
Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe was the keynote speaker at the Poland in the Rockies 2010 official banquet, & spoke about the history & future of Poland.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Poetry
Poetry: Leonard Kress and Cecilia Woloch
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Leonard Kress grew up in and around Philadelphia and graduated from Temple University with a degree in Religious Studies. Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an airplane mechanic.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Commentary
Poland in the Rockies 2010: Victor Ashe, Alex Storozynski and more
The 4th edition of the biennial Poland in the Rockies (PitR) symposium in Polish Studies, held in Canmore, Canada, hosted a dozen speakers & 40 students – incl. former US ambassador Victor Ashe & President of Kosciuszko Foundation Alex Storozynski.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
Kresy: First the Forest
For centuries, the biodiversity of the great forest of Poland’s eastern borderlands was the natural habitat for a diversity of cultures.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
Poland, Russia, and Katyń – Is Reconciliation Possible?
Thoughts on reconciliation by no less a Katyń authority than Professor Anna Cienciala.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Films / Interviews
The Officer’s Wife: A Conversation with Director Piotr Uzarowicz
Piotr Uzarowicz’s grandfather was one the officers murdered at Katyń. His moving film examines how a political conspiracy of silence left bare his family’s wounds of war.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Travel
Day-Tripping in… Białystok
Christian Davies and Eric Bednarski take a day trip to Białystok, and find that it’s a fitting analogy to Poland as a whole.
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