Thursday, September 6, 2018 6:30 P.M.
in Polish Center of Wisconsin, Veterans Room

Polish/Kaszube Emigration and Immigration to Milwaukee
“One Story with Three Strains”

From the PAC-Wisconsin website:  You are cordially invited to attend this lecture to be held in the Veterans Room of the Polish Center of Wisconsin. This event is free and open to the public.

Special attention will be paid to the Jones Island Kaszube settlement of fishermen who arrived from the Hel Peninsula in the Gdansk region of Poland beginning in the 1870's. We will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church, one of the oldest Polish urban churches in the United States. And lastly, the audience will be treated to a special discussion by the Deputy Director of the recently opened Emigration Museum in Gdynia, Poland, who will focus on its goals, programs and future projects.

Moderator: Dr. Angela Pienkos, Educator, Past President of the Polish American Historical Association, and Past Executive Director of the Polish Center of Wisconsin.

Our Distinguished Panel of Speakers Includes:
Prof. Anne Gurnack, Professor Emerita (Political Science), University of Wisconsin Parkside;
Abbe George Baird, Administrator St. Stanislaus Church of Milwaukee;
Sebastian Tyrakowski, Deputy Director of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia Poland.

Location: Polish Center of Wisconsin
6941 S. 68th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53132
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The free lecture will be hosted by the Polish Center of Wisconsin. Please call (414) 529-2140 to register

November 16, 2017 7 pm

The Story of Polish and East European Exiles in the United States after World War II

Lecture by Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz

Professor of History at the University of Gdańsk (Poland) and the 2017-2018 President of the
Polish American Historical Association (PAHA)

The event is sponsored by the Wisconsin State Division of the Polish American Congress and the Polish Heritage Alliance.

“Who was Thaddeus Kosciuszko and
Why Should We Remember Him
- Two Centuries after his Death”

From the CREECA website: October 15, 2017 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the “hero of two continents” and a person called “the purest son of liberty” by his friend, Thomas Jefferson. Just who was Kosciuszko and what did he do in his life that deserves to be remembered, written about, and appreciated today – both in his native Poland and in his adopted country, the United States?

In his remarks Dr. Pienkos will address these two questions and invite comments from his audience and a conversation about Kosciuszko and what he represents today.

As background, the lecture attendees are encouraged to view “Memorializing Kosciuszko,” produced by Milwaukee Public Television in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7rSBGCxA8

Polish government has designated 2017 as the year of Kościuszko on the 200th aniversary of his death.

About the speaker: Donald Pienkos is Professor Emeritus (Political Science) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There he taught courses on Soviet and post-Soviet politics and foreign policy, and the politics of Eastern Europe from 1969 to 2013. Don completed his M.A., Ph.D, and Certificate in Russian Area Studies at the University of Wisconsin and earned his doctorate under the guidance of one of the University’s foremost scholars, Prof. John A. Armstrong. At UW-Milwaukee, Don was a founder of its Russian and East European Studies Committee in 1970 and its Polish Studies Committee in 1979. His many publications have focused on Poland and the Polish diaspora in America. In the 1990s he was engaged in Poland’s, the Czech Republic’s, and the Hungarian republic’s admission into the NATO Alliance. His work has been recognized on a number of occasions, most notably in 2010 when he received the Officer’s Cross of Service from the president of Poland.