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3 14 June 2018 (Thursday) Opening y Welcome by the official guests y Robert Kostro (Polish History Museum), Russel Lewis (Chicago History Museum) Poles in Chicago: The experience of an immigrant joint project of Polish History Museum and Chicago History Museum Introductory talk y Prof. Dominik Pacyga (emeritus Professor of History Columbia College, Chicago) Overview of the history of the Chicago Polonia Coffee break Session I Chair: Prof. Dorota Praszałowicz (Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University) y Prof. Justyna Gulczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Polish émigrés vis-à-vis the identity of young Poles in Chicago at the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries example of the Macierz Polska organization in America y Prof. Andrzej Bonusiak (Rzeszów University) The Polish school in Chicago, its historical functions, importance and prospects for the future y Prof. Bożena Nowicka McLees (Polish Studies Program, Loyola University Chicago) Polish Studies at Colleges and Universities in Chicago y Maria Zakrzewska (retired librarian of the Chicago Public Library) The Chicago Public Library in the service of Polonia Coffee break 3

4 Session II Chair: Russel Lewis (Chicago History Museum) y Prof. Dominik Pacyga (emeritus Professor of History Columbia College, Chicago) Juvenile Delinquency, Polish émigrés (the Polonia), and the Chicago School of Sociology y Dr. Marcin Szerle (independent scholar) Chicago in the eyes of immigrants from Polish territory: The image of the city and its inhabitants as preserved in memoires y Prof. Dorota Praszałowicz (Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University) Social disorganization or re-organization? Social cohesion in Polonia communities in Chicago y Dr. Bartłomiej Gutowski (Institute of History of Art, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw) The Polish catedral architectual style in Chicago Lunch break Session III Chair: Dr. Marcin Szerle (independent scholar) y Prof. Adam Walaszek (Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora Studies, Jagiellonian University) Everyday life in Back of the Yards in 1905 y Dr. Krzysztof Wasilewski (Zbigniew Herbert Provincial and Municipal Library in Gorzów Wielkopolski) Should Polish immigrants strike? Dziennik Chicagoski and labor unrest in the 1890s y Dr. Magdalena Grassmann (Museum of Medical and Pharmacy History / Bialystok Medical University) The Polish medical community in Chicago: History and the present Coffee break 4

5 Session IV Chair: Prof. Sławomir Łukasiewicz (Institute of National Remembrance, Lublin Branch / / Institute of European Studies, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin) y Dr. Marcin Borys (District Museum, Tarnów) The formation of networks of ethnic Polish parishes in Chicago by the end of the 19 th century y Maciej Zaborski (Faculty of Theology, Opole University) Polish immigrant experiences: Father Antoni Kozłowski and the establishment of Polish Catholic Church in Chicago y Dr. Paweł Sieradzki (Institute for the Study of Polish Community and Its Ministry, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin) The International Eucharist Congress in Chicago in 1926, and its Polish participants y Dr. Anna Kołodziejska (Institute for the Study of Polish Community and Its Ministry, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin) The meetings of Archbishop Wojtyła (later John Paul II) with Poles in Chicago 15 June 2018 (Friday) Session V Chair: Robert Kostro (Polish History Museum) y Mariusz Olczak (State Archive of New Records, Warsaw) The Club of former Home Army Soldiers in Chicago y Prof. Sławomir Łukasiewicz (Institute of National Remembrance, Lublin Branch / Institute of European Studies of the Catholic University in Lublin) Soldiers, politicians and federalists: Attempts to start political activity among the Polish émigrés in postwar Chicago in the 1950s. y Prof. Janusz Wróbel (Institute of National Remembrance, Łódź Branch) The Chicago Polonia in the policy of the People s Republic of Poland Coffee break 5

6 Session VI Chair: Prof. Anna Mazurkiewicz (Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk) y Dr. Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw) Polish women in the interwar Chicago: transformations in family and intimate lives y Dr. Anitta Maksymowicz (Ziemia Lubuska Museum, Zielona Góra) Agnieszka Wisła: Organizer, activist, social activist from Chicago y Monika Nowak (Art History Institute, Jagiellonian University) A lady with blue gloves: Maria Lilien-Czarnecka ( ), Frank Lloyd Wright Fellow Lunch break Session VII Chair: Prof. Bożena Nowicka McLees (Polish Studies Program, Loyola University Chicago) y Joanna Dobrowolska (Institute of Polish Literature, Department of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw) Poland and Poles at the World Columbia Exhibition in Chicago y Karolina Skalska (National Library, Warsaw) The activity of Polish-owned record companies in Chicago in the second half of the 20 th century on the basis of the sound recording catalog of the Library of the Polish Museum of America y Jakub Osiński (Polish Literature Institute, Mikołaj Kopernik University, Toruń) Wierzyński s Chicago Coffee break 6

7 Session VIII Chair: Prof. Adam Walaszek (Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora Studies, Jagiellonian University) y Prof. Michał Kopczyński (Polish History Museum / Institute of History, University of Warsaw) / Szymon Antosik (University of Warsaw) Chicago volunteers for the Polish Army in France: Anthropometric analysis y Prof. Monika Gabryś-Sławińska (Lublin Museum / Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin) Aleksander Szczepański versus Tygodnik Ilustrowany: Two views on Chicago in the late twenties and early thirties of the 20 th century y Prof. Anna Horolets (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw) American tourist trips of Polish immigrants living in Chicago Coffee break Session IX Chair: Małgorzata Kot (Polish Museum of America, Chicago) y Antoinette Trela (Former Secretary-Treasurer of Polish Women s Alliance of America, Chicago) / Lidia Rozmus (Editor of Głos Polek, the publication of Polish Women s Alliance of America, Chicago) The history of Polish Women s Alliance of America y Prof. Bożena Nowicka McLees (Polish Studies Program, Loyola University Chicago) Polish collections at Loyola University Archives y Women of Noble Cause A documentary film about the Polish Women s Alliance of America directed by Jan M. Zamorski 7

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