Welcome to the Polish Studies Program!
The Polish Studies Program at the University at Buffalo has entered a period of programmatic development. We aspire to engage students, scholars and the community whose knowledge and interests center on the Polish experience. The Program's mission involves a broad approach to the discipline that situates Polishness in its historical contexts of cosmopolitanism, transnationalism and diaspora. We seek to provide a contemporary international perspective that reflects the nation's new position as a member of the European Union, incorporating, at the same time, the Polish experience outside of Poland as reflected in the Polish community in Buffalo.
News and Events
Academic Year 2012-2013
The Polish Studies Program will welcome one scholar from Poland on the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship during the academic year 2012-2013.
Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz has been awarded the Kosciuszko Foundation Teaching Fellowship at UB’s Polish Studies Program for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. Dr. Mazurkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the History Institute of the University of Gdansk. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Gdańsk, Poland (2006) and has published monographs on U.S. diplomatic relations with Poland and the American press' coverage of elections in Poland in 1947 and 1989. Some of the articles she published concern, among other subjects, Polish presidents 1947-2000 from the American vantage point, and the Assembly of Captive European Nations 1954-1972. She received the award from the Polish National Center for Culture for her doctoral dissertation in History in 2007 and the Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongowiusz Distinction for Excellence in Teaching (2010). In 2002–2003 she taught at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
In the Fall of 2012, she will teach two courses - for more information, go to current Polish Studies course information.
See flyer for Fall 2012 courses: POLISH STUDIES PROGRAM fall 2012
Academic Year 2011-2012
The Polish Studies Program will welcome one scholar from Poland on the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship during the academic year 2010-2011.
Dr. Michal Kaczmarczyk has been awarded the Kosciuszko Foundation Research Fellowship at UB’s Polish Studies Program for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012. Dr. Kaczmarczyk is Assistant Professor at the Department of General Sociology at the University of Gdansk. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (2003) and has published on sociological theory of property, social systems, and social theory. He is also co-editor of Studia Socjologiczne (Sociological Studies) and Forum Socjologów Prawa (The Forum of Law Sociologists).
He is teaching two courses - for more information, go to current Polish Studies course information.
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Film screening
Wednesday, April 25, 6:30pm
A film screening organized by the Polish Studies Program will be held in 120 Clemens Hall. The film shown is a fictionalized account of the events of December 1970 on the Polish Baltic seaside, which led to the downfall of the government of Wladyslaw Gomulka, entitled Black Thursday. The film is in Polish with English subtitles. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!
See flyer for Black Thursday film screening
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Seminar on Poland in Europe
for students and faculty members
Michał Kaczmarczyk
Tuesday, April 24, 3pm
830 Clemens Hall
The seminar will raise the question of how the concept of Europe has shaped the historical, social, and national consciousness of Poles and how Poles have contributed to and helped preserve the complex heritage of Europe. The recent demographic, economical and cultural changes in Poland will be addressed in the context of the developments on the entire continent (European Union and it’s neighbours). The seminar will also examine the institutional and political place of today’s Poland in Europe and the European Union and the problems discussed by the public opinion in Poland as viewed from a sociological perspective. All are welcome to attend.