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Anna Parkitna holds a Master of Arts degree from I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland, and a degree in Master of Music from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, UK. She performs regularly, both solo and in chamber music. |
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Hannah Sless received a post graduate diploma from the Australian Institute of arts and studied baroque violin at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands. She plays regularly with period groups, including the Gabrielli Ensemble and the Netherland Bach Orchestra. |
Anna and Hannah are coming to Rochester from England especially for this performance. They will be playing music for harpsichord and violin, as well as for harpsichord solo, including Polish baroque music.
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY 14604
Co-sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and the Polish Heritage Society of Rochester.
Free and open to the public
Thursday, March 19, 5:15 pm
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Randall Stone, Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
Are the Russians Still Coming?
Russia struggled after the end of the Cold War to build a market economy and a democratic political system, but by the time it had achieved a measure of economic success, its politics had become increasingly authoritarian. Meanwhile, Russia’s relations with its more democratic neighbors have soured, and conflict has come to predominate over cooperation in relations with the United States. What conclusions should we draw from Russia’s recent conflict with Georgia, and from its tensions with other neighboring countries? How should U.S. foreign policy respond?
Rochester Public Library
The talk is a part of a series “Thursday Thinker Series” and is sponsored by the Friends of the Public Library.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 25, 12 p.m.
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Dr. Daniel Epstein, Skalny Center Postdoctoral Fellow
Political Party System Development in Post-Communist Poland
Although Poland's democracy has shown none of the signs of authoritarian backsliding of its post-socialist neighbors further east, the institutions of its democracy have not become as routinized as in other successful transitions regimes. This talk will examine the development of some of the critical institutions of democracy in Poland, including the semi-presidential system and the political party system.
Daniel J. Epstein received a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2008 and is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester. His dissertation examined party system institutionalization in Russia and Brazil the influence of executive-legislative balance upon it. He is now beginning a study of the Polish party system in comparative perspective. Next fall, Dr. Epstein will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University.
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided; for lunch reservation contact the Skalny Center: tel. (585) 275-9898, or e-mail: bozenna.sobolewska@rochester.edu by March 23.
Sunday, March 29, 3 p.m.
Concert of Polish Music
FROM CHOPIN TO PENDERECKI:
masterpieces of Polish music from romantic to contemporary
Music of Chopin, Szymanowski, Moniuszko, Wieniawski, Panufnik, Penderecki, and other Polish composers for violin, piano, cello, and piano trio.
MEET THE ARTISTS:
Born in Łódź, Poland, cellist Ignacy Grzelązka received his musical training at Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and at Texas Christian University. He has performed, among others, at the National Philharmonic Hall and the Royal Castle Hall in Warsaw, Poland, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall in Germany, and at the festival “Music in the Mountains” in Durango, CO. He won many international awards, like the Grand Prize for Best Solo Performance and Best Chamber Music Performance at the Allegro-Vivo music festival in Horn, Austria; award at International Kiejstut Bacewicz Chamber Music Competition in Łódź, Poland, and scholarships from the Ministry of Culture in Poland and the Ministry of Culture in Austria.
Sabina Ślepecki has been the First Violinist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since 1973. She holds degrees from Academy of Music in Warsaw and Julliard School of Music and has performed as soloist with Warsaw Philharmonic, Katowice Philharmonic, Bergen Symphony Orchestra, and many others. She has been active in the Polish community in Rochester for many years, promoting Polish music and working with Polish youth.
Zuzanna A. Szewczyk holds a Bachelor's and Master's in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music and is currently in her final year of studies towards a Doctorate of Musical Arts. She studies with Professor Natalya Antonova and especially enjoys performing and premiering new music. She is a recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, plays weekly concerts at retirement homes (Mozart and Chopin), and has a private studio of over 30 students in the Rochester area.
14 year old Emily Tworek Helenbrook, has been described as a “vocal prodigy,” blessed with a ‘”hauntingly beautiful voice” which has thrilled audiences throughout Western New York and Canada. She has performed as a vocal soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Cathedral Strings Orchestra at St. Paul’s Cathedral Canisus College, Villa Maria College in Buffalo, Nazareth College, and Kilbourn Hall, to name a few. She was the featured soloist with the ARS Nova Orchestra in their Viva Vivaldi series. Emily has recently won the Search for a Star music competition, sponsored by the RPO and will be performing with the orchestra on May 31 at the Eastman Theatre.
Joseph Werner has been the Principal Pianist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since 1975 and the orchestra's Personnel Manager since 1993. He also serves as Co-Artistic Director of Chamber Music Rochester and Co-Chair of the Piano Department of the Hochstein Music School. Mr. Werner is the 2007 Mu Phi Epsilon Musician of the Year.
Strong Auditorium, Lower Level, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the Department of Music, and the Polish Heritage Society of Rochester.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 17 8;00 pm and Sunday, April 19, 7:00 pm
“KATYŃ” ( Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2007, 118 min., Polish, Russian, and German with English subtitles)
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Director: Andrzej Wajda The atrocities in Poland’s Katyń Forest, where over 15,000 Polish war prisoners were executed and buried in secret by the Soviets in 1940, provides the emotional center of this deeply moving new drama. The movie, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards, offers a fascinating and unusually compassionate study of Poland’s complicated position during WWII. Wajda, Poland’s premiere director and Academy Honorary Award winner, has, at age 81, crafted a masterpiece. In addition to featuring a top Polish cast, the cinematographer is award-winning Paweł Edelman ("Ray," "All the King's Men," "The Pianist," "Oliver Twist") and the music is by the world-famous composer Krzysztof Penderecki. |
Dryden Theatre, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607, 585-271-4090
Tickets for these screenings can be purchased at the Dryden Theatre box office before each show. The ticket price is $7.00 /$5 members and students.
Theater doors open 45 minutes prior to show time.
Co-sponsored by George Eastman House and Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies.
Thursday, April 30, 7:30 p.m.
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and Skalny Center Visiting Professor
Polish Christian-Polish Jewish Relations at the Dawn of the 21 st Century
After the Holocaust and after a half century of totalitarianism which had “monoculturalized” the population, the average person – inside Poland as well as out – believed Polish Christian-Polish Jewish relations to be a moot point in 1989. Who was there to talk to and what was there to talk about? In fact, however, there had been work quietly or more loudly done by both Polish Jews and Polish Christians since the 1970s. Nearly two decades after communism, where is this taking “Polish-Jewish Relations” within Poland and without?
Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a Polish-American expatriate who has been living in Kraków, Poland since 1985. A social anthropologist in the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, her field of research is majority-minority relations – particularly issues of racism, extreme nationalism, and antisemitism – and political anthropology. In addition to the Jagiellonian in Krakow and the Centre of Social Studies in Warsaw, she also lectures at the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska was a 1999 Koerner Holocaust Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, a 2004 Yad Vashem Fellow in Israel, and is currently a Skalny Center Visiting Professor at the University of Rochester.
Sloan Auditorium, Goergen Hall
Free and open to the public
For more information about these events contact the Skalny Center: tel. (585) 275-9898,
e-mail: bozenna.sobolewska@rochester.edu
List of Fall 2008 Events:
Thursday, September 11, 12 p.m.
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Dr. Anna Niedźwiedź, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland and Visiting Scholar at Indiana University Anthropology Department
Is Contemporary Popular Catholicism National or Transnational?
“Popular Catholicism” is a term that appears in analyses of many contemporary societies around the world. In the case of Poland this term possesses a strong national dimension, which is connected with a complicated historical background and the development of a national mythology in relation to popular religion. Are there any specific features that make Polish popular Catholicism still ‘popular’ in a new, post-Communist, European Poland? Which aspects of popular religion are common to the whole area of East-Central Europe (where different denominations appear), and which aspects, on the other hand, are common to other European and American countries with a strong Catholic tradition? It is interesting to inquire whether the ‘national’ dimension is still an important feature to make Catholicism popular in contemporary societies, or rather trans-national, ‘global’ tendencies appear to attract worshippers.
Anna Niedźwiedź’s main interests focus on the contemporary approach toward religion and religiosity (especially mass and “folk” religiosity) as well as on visual anthropology and the idea of image in historical and modern societies. She conducted fieldwork, researching Polish religiosity, and in 2005 published a book: Obraz i postac: Znaczenia wizerunku Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej (Image and Person: Meanings of the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa) by Jagiellonian University Press, which will be published in English. She is also interested in the symbolic dimension of the urban space and is a member of the Polish Society of Urban Ethnology.
Professor Niedźwiedź has been awarded many grants and honors, including a KBN grant from the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research; a K. Estreicher Fund Fellowship; and a Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie Conference Fellowship. She has taught cultural anthropology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Dr. Niedźwiedź has spoken at the University of Rochester twice before (in 2006 and 2007) and was well received.
The event is co-sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the John Henry Newman Chair of Roman Catholic Studies, The Catholic Newman Community , the Department of Religion and Classics, and the Department of Anthropology
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided; for lunch reservation contact the Skalny Center: tel. (585) 275-9898, e-mail: bozenna.sobolewska@rochester.edu, by Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
Tuesday, October 21, 12 p.m.
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Dr. Ognian Hishow, Senior research associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany, and Skalny Center Visiting Professor
The Social Model of European Union in Times of Globalization
Until the early 1990s the European Union was pursuing a "just" economic and social model based upon close cooperation between business and unions and extensive income redistribution. Pressure from globalization and the new member states has driven significant changes. Moreover, there are several variants of the model in place; the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon models are most directly opposed. Will Europe succeed in preserving equity and social justice, and what adjustment will be required, at what economic cost?
Welles-Brown Room, Rush – Rhees Library
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided; for lunch reservation contact the Skalny Center: tel. (585) 275-9898, e-mail: bozenna.sobolewska@rochester.edu, by Tuesday, October 17, 2008.
Monday, November 3, 12:00 p.m.
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Justice Jerzy Stępień
Judicial Independence and Politics in Today’s Poland
Jerzy Stępień, Chief Justice, Polish Constitutional Tribunal (2006-08), judge, senator (1989-1992), cabinet member, Solidarity leader, statesman and politician will share his reflections on the tension between politics and judicial independence in Poland in the context of the “New Europe.”
Justice Stępień presided over the debate about the constitutionality and the ultimate overturning in 2007 of the highly politicized and controversial Lustration Law. After his tenure in office ended in June 2008, he served as deputy Dean of the Law School at the Łazarski School of Law and Commerce, a private university in Warsaw.
Before becoming the justice of the Constitutional tribunal of Poland, Jerzy Stępień served as a Senator in a committee that drafted the first post communist constitution, as a General Commissioner of Elections, and as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration. A member of the national council of Solidarity, Stępień co-authored the historical “Appeal to the Nations of Central and Eastern Europe”, a document still cited as the most important program of international changes and re-building the old (Soviet dominated) Eastern Europe into the democratic New Europe. Justice Stępień is the only judge of the Tribunal who has the status of a victim (pokrzywdzony) by the communist authorities according to the classifications of the Institute of National Memory (IPN) because he was jailed on Dec 13, 1981 and kept in prison for the entire Martial Law period.
On June 3, 2008, the President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, awarded Jerzy Stępień with Grand Prince Giedymin Order.
Justice Stępień has authored numerous articles in the field of public administration, electoral law, constitutional law and modern history. He has also written about his life time second passion, besides law and politics, which has been music and especially jazz. He is an accomplished tenor saxophonist and has served as vice president of the Polish Jazz Association.
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided; for lunch reservation contact the Skalny Center: tel. (585) 275-9898, e-mail: bozenna.sobolewska@rochester.edu, by Thursday, November 30, 2008.
Thursday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Ewa Hauser, Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
Ukrainian Search for National Narrative
Dr. Ewa Hauser is the former director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies. She has been teaching courses at the University of Rochester dealing with ethnic and national issues as well as on European and American political film since 1992.
Having just returned from a senior Fulbright grant in Lviv and Mykolaiv Ukraine (where she has some family roots) professor Hauser will discuss the process of national identification formation in Eastern and Western Ukraine and the search for a unified national narrative.
Using the results of socio-historical studies by Ukrainian and American academics, and her own research including analysis of history textbooks, recent historical films, and interviews conducted while teaching in an eastern (Mykolaiv) and a western (Lviv) universities, Ewa Hauser will explore the themes of deep regional differences in historical memories of the Twentieth century in this former Soviet republic. Her presentation will focus on recent attempts by the Ukrainian central government to influence the form of collective memory by staging national holidays and facilitating memory of traumatic and formerly forbidden issues such as the Soviet state-imposed famine or Holodomor, and the rehabilitation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its armed force, or Partisan Army, UPA, on the one hand, and the popular reaction to these institutional policies aimed at creating a unified historical narrative, on the other hand.Hawkins-Carlson Reading Room , Rush Rhees Library
Free and open to the public. Parking on designated University lots is free. Reception will follow the talk . RSVP by October 31 to (585) 275-9898 or bozena.sobolewska@rochester.edu
November 15– November 19
Polish Film Festival – Jerzy Stuhr Retrospective
This 5 film retrospective offers a fascinating look at the career of Jerzy Stuhr – one of the most accomplished Polish actors and film directors. He will be an honored guest at the Festival.
The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue
Tickets can be purchased at the Little Theatre box office before each show.
Sunday, December 14, 3:00 p.m.
Piano Recital by Zuzanna Szewczyk
An accomplished pianist, Zuzanna Szewczyk is now completing her doctoral studies in piano performance at the Eastman School of Music. She will be playing music of Chopin, Mozart, and selected world premiers by Eastman composers.
Strong Auditorium, Lower Level, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and the Department of Music
Free and open to the public
List of Spring 2008 Events:
Monday, March 31, 12 p.m.
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Dr. Alexandra Hennessy, Skalny Center Postdoctoral Fellow
The EU Single Pension Market: Comparing Old and New Member States’ Progress
The European Union has made efforts to integrate its pension market in order to increase labor mobility and deepen financial markets, but progress has been uneven and the forces supporting or inhibiting reform are poorly understood. This talk examines competing hypotheses about the ability of member states to comply with EU law in the light of the Polish case.
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided; for lunch reservation contact the Skalny Center: tel. (585) 275-9898, e-mail: bozena.sobolewska@mail.rochester.edu by March 27.
Sunday, April 6, 3 p.m.
Piano Recital by Igor Lipinski
Igor Lipiński, a 21-year-old pianist from Tarnów, Poland, is back on the Strong Auditorium’s stage by popular demand, with the recital of music of Chopin, Liszt, Paderewski, and Piazzola. He played for us in December, 2006 and the audience highly praised his excellent technique and unique musical feeling. Igor studies piano performance at the Eastman School of Music with Professor Douglas Humpherys.
Strong Auditorium, Lower Level, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and the Department of Music
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Radosław Rybkowski, Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of America Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and Skalny Center Visiting Professor
Struggling with Europe: Polish Foreign Policy after the 2007 Election
As a professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Dr. Radosław Rybkowski is a specialist in American and European higher education policies. He is also an expert in Polish current affairs and, as such, was delegated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attend the Heads of State Summit in 2006. In his talk, based on personal observations and experience, Dr. Rybkowski will discuss Polish foreign policy, which recently became a very exciting issue.
The parliamentary elections in Poland last year led to a change in government and growing conflict about the making of Polish foreign policy. Before the elections, President Lech Kaczyński, Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga were members of the same party, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice), and shared a similar vision of NATO, the European Union and Poland’s place in international relations. The new Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, represent the liberal Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform), and conflict has arisen over responsibility for managing Polish foreign relations. Vivid discussions among policy makers, constitutional law specialists, and the media reflect the complicated nature of Polish system of government. Vivid discussions among policy makers, constitutional law specialists, and the media reflect the complicated nature of Polish system of government. In particular, the latest debates on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty (the framework for future reforms of the European Union) resulted in public questioning of the authority of both the President and the Prime Minister of Poland in the field of international affairs. The events of last months prove that there is no easy solution to the existing problems in sight.
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow, RSVP to 275-9898 by April 18.
List of Fall 2007 Events:
September 24, 3:30 pm
Skalny Seminar
Dr. Ognian Hishow, Researcher at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
European economic integration: Enlargement, Lisbon Strategy and Common Currency
The talk will focus on the political economy of European integration with emphasis on recent developments .
Harkness Hall, Room 329
Free and open to the public
October 17, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Randall Stone, Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
The Cold War as History
Freshmen entering the University of Rochester this year were born in 1989, the year the Cold War ended. They have never known a time when Europe was divided, when the United States and the Soviet Union faced off from opposite sides of the international system, and when the world lived under the awful specter of nuclear war. What important lessons should their generation draw from the experience of the Cold War? What, on the other hand, do we now know about the Cold War—after the opening of archives and the accelerated exchange of scholarship that followed—that we did not know while it was under way? Finally, why it was so difficult to predict the end of the Cold War, and what should we learn from this failure?
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow, RSVP to 275-9898 by October 12.
Co-sponsored by the Russian Studies Program.
October 25, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Tanya Bagashka, Ph. D. student at the Department of Political Science, University of Rochester
Invisible Politics: Legislative Alignments in the 1996-1999 Russian Duma (Parliament)
Analysis of legislative voting has focused on the behavior of formal legislative parties, whether the country under examination was an established democracy or a newly democratized country. The speaker argues that this approach is inadequate for countries with young party systems. In order to establish to what extent legislative coalitions are party-based, we need to allow for the possibility that institutional incentives might dominate party influence. A Bayesian discrete latent variable method is applied to identify the legislative coalitions in the 1996-1999 Duma. It is shown that: legislative alignments cut across party lines; policy preferences, electoral incentives, and support for the president contribute to divides within parties lacking coherent platforms.
Gamble Room, Rush – Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, RSVP to 275-9898 by October 23
Co-sponsored by the Russian Studies Program.
November 10– November 14
Polish Film Festival
The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue
Tickets can be purchased at the Little Theatre box office before each show.
The program for the festival will be available at http://www.rochester.edu/college/psc/CPCES/PFF2007.htm in October.
December 9, 3:00 pm
Violin Recital by Alexander Styk
Oleksandra Yurchenko - Piano
Alexander Styk is a 15-year-old violin prodigy from Pittsford, NY, and a winner of three PHSR Scholarships, three Fortissimo! competitions, and many other awards. In 2005 he performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
He will play music of Wieniawski, Mozart, Lalo, Ravel, and Monti.
Strong Auditorium, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music
Free and open to the public
Skalny Center recommends attending the recital of Michał Wesołowski, on Sunday, September 30, 3:00 pm , at the Kilbourn Hall ( 26 Gibbs Street). This special performance will feature the complete mazurkas for solo piano by Frederic Chopin. It will include two intermissions, and will end at approximately 6pm.
List of Spring 2007 Events:
February 14, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Dr. Wieslaw Krajka, Professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow in the University of Rochester English Department, and Skalny Center Visiting Professor.
Joseph Conrad’s Polishness
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), born Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski , in Berdyczów (now Ukraine) into a highly-patriotic Polish family, is considered to be one of the greatest writers in the history of English and world literature.
Wieslaw Krajka, general editor of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, will examine Conrad’s attitude vis-à-vis Poland from the first seventeen years of his life spent in Poland until his support of the recreated independent Poland during and after World War I. The seminar also address major manifestations of Polishness (direct and indirect) in the style of his fiction, in "Lord Jim," "Amy Foster," the political novels and the late political essays.
Gamble Room, Rush – Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Department of English
Lunch will be provided, RSVP to 275-9898 by February 12
March 26, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Anna Niedźwiedź, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, and Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor at University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), Polish Studies Program.
Mythical Vision of City – Kraków as a “Pope’s City”
Professor Niedźwiedź has been awarded many grants and honors, including a KBN grant from the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research; a K. Estreicher Fund Fellowship; and a Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie Conference Fellowship. She has taught cultural anthropology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. In October 2006, she spoke at the University of Rochester on “ Images of the Mother of God in Polish Religiosity.”
The lecture will present the symbolism of Kraków in connection with the mythological image of Pope John Paul II as a Polish national hero. The analysis will be based on the description of spontaneous public behavior in Kraków immediately after the death of John Paul II in April 2005 as well as on the analysis of historical and contemporary sources connected with a mythical vision of the city of Kraków in Polish national mythology. The Pope’s popular image among Poles is connected to 19 th-century Romantic mythology and a vision of a powerful, national hero who can save a captive nation. Kraków is considered by many as a cradle of national pride. In this context, it is interesting to see the way in which the memory of the Pope is present in Kraków’s urban space.
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion and Classics
Free and open to the public
April 22, 3:00 pm
Piano Recital by Filip Blachnio
Filip Blachnio, born in Ostróda, Poland, is a senior at the Eastman School of Music. He studies piano performance with Prof. Thomas Schumacher and harpsichord with Prof. William Porter. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Fine Arts Award in piano from the Interlochen Arts Academy, from which he graduated in 2003. In addition, Filip Blachnio holds a minor in mathematics from the University of Rochester.
Strong Auditorium, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music
Free and open to the public
May 5, 7:30 pm
Organ music recital and presentation
Bogna McGarrigle, Organ Department of the Eastman School of Music and Kraków Academy of Music graduate student
Hans Davidsson, Eastman Organ Professor
A recital of organ music and a presentation about the Eastman School of Music project involving restoration of the historic 1776 Casparini organ in Vilnius (Lithuania) and, simultaneously, building a reproduction of this organ in Rochester’s Christ Church. Considered to be one of the most valuable musical artifacts of its time in Europe today, the Casparini organ is located at the Church of the Dominicans ( Holy Spirit Church), which is the centre of the Polish-speaking community in Vilnius.
Location: St. Stanislaus Church, 34 St. Stanislaus St.
Co-sponsored by the Eastman School of Music
Free and open to the public
List of Fall 2006 Events:
October 11, 9:30 am- 5:30 pm
Images of America: Polish Perspectives on the U.S.
One-day symposium sponsored by:
Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission; U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; American Studies Center, Warsaw University; and Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, University of Rochester
University of Rochester River Campus, Interfaith Chapel
Free and open to the public
October 30, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Dr. Anna Niedźwiedź, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, and Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor at University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), Polish Studies Program.
Images of the Mother of God in Polish Religiosity
Anna Niedźwiedź earned her Ph.D. in 2003 in the field of cultural anthropology at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Her main interests focus on contemporary approaches to religion and religiosity (especially mass and “folk” religiosity) as well as on visual anthropology and the idea of image in historical and modern societies. She conducted fieldwork research in Polish religiosity and in 2005 published a book: Obraz i postać. Znaczenia wizerunku Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej (Image and Person: Meanings of the Picture of Our Lady of Czestochowa), Jagiellonian University Press, which is going to be published in English. She is also interested in the symbolical dimension of urban space and is a member of the Polish Society of Urban Ethnology. She has received many grants and honors (e.g., KBN grant - The Polish State Committee for Scientific Research Grant, K. Estreicher Found Fellowship, Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie, Conference Fellowship). She has taught cultural anthropology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at the University at Buffalo with a 10-month Teaching Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship.
The lecture will present the symbolical meanings connected with the popular image of Our Lady in Polish culture. Different historical and ethnographical examples will be shown to reveal the complexity of this powerful figure and religious image. Also, connections between national and religious dimensions, so strong within the Polish culture and tradition, will be emphasized. Special focus will be given toward the period of Communism, when the image of Our Lady (especially the picture of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa) appeared in political contexts, serving as a powerful symbol depicting the resistance toward the Communist rule.
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion and Classics and the Department of Anthropology
Lunch will be provided, RSVP to 275-9898 by October 26
November 18– November 22
Polish Film Festival
The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue
Tickets can be purchased at the Little Theatre box office before each show.
The program for the festival will be available in October.
December 10, 3:00 pm
Piano Recital by Igor Lipiński
Igor Lipiński is a 19-year-old pianist from Tarnów, Poland, and a winner of the Grand Prix for Young Pianists at the Paderewski Festival in Kąśna Dolna, Poland, in 1999 and 2000. He studies piano at the Eastman School of Music with Professor Douglas Humpherys.
Strong Auditorium, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music
Free and open to the public
List of Spring 2006 Events:
February 17, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Professor Michal Paweł Markowski, Chair of the Department of International Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University
Gombrowicz: Literature and the World.
Welles Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
March 20, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Professor Michał Galas, Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University and Skalny Visiting Professor
Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) - Polish Patriot and a Reformer of the American Judaism
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies and College Dean’s Office
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
March 29, 12:00
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
David Ost, Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Department of Political Science
Randall Stone, Professor, UR Department of Political Science – commentator
The Defeat of Solidarity : Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
May 7, 1:30 pm
Polish Youth Concert
Strong Auditorium, Lower level, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the UR Department of Music and Polish Heritage Society of Rochester
May 12, 8:00 pm
Piano recital by Adam Makowicz
Adam Makowicz, an internationally acclaimed jazz piano virtuoso, has dazzled audiences throughout the world with his touch, articulation, and rich harmonic textures. He has performed solo, with groups, and with orchestras, including the National Symphony Orchestra; performed in major concert halls, festivals, and clubs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Peru and Thailand. He has shared a stage with many jazz greats.
He will play music of Frederic Chopin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Leonard Bermstein, and his own compositions.
Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St ., Main Building of the Eastman School of Music
Tickets: $25, $20, $15
$5 discount available to UR students.
Tickets can be purchased on line, by phone at (585) 454-2100, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or at any Wegmans Video Department.
Important information:
Skalny Center recommends attending the recital of a legendary Polish pianist, Krystian Zimerman, on Tuesday, April 11, 8:00 pm , at the Eastman Theatre ( 26 Gibbs Street). Winner of the prestigious Warsaw International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1975, Zimerman is universally recognized as one of the world’s greatest keyboard artists. He has worked with many great musicians including Rubinstein, Bernstein, and Karajan.
His recital is a part of the Eastman School of Music “Grand Pianist” series.
List of Fall 2005 Events:
October 10, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Luiza Nader, Visiting Fulbright
researcher at Art and Art History Department, Graduate Program in Visual
and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester; Ph. D. candidate, Warsaw
University, Institute of Art History.
Neoavantgarde art in Poland :
theory and practice.
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored
by the Visual and Cultural Studies
Lunch will be provided, RSVP to 275-9898
November 10, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Izabela Kalinowska - Blackwood, Professor
of Slavic Studies at Stony Brook University
How to Travel? The East-West
Encounter According to Mickiewicz
Presentation, discussion, and
book signing
Meliora, Frederic Douglass Bldg, 4 th floor, Ballroom, UR River
Campus
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by
the Russian Studies Program.
Reception will follow, RSVP to 275-9898
November 13 – November 18
Polish Film Festival
Nov. 13 – Nov. 17 - The
Little Theatre, 240
East Avenue
Tickets can be purchased at the Little Theatre
box office before each show.
November 18- The Dryden Theater
at the George Eastman House, 900
East Avenue
Tickets can be purchased at the Dryden Theater
box office before the show.
Program will be posted in October.
December 5, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Joanna Mishtal, Doctoral
Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Women's
Health, Reproduction, and Sexuality in Contemporary Poland .
Gamble
Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Department
of Anthropology and the Division of Public Health, Center for Global
Health, University of Rochester
December 8, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Wojciech Bienkowski, Professor and Director of the US Economy Research Center, Warsaw School of Economics, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Environmental Protection in the New Europe: Poland Joins the EU.
Wells-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy.
December 10, 3:00 pm
Violoncello Recital by Mikołaj Pałosz
Oleksandra
Yurchenko - Piano
Romantic and contemporary Polish music played
by Mikołaj Pałosz,
an acclaimed cellist from Warsaw . He is a prizewinner at the 1st International
Lutosławski Cello Competition in Warsaw , the 5th Penderecki International
Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in Cracow , and many others. As
a member of Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico he has toured Europe,
Brazil and Mexico . Mikołaj is a member of chamber ensembles based
in Warsaw and an improvising musician.
Sanctuary, Interfaith
Chapel, UR River
Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music
Free and open to
the public
List of Spring 2005 Events:
February 4, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Agnieszka Graff and Tomasz Basiuk, American Studies Center , University
of Warsaw
“Letting them see us” – the
new visibility of gender and sexuality in the public sphere in Poland .
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by the
Department of Modern Languages and Culture, Visual and Cultural Studies,
and Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies.
February 25, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Professor Mary Jane Curry, Warner Graduate School of Education and
Human Development
The Global Imperative of English in Academic Publishing
Mary Jane Curry, assistant professor at the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development will deliver a lecture describing the efforts of non-native English-speaking scholars to publish their research in journals printed in English.
English has become the dominant language of publishing in most academic fields. Like many scholars around the world, Central Europeans are coming under mounting pressure to publish in English, which is often a major criterion for promotion and research funding. This presentation will report on an ongoing four-year, longitudinal study conducted with Theresa Lillis of the Open University (UK) investigating how some 25 scholars from Slovakia and Hungary, working in the areas of education and psychology, experience this growing demand to publish in English. The presentation will describe the research contexts, methodology, and theoretical frameworks, then flesh out the initial findings.
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
March 30, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Professor Krzysztof Zamorski, Jagiellonian
University, Krakow, Poland and Skalny Center Visiting Professor
Is History a Human Experience of the Past?
Gamble Room,
Rush Rhees Library
Co-sponsored by History Department.
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
April 17, 3:00 pm
Piano Recital by Stephen Beus
Winner of the 2004 Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, 2003 Music
Teachers National Association Competition, and many others, Stephen Beus
currently is studying piano at the Juilliard School of Music as a scholarship
student.
Strong Auditorium, lower level
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Kosciuszko Foundation.
Free and open to the public
Program:
F. J. Haydn: Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:50
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto
J. S. Bach- F. Busoni: Chorale Prelude
#3,
"Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland"
F. Chopin: Sonata #3 in B minor, Op. 58
Allegro
maestoso
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Largo
Finale: Presto, non tanto
Intermission
A. Scriabin: Sonata #9, Op. 68 "Black Mass”
S. Rachmaninov: Sonata #2 in B-flat
Minor, Op. 36 (original version)
Allegro agitato
Non allegro
Allegro molto
April 21, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
CANCELLED
Dr. Izabela Kalinowska, Professor of Slavic Studies at Stony Brook
University
How to Travel? The East-West Encounter According
to Mickiewicz
Presentation, discussion, and book signing
Meliora, Frederic Douglass Bldg, 3 rd floor, Salon D, UR River
Campus
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Russian Studies Program.
Reception will follow, please RSVP to 275-9898
April 25, 3:00 pm
Skalny Lecture
Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskyy, President of the University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy",
Kyiv, Ukraine
Aftermath of Orange Revolution in Ukraine
Welles Brown Room, Rush-Rhees Library, UR River Campus
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Russian Studies Program, Department of Political Science,
and the Rochester Ukrainian Group.
Professor Bryukhovetskyy is the organizer of the “Committee for the National Salvation” during the recent election process in Ukraine and the first university professor who took his students and staff to the streets of Kyiv to protest the fraudulent election.
Professor Bryukhovetskyy has been the president of the National University of “ Kyiv-Molhyla Academy ” since 1994. He has researched and taught literary theory and history of literature for over twenty years. He was a researcher and one of the department heads at Institute of Literature at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He has authored over 300 publications on Ukrainian literature.
May 1, 1:30 pm
Polish Youth Concert and Art Exhibition
Strong Auditorium, Lower level, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored
by the UR Department of Music and Polish Heritage Society of Rochester
List of Fall 2004 Events:
September 29, 12:00 pm
Skalny
Luncheon Seminar
Professor Grzegorz Kolodko, John C. Evans
Scholar in Polish Studies, University of Rochester, Director of TIGER at
the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Polish Deputy
Premier and Minister of Finance in 2002-03, First Deputy Premier and Minister
of Finance in 1994-97.
“ The Political and Economic Implications of Poland ’s
Membership in the European Union”
After 15 years since the post-socialist transition started in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union , eight countries have joined the European Union. It has been a difficult task to accomplish, yet most of the structural and institutional problems have already been successfully solved. However, the new challenges are emerging too. There is a wide belief that the membership in the EU will facilitate further economic expansion and will help to catch up with the more advanced economies of Europe and the world. Is it going to happen? There are the fears that Poland and other new members are losing a part of their political sovereignty. Is it unavoidable? Is there already in place a full-fledged market economy, political democracy and civic society? And what new chances and new risks lie ahead?
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
October 20, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
“And Yet I Still Have
Dreams,” Northwestern
University Press, September 2004
Meeting with author Joanna Wiszniewicz and Regina Grol, translator
from Polish into English.
Joanna Wiszniewicz is a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute,
Poland .
Regina Grol is a Professor of Literature at the Empire State College,
Buffalo , NY .
Lander Auditorium, Hutchinson Hall, UR River
Campus
Co-sponsored by the Dean of the College and by Center for Holocaust
Awareness and Information (CHAI), Jewish Community Federation of Greater
Rochester
October 26, 2:00 pm
Skalny Lecture
Lukasz Ronduda, Curator of New Media at the Center for Contemporary
Art Zamek
Ujazdowski in Warsaw , Poland
The Workshop of the Film Form (1970-1977): Early Film Work from Poland
Gowen Room, Wilson Commons , UR River
Campus
Co-sponsored by Art and Art History Department, Film and Media Studies
Program, and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies.
October 28, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, Consul General of the Republic of Poland
.Collective Memory as a Factor in Polish-Ukrainian
Relations
Lander Auditorium, Hutchinson Hall, UR River
Campus
Reception will follow
November 14 – November 18
Polish Film Festival
The Festival will showcase several recent Polish films which are not
yet in distribution in the Unites States. Several of the films being
shown have won prestigious awards in Poland . All tickets can be purchased
at the Little Theatre box office before each show.
For more information
or a list of films call the Skalny Center at 585-275-9898.
The
Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue
December 3, 12:00
pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Professor Mary Jane Curry, Warner Graduate School of Education and
Human Development
“ The Imperative of English-language
Academic Publishing for Central European Scholars”
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
List of Spring 2004 Events:
January 23, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Barbara Tepa Lupack, Ph.D., will present a talk about her reaserch for
many books about Jerzy Kosinski
“Reassessing Jerzy Kosinski: From Painted Bird to Tainted Words”
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
February 1, 3:00 pm
Piano Recital by
Elena Letnanova
“Chopin in music and letters”
Elena Letnanowa from Bratislava comes back to Rochester with a program
containing music of Frederic Chopin and letters written by him and by
his friends. Letters will be read by Emil Homerin, Professor at the Religion
and Classics Department.
Strong Auditorium, Lower level
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Department of Religion
and Classic.
Free and open to the public
February 20, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Professor Andrzej Mania, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and Skalny
Center Visiting Professor
"American Presidents and Poland"
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
February 25, 7:30 pm
Reception
in Honor of Krzysztof Penderecki
The Inn on Broadway
March 16, 7:30 pm
Skalny Lecture
Dr. Norman P. Neureiter, Science Attaché, U.S. Embassy
in Warsaw, 1967 - 69, Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary
of State, 2000 - 2003
“Science and technology in U.S. – Poland relations during
the Cold War and now”
Welles Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, UR River Campus
Free and open to the public
May 2, 1:30 pm
Polish Youth Concert and Art Exhibition
Strong Auditorium, Lower level, UR River Campus
Co-sponsored by the UR Department of Music and Polish Heritage Society
of Rochester
October 20, 12:00 pm
Skalny Luncheon Seminar
Professor Celia Applegate, Department of History, and Professor Lynn Gordon,
M. Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Recipients
of the Skalny 2002 Course Development Grant
“Contemporary Poland at the Crossroads: Impressions from the
Summer of 2003”
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to 275-9898
October 28, 7:00 pm
Skalny Lecture
Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
“A Question of Honor. The
Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II”
Presentation, discussion and book signing.
Great Hall, Rush Rhees Library
November 9 – November 13
Polish Film Festival
The Festival will showcase several recent Polish films which are not yet
in distribution in the Unites States. Several of the films being shown
have won prestigious awards in Poland. The Festival will start on Sunday
with the screening of the adaptation of the famous novel by I. Kraszewski,
“The Old Tale” (“Stara Basn”), an excellent all-ages
movie.
Prices for tickets are $6.50 for evening films and $4.50 for matinees.
Exception: prices for “The Old Tale” are $12.00 for adults
and $9.00 for school and college students with the ID. All tickets can
be purchased at the Little Theatre box office before each show.
For more information or a list of films call the Skalny Center at 585-275-9898.
The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue
November 23, 3:00 pm
Piano Recital
by Zora Mihailovich
Romantic European and contemporary American music played by a world acclaimed
Serbian pianist from Belgrade, Zora Mihailovich. At present, Ms. Mihailovich
is an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Rochester College Music
Department. As a Steinway Artist, she gives master classes in Europe and
the U.S.
Ms. Mihailovich has performed in recital and as orchestral soloist in
major European and North American centers such as London’s Wigmore
Hall and Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Brussels’
Conservatoire Royal. She has collaborated with singers Giuseppe di Stefano,
Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda and Anna Moffo.
Strong Auditorium, lower level
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, UR
Free and open to the public
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