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Skalny Lecture & Artist Series

The Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, in addition to the academic program, has also been running the Skalny Lecture and Artist Series, which include scholarly lectures, film series, professional conferences, and artistic presentations.

These events are open to the public and they keep Rochesterians well-informed about political, economic and cultural changes in post-communist Central Europe, while strengthening connections for Polish Americans with their historical legacies.

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”

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

List of Fall 2003 Events:

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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