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the yellow ticket 2018Photo: Chris Randle Fall 2018 EventsSeptember 11, 4 pm November 9–11 Lecture. “Poland, the EU, and Illiberal Democracy.” Krzysztof Śmiszek, 25th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. For films and times, human rights lawyer, activist, and managing editor of The see annarborpolonia.org/polish-film-festival. Sponsor: Polish

K r Anti-Discrimination Law Review. Co-sponsors: Center for Cultural Fund - Ann Arbor. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty. z y s European Studies, CREES, International Policy Center, z t November 12, 7 pm o Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Weiser f Film, Performance, Q&A. The Yellow Ticket (Der Gelbe Schein). Ś Center for Europe & Eurasia. 1010 Weiser Hall. m

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e September 19, 5 pm by klezmer composer Alicia Svigals, violin, and Marilyn Lerner, piano. k Panel. “Staging Unrest: Performance in Times of Crisis.” Ticket information at michtheater.org. Co-sponsors: Frankel Center Moderator: Teresa Kovacs, Erwin-Schrödinger- for Judaic Studies, JCC Ann Arbor. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty. Fellow, U-M. Panelists: Night and Day directors November 16, 4 pm Malcolm Tulip and Dominika Knapik, designers Panel and Recital. “Poland’s Centennial: Vince Mountain and Wolfgang Macher, and cast members. An Evening of Reflection and Celebration.” Co-sponsors: Adam Mickiewicz Institute; U-M’s Center for World Paul Brykczyński (PhD History ‘13) will Performance Studies, Department of Theatre & Drama. Newman

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Lecture. “LGBTQ Rights in Poland and EU: Legal and Social Perspective.” Slavic Languages and Literatures and b e n g Krzysztof Śmiszek. Co-sponsors: Donia Human Rights Center, Weiser Comparative Literature, U-M) will take us on t s o Center for Europe & Eurasia. 110 Weiser Hall. a tour of the Młoda Polska literary movement; n and Matthew Bengtson (assistant professor of October 4–14 music, U-M) will bring to life the music of pianist, composer, Polish Dance Theater Performances. Night and Day by Charles Mee, and statesman Ignacy Paderewski. 1010 Weiser Hall. performed by AST National Academy of the Arts, Kraków. Malcolm Tulip and Dominika Knapik, directors. For ticket information: Winter 2019 734.764.2538. Co-sponsors: U-M’s Department of Theatre & Drama; Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Goethe-Institut Chicago. Arthur Miller February 24, 4 pm Theatre, Walgreen Drama Center, 1226 Murfin. Concert. Karol Szymanowski Masterworks for Violin & Piano. Blanka Bednarz, October 15, 5:30 pm violin; Matthew Bengtson, piano.

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Graduate Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Ian Bratcher (PhD Sociology) received a Copernicus Fellowship in Polish (2017-18): Nora Dolliver, MA REES/ Summer Grant and Rackham International Research Award Faculty MSI Library & Information Science for his dissertation research, and presented the paper NewsMatthew Bengtson (Music, Theatre & Dance) and Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) “National Mythology as Dualistic Structure: Sexual violinist Blanka Bednarz performed last July at the Fellowship in Polish (2018): Emily Lerner, BA Minorities and the Struggle for National Identity in Karol Szymanowski Museum in Zakopane and in the International Studies Poland” at the annual meeting of the American Biała Sala, Poznań. These concerts follow the release Sociological Association. Copernicus Summer Grants (2018): Ian Bratcher, of a recording on Musica Omnia of Szymanowski PhD Sociology; Nora Dolliver, MA REES/MSI Library Nora Dolliver (MA REES/MSI Library & works as violin/piano duos. & Information Science; Alexander Wegrzyn, BA Information Science) interned in the Anna Muller (History, UM-Dearborn) published If the International Studies/Polish/Spanish; Maryellen education department at POLIN Walls Could Talk: Women Political Prisoners in Stalinist Zbrozek, BS Ecology, Evolution, & Biodiversity and assisted with the Meeting Poland, 1945-1956 (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Point summer program, which Amelia Kulesa-Konopka Fellowship (2018): two short articles about the WWII Museum in Gdańsk, brought together students and Michael Keller, BA Political Science one in Polish and one in English. faculty from Poland, Ukraine, N John J. Swiderski Fellowship (2018): Germany, and Israel to discuss the o e r Ewa Pasek (Slavic) contributed a chapter in Bilingual r a D o l l i v Elizabeth Lawrence, BA LSA March Events of 1968 in Poland. She and Bicultural. Speaking Polish in North America, edited worked with faculty prior to the program to by K. Zechenter. She was elected President of the North Excellence in Polish Language Award (2017-18): help them develop materials and plan workshops. American Association of Teachers of Polish this past Michael Lichomski, BS Neuroscience Wojciech Owczarek (PhD History) continues to research February and looks forward to expanding the scope Copernicus Polish Language Scholarships (2017-18): the early 20th century with a paper on the decline of her professional engagement by continuing to Lindsay Barnett, BA History/Political Science; of political conservatism in Austro-Hungarian Galicia serve the community of Polish language teachers in Alexander Dow, BA LSA; Emily Lerner, BA International in the decades preceding the First World War. His North America. Studies; Emily Litynski, BA LSA; Hope O’Neill, BA recent work, inspired by the 100th anniversary of Polish Geneviève Zubrzycki (Sociology) was this year’s LSA; Victoria Peruski, BS Biopsychology, Cognition, independence, explores the relationship between the recipient of the Polish Studies Association’s Aquila & Neuroscience; Izabella Puchalski, BS Biopsychology, Kraków conservatives’ conceptions of nationality and Polonica Prize for Best Article for her piece “Nationalism, Cognition, & Neuroscience; Chayne Rimkus, BA the nation and their outlook on the question of Polish ‘Philosemitism’ and Symbolic Boundary-Making in Linguistics; Laura Scerbak, BA LSA; Madeline Topor, independence. Contemporary Poland,” published in Comparative Studies BA Anthropology; Kevin Turaczy, BSE Chemical in Society and History (2016). Her book Beheading the Engineering; Emily Webber, BA LSA; Alexander Alumni Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec Wegrzyn, BA International Studies/Polish/Spanish Paulina Duda (PhD Slavic ‘16) continues to teach at (2016) won the John Porter Book Award from the Congratulations to graduates who earned bachelor’s Duke University and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Canadian Sociological Association. degrees in Polish from the Department of Slavic Information Technology in Warsaw. She published two Languages and Literatures: David Cichocki and articles—one in Studies in Eastern European Cinema and Students Adrianna Ryba. the other in EKRANy—and presented a paper titled Copernicus Fellowship for Graduate Students in Polish Alena Aniskiewicz (PhD Slavic) taught the “Aestheticizing the Poor: People on the Margins in Studies (2017-18): Nora Dolliver, MA REES/MSI Library course “The Stories That We Tell: Memory, Narrative, Communist Poland through the Lens of Krystyna & Information Science Genre” in the English Department and presented Gryczełowska” at ASEEES in 2017. Copernicus Fellowship for Incoming Graduate Students a paper at the Midwest Slavic Conference entitled Mary Kathleen “Kate” Wroblewski (BA History ‘03, MA (2018-19): Han Xu, PhD History “‘If Mickiewicz was alive today, he’d be a good Education ‘11, PhD History ‘18) received her PhD in the rhymer’: Performing Genre and National Credibility Department of History with a dissertation entitled: in Polish Hip-Hop.” She is working on completing polish club “Migration to the Self: Education, Political Economy, and her dissertation, “Cultural Remix: Polish Hip-Hop Religious Authority in Polish Communities, 1880-1929.” and the Sampling of Heritage,” with support from She has accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. Missouri State University beginning this fall.

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he 2017-18 academic year was a busy one for CPPS. We presented CPPS continues to strengthen ties with partner institutions in Poland lectures by Brian Porter-Szűcs on populism and Magdalena by sponsoring faculty and student initiatives with POLIN Museum of the Dembińska on Silesian regionalism, co-sponsored a lecture by History of Polish Jews, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the University Daniel Fried, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, and screened of Warsaw. As always, we support our students by awarding fellowships TAgnieszka Holland’s latest film, Pokot, at the Michigan Theater. to study the Polish language and to travel to Poland for research and internships. In 2017-18, CPPS sponsored 13 scholarships In 2018-19 our academic year programming will focus on the 100th for students studying Polish at U-M. Thanks to your anniversary of the recreation of the Polish state and take stock of donations, we will continue to expand this program the current political situation in Poland. In September, we will host that supports undergraduate language learning Dr. Krzysztof Śmiszek, Polish human rights lawyer, activist, and managing in partnership with the Slavic department. editor of The Anti-Discrimination Law Review, as the first Weiser Center

for Europe and Eurasia Distinguished Fellow. We are thrilled to have We look forward to the 2018-19 academic year. G

e Barbara Nowacka, feminist, politician, and progressive activist, give the n Thank you for your continued support! e v i Annual Copernicus Lecture on October 15th. Last but not least, we will è v e Z celebrate Poland’s centennial on November 16th with an evening of Geneviève Zubrzycki, Director u b r z y reflection and music, followed by a reception. In addition to this rich Professor of Sociology c k i program, we are co-hosting a theater residency with the Department of Theatre and Drama, the 25th Annual Polish Film Festival with the To make a donation online, visit: ii.umich.edu/cpps/donate Polish Cultural Fund - Ann Arbor, and plans are underway to present For more information about how to support Polish studies a series of events on Zakopane in the winter semester. Please take and the Copernicus Endowment, contact [email protected] note of these important dates on our calendar. or 734.647.2237.

2017 Donors to the Copernicus Endowment

Gifts from $1,000-10,000 Elisa Ostafin & Ronald Gibala & Maria Rostafinski Gifts in Memory of he Copernicus Program in Polish Sophie H. Gerisch Trust Hossein Keshtkar Janice Grichor Joan T. Rychter Gladys Bobak Zielinski & Studies (CPPS) at the University of The Estate of Marysia Ostafin & Margaret A. Gray-Kurczynski Lois D. & Raymond Rzepka Teresa DeMonte Bobak Michigan was established in 2014 Christina C. Kanabrodzki W. George Smillie Margery & Jay Haite Patricia M. & David Shockley Wladyslaw Hodakowski T Patricia Kenner Mark H. Ostrowski Richard & Ngampit Edward F. Sienkowski Marya & Maryan Hubert after 40 years of activity and programs Leonard Kujawa Ewa & Zbigniew Pasek Jagacinski Walker Siewiorek Eduardo Jardim offered by the Nicolaus Copernicus Andrzej & Malgorzata Rojek Louis & Eugenia Pocalujka Chet & Jane Janik Judith Smutek Frieda Jardim Endowment. The endowment and a Michael J. Stando Mary Ann Randall Squire Jaros Ken & Julie Sobolewski Cass S. & Marjorie Jaros Polish program were launched in 1973 Peter Swiecicki Daniel P. & Karon Siewiorek Barbara J. Jarzembski & Elinore & R. Thomas Marie J. Kladzyk in cooperation with students, faculty, Edward L. Vandenberg & Bernard & Leanne Tresnowski Sylvia C. Remell Sommerfeld Helena Kulinska, and the Polish Americans of Michigan Benita Kaimowitz Frank & Anna Ladak Gary E. & Christine K. Jacqueline K. Stefko Stephanie Zaleski, & who contributed generously with their Tymowski Kapanowski Ronald & Georgina Styka Lt. Col. Oleg Z. Zaleski Gifts from $200-999 Anita Weinraub Paul & Leslie Karas Patrick & Juanita Suchy Thaddeus W. Kurczynski time, energy, and financial assistance. Charles Adamek Patricia B. & Charles F. Yocum Michael D. Kennedy Walter & Joan Szczechowski Victoria Lewicki Vandenberg CPPS continues the tradition today by Julian P. Adams Leonard J. Zontek James Kerwin Jeffrey Tomaszewski Witold & Wanda Malecki supporting faculty, programs, and Theodore G. & Geneviève Zubrzycki & Pamela Z. Kladzyk Michael Traison Peter A. & Eleanor H. Ostafin student fellowships in Polish studies. Carolann Baldyga Paul Johnson Thomas D. Kladzyk Josephine A. Wierzbowska Julia & Joseph Styka It also organizes the Annual Copernicus John & Bogdana Carpenter Walter Kraszewski Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Witecki Lucjan & Eugenia Lecture—established in 1980—which Ryszard & Robin Chetkowski Gifts from $1-199 Richard & Deborah Mark A. Wlosowicz Veronica Zlotkowski brings prominent academic, cultural, Andrzej & Krystyna Dolata David Althoen Krolikowski Rosemary K. Wolock Agata Dow Gary & Cheryl Arendoski Robert L. Kuczkowski Charles & Susan Wrzesinski 2017 Donors to the and political figures to campus to Patricia & Ronald Grzybowski Valerie & Frank Bernacki Michael & Linda Kurpinski Roger Wykes II Amelia Kulesa Konopka advance a deeper understanding of Robert Hodakowski & Lisa Bobak Donald John Lachowicz Leon Wyszewianski Endowment Poland’s people, culture, and history, Susan Angelastro Lawrence & Mary Chadzynski Dr. Evelyn Iversen Todd & Melinda Lanski Corporations, Foundations, as well as its growing influence in world Tomasz & Kasia Kietlinski Sylvia Meloche Chang Leona Konpka Murdoch Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Liatsos & Organizations academics, arts, and affairs. Maria & John Kontak Norman & Claudia James Litwin (including matching gifts) Marian J. Krzyzowski Chmielewski Karen Majewski American Electric Power Annette M. Marcinkoski Beverly & Reginald Ciokajlo Steering Committee Marc M. Murawski Company, Columbus, OH Piotr Michałowski & John Connelly Geneviève Zubrzycki, Program Director Susan F. Nash Consumer Energy Foundation Deanna Relyea Carol Darby Marysia Ostafin, Executive Director Raymond N. Okonski Holiday Lighting Service, Inc. Hendrik G. Meijer Robin Gates Elliott Piotr Michałowski Steve Piatek John Hancock Financial Karin Muraszko Ralph F. Frankowski Anna Muller Joseph Placek White Eagles Society–PRCUA, Jonathon Niemczak Elaine K. Gazda Benjamin Paloff Wally & Paula Rapalus Lansing, MI Ewa Pasek Brian Porter-Szűcs

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