Izabela Kalinowska is associate professor of cultural and film studies in the English Department at Stony Brook University. She works in the areas of Polish and Russian literatures and cinemas. She is the author of numerous articles dealing with issues of gender and nation in Polish and Russian cinema, including From Political Engagement to Politics of Abjection in Polish Author Cinema: The Case of Wojtek Smarzowski, From Orientalism to Surrealism: Wojciech Has interprets Jan Potocki, Russian Heritage Cinema and the Polish Question, Mothers and Lovers: Melodramatic Dimension of Polish-Soviet Friendship and many others.
February 22, 9.30 - 1.00pm. Faculty Room, University Club, IMU“Making Sense of Change: Poland 1918-2018,”, a roundtable discussion reflecting on 100 years of Poland's statehood. Introduced by Lee Feinstein (Dean, Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies and Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland) and with the participation of George Gasyna (U of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Benjamin Paloff (U of Michigan), Bozena Shallcross (U of Chicago), Tamara Trojanowska (U of Toronto), Karen Underhill (U of Illinois Chicago), and IU faculty members including Jack Bielasiak (Political Science), Jeffrey Isaac (Political Science), Bill Johnston (Comparative Literature), Padraic Kenney (History and International Studies), Joanna Nizynska (Slavic), Justyna Zayac (International Studies), and Dean Feinstein.
March 25, 8.00 - 9.00pm. Fine Arts Building 015 “Gdansk Railway Station” (Dworzec Gdanski, dir. Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, 2007), a documentary on the anti-semitic campaign of 1968.
Saturday September 15, 11 am-2 pm Bryan Park. Polish Studies Center Picnic.
The Polish Studies Center will host our annual opening party on September 15, 2018, and this year we have decided to bring back the PSC picnic at Bryan Park!
Please join us from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Woodlawn Shelter (located on the east side of the park near the pool) to kick-off the academic year and to welcome back Joanna Nizynska who will return to her post as Director of the Polish Studies Center after a sabbatical abroad in Warsaw.
Saturday November 10, 7pm - 11 pm IMU President’s Room. Polish Studies Center Independence Eve Party .
Tuesday, November 27, 1:30-3.00 p.m. SGIS 4067 "A Great Friendship in the Shadow of the Cold War? Indo-Polish Relations under Jawaharlal Nehru"
Wednesday Decemeber 12, 7pm - 11 pm IMU President’s Room. Polish Studies Center Annual Holiday Party .
Thursday January 26, 5:30-7:30 pm Global and International Studies Building 1100. The Wall Speaks: Voices of the Unheard A presentation and conversation with a Polish-American artist Wojtek Sawa. Sawa’s multi-media art installation addresses historical narratives and the exclusion of ethnic, religious and racial groups. Reception to follow.
Tuesday February 7, 6-8:00 p.m. IMU Dogwood Room. The Return (2014), a documentary film by Adam Zucker exploring the unique reality of young Poles discovering their Jewish identity in contemporary Poland. Screening followed by a conversation with the director. Reception to follow.
“Ebola from Brussels: The Right-Wing War on ‘Gender Ideology" in Poland and Beyond” Lecture by Agnieszka Graff, American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
April 28-29. “Polish Post-Soviet Postcolonialism? What we can learn from the South American case.” An International symposium with participants from Poland, UK, Hungary, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and US. Sponsored by Polish Studies Center and New Frontiers New Currents Conference Grant.
Thursday, December 8, 6:00 p.m. The President's Room at the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union. Annual Holiday Party.
Sunday, November 13, 3:00 p.m. IU Cinema. Contemporary Polish Cinema: Lives on the Margin: Papusza Directed by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, 2013.
Thursday, October 6 Polish Cultural Association Night "Poetry and Pierogi" featuring the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz.
Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 16 The Ryder Film Series and Polish Studies Center present: Cosmos directed by Andrzej Żuławski, 2015.
Thursday, January 21st, 6-8:00 p.m. “The Legacy of the Polish Underground State” Exhibit Opening. Lecture by Lukasz Kaminski, President of IPN. GISB Atrium.
Thursday, September 29, 6-7:30 p.m. GISB, Rom 0013. “Reshaping Culture in Translation: On Slavic Vulgarities” Lecture by Kamil Szafraniec, University of Giessen, Germany.