Symposium in New York on Polish Language at Columbia: History and Functionality

Please join us for a Symposium on Polish Language at Columbia: History and Functionality.

Program:

Welcome:

• Alan Timberlake, Director, East Central European Center, Columbia University
• Urszula Gacek, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York

History of the Polish Language at Columbia:

• Chair: Małgorzata Mazurek, Associate Professor of Polish Studies, Department of History, Columbia University
• Michael Mikoś, Professor and Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Polish Language and Literature at Columbia: Early History
• Adam Kola, Assistant Professor, Institute of Slavonic Philology Nicholaus Copernicus University, Manfred Kridl, East-Central European Emigration, and Slavic Studies (not only) at Columbia
• Anna Frajlich, Senior Lecturer of Polish, Columbia University, The Archival Shadows of the Polish Institute at Columbia

Functionality Panel discussion on professional achievements in different fields of research of those who studied Polish language at Columbia:

• Chair: Alan Timberlake, Professor of Slavic Languages; Director, East Central European Center, Columbia University
• Timothy Frye, Director, Harriman Institute, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, Columbia University
• William de Jong-Lambert, Associate Professor of History, Bronx Community College, CUNY
• Nancy Sinkoff, Chair and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Department of Jewish Studies Rutgers University
• David Tompkins, Associate Professor of History, Director of European Studies, Carleton College
• Ross Ufberg, Doctoral Candidate, translator from Polish, Columbia University
• Dustin Wayne Janes, Polymer Scientist

Reception will follow.

This program has been made possible with funds from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute of Poland, Department of Slavic Languages, East Central European Center, Harriman Institute of Columbia University, and Polish Cultural Institute New York.

For further information regarding this event, please contact Filip Tucek by sending email to:
ft2439@columbia.edu or by calling 212-854-4618.

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