W dniach 21-22 maja 2018 roku odbyła się konferencja: American Ethnicity. Old and New Immigration Flows. Old and New Challenges.
Program of the Conference:
Monday, May 21st
10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Opening of the Conference
■ Prof. Paweł Laidler, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of International and Political
Studies of the Jagiellonian University
■ Walter Braunohler — US Consul General in Kraków
■ Prof. Anna Mazurkiewicz— President of the Polish American Historical
Association
10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Session I – Chair: Adam Walaszek (Jagiellonian University)
■ Walter Kamphoefner (A & M University, Texas), What’s New About
the Newest Immigration? A Historian’s Perspective
■ Jose Moya (Barnard College, Columbia University), From Exiles
to Immigrants: Cubans in the U.S., 1960-2017
■ David Gerber (SUNNY at Buffalo), Rethinking Agency: Rethinking
the Assumptions of the New Social History of Immigration
of the Late 20th Century
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch
1.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Session II – Chair: Sylvia Hahn (Universität Salzburg)
■ Anna Mazurkiewicz (Gdańsk University), Migration Crises and Interest
of a State. A Look at American Refugee Assistance Acts during the Cold War
■ James Pula (Purdue University), When Policy Meets Politics: An Analysis
of U.S. Immigration Issues, 1998-2018
■ Hartmut Keil (University Lepizig), The German Forty-Eighters: In Search
of an American Identity
3.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Coffee
4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Session III — Chair: Halina Parafianowicz (University of Białystok)
■ Elżbieta Goździak (Georgetown University), Central American Children
and Youth in the United States: Prospects for Integration
■ Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska (Jagiellonian University), Psychological
Processes Present in Migratory Experience of Children: Perspective
from Cartoons, Books and Movies
■ Joanna Kulpińska (Jagiellonian University), An Analysis of the Formation of
Migration Networks Based on Data from the Ellis Island Archives. A Case
Study of Strzyzow District
Tuesday, May 22nd
9.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.
Session III — Chair: Dorota Praszałowicz (Jagiellonian University)
■ Mary Erdmans (Case Western Reserve University) & Adrianna Smell
(Case Western Reserve University), Explaining U.S. Attitudes toward
Immigrants: Context Factors, Labor Market Position, and Ideology
■ Ewa Barczyk-Pease (University of Wisconsin - Milwauee), How Libraries
in the U.S. Help Maintain Polish Identity
■ Silvia Dapia (City University of New York), Changing Official History Through
Literature: The Case of Patagonian Immigration
11.30 a.m. – 12.00 noon Coffee break
12.00 noon – 2.00 p.m.
Session IV — Chair: Stanley Nadel (University of Portland, Salzburg
Program)
■ Babiński, Grzegorz (Jagiellonian University), „Change and Continuity
in the Process of Adaptation of Polish immigrants to American Society”
■ Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin - Milwauee), „Bolujmy, więc!: Polish
Americans and Bowling in Milwaukee”
■ Anna Fiń (Pedagogical University of Cracow), Emigration of Poles
to the United States: 1990-2015. A Comparative study
2.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. Lunch
3.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Session V — Chair: Neal Pease (University of Wisconsin–Milwauee)
■ Patrycja Błasiak (Jagielonian University), Sanctuary Movement during
the Presidency of Donald Trump
■ Mariusz Puchacz (University of Białystok), Immigration as a Source
of Diplomatic Troubles: The Case of „Picture Brides”
■ Vadzim Pauliuchuk (University of Białystok), Between the Hammer
and the Anvil. Emigration from the Polish Borderlands to the United States,
1921-1939
■ Piotr Szlaużys (University of Białystok), From Czarist Russia to the “Promised
Land”. Lithuanian Emigration to the United States
