POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 
Annual Meeting,
January 8-11, 1998

Westin Hotel, Seattle, Wash.
All sessions in Blakely Room unless otherwise noted

January 8 (Thursday)
Business Meeting
3-6 PM Board of Directors Meeting (Vashon Room 1)

7-9:00 PM General Membership Business Meeting

January 9 (Friday)
Registration 9-9:30 (San Juan Foyer)

Session 1 9:30-11:30
Images, Organizations, and Nationalism in Polonia

John Kromkowski, Catholic University of America, Chair and Commentator

"Narod and Okolica: The PRCUA, the PNA and the Making of Polish America,"
John Radzilowski, Arizona State University

"Choral Nationalism: The Polish Singers Alliance"
Stanislaus Blejwas, Central Connecticut State University

"Traces of Polish Vernacular Landscapes"
Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, CUNY


Session 2: 2:30-4:30 p.m. Polish Genealogical Society of America Roundtable

Thomas Gladsky, Chair
Panel: Dr. Paul Valasek, President, PGSA; Dorothy Pancoast, Head of Research,
PGSA; Stanley Schmidt, Past President, PGSA.
Comments and questions from the audience

January 10 (Saturday)
Registration 9-9:30 (San Juan Foyer)

Session 1 9:30-11:30
Whither Immigration History?

William J. Galush, Loyola University, Chicago, Chair

"Immigration since World War II: The Need for a New Paradigm"
Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati

"Migrants, Diasporas or Transnationals? What Are We Studying in Immigration
History?"
Donna Gabaccia, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

"Towards a Holistic View of Immigrant Life"
Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

John Bukowczyk, Wayne State University, Commentator

PAHA Awards Luncheon, 12:15-1:45 PM (Vashon Room)
Presiding: John Kromkowski, PAHA Executive Secretary,
Awards Presentations: William Galush, PAHA President


Session 2 2:30-4:30
Recent Writers and the New Ethnicity
Thomas Gladsky, Chair and Commentator

"Ethnicity and the Writings of Susan Campbell Bartoletti"
Thomas Napierkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

"Natalie Petesch's The Immigrant Train and Other Stories"
Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin, Superior

"Zofia Mierzynska: Comtemporary Polish Language Immigrant Literature"
Karen Majewski, St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake, Mich.

John Radzilowski, Arizona State University
"The Novel as History: Remember Me Dancing and Ethnic Farm Life"

January 11 (Sunday)

Session 1 8:30-10:30
"Educating Polonia"
Thomas Napierkowski, Chair

"Staffing and Curriculum in Early Parochial Education"
William Galush, Loyola University, Chicago

"Nationalism or Integration: Educating Polonia's Second Generation"
James Pula, Catholic University of America

Harriet Napierkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Commentator


Session 2: 11 AM-1 PM
"The Polish Church in America: A Century"

Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, SJ, College of the Holy Cross, Chair and Commentator

"The Beginning of Polish Independentism in the United States"
Rev. Sen. Casimir Grotnik, Archivist, Central Diocese of the Polish National
Catholic Church

"Polish Bishops in America: The Roman Catholic Church"
Daniel Buczek, Fairfield University, Emeritus

"Polish Bishops in America: The Polish National Catholic Church"
Theodore Zawistowski, Pennsylvania State University, Worthington, Scranton

"The Polish National Catholic Church and Ecumenicity: The Last Fifteen Years"
Rev. Czeslaw Kuliczkowski, Pastor, Good Shepherd PNCC Parish