8th Annual Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium

Kremlin-sponsored digital media, cultural centers, thinktanks, Cossacks paramilitary groupings aimed to form Pro-Russian-lobby in Belarus and push anti-western and anti-Ukrainian message. How efficient are they and what is the effective policy to counter them?

Anna Chodakiewicz-WelliszCommunication SpecialistMedia over Poland: The Missing Polish PerspectiveThe need for Polish public diplomacy and a professional PR coverage of Polish events abroad will be discussed in light of the recent PR crisis.

Peter J. ObstPoles in America Foundation, PhiladelphiaThe Polish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's FairA presentation on the contents, purpose and eventual fate of the Polish Pavilion at the 1939-40 "Building the World of Tomorrow" World's Fair in New York City. Speaker is conducting a continuing search for documents and artifacts from the pavilion.

Krystyna PiórkowskaWriterEnglish-Speaking Witnesses to Katyn. Recent ResearchThe latest research concerning the massacre of the Polish POWs perpetrated by the Soviets during WWII adds to the understanding of its political dimension.

Matthew O'BrienDirector of ResearchFederation for American Immigration ReformBack to the Future: Genocide Prevention in the Intermarium As the land between the Black and Baltic Seas finds itself squeezed between a sea of Middle Eastern migrants flooding a culturally anemic Europe and a Putin-driven resurgence in populist Pan-Slavism, could the genocidal events of World War II be repeated?

Dr. Marek ChodakiewiczProfessor of HistoryHead of the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish StudiesThe Soviets and March 1968: Antisemitism and AntizionismThe lecture will focus on the international aspect of the Anti-Jewish campaign organized by the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in March 1968 in the Polish People's Republic.