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Polish Study Courses

International Relations 180 Forging the Future, Imagining the Past: Festivals and Commemorations in Modern Europe @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Examines the phenomenon of publicly celebrated festivals and commemorations and their impact on national development in modern Europe-East as well as West-since the French Revolution. Topics include memory and forgetting; the "invention of tradition"; the popularization of cult figures and collective heroes; the erection and destruction of monuments; and the reconfiguring of time and space - visual announcing course bears photo of the unveiling of the Grunwald statue in Krakow in 1910.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: P.M. Dabrowski

Faculty

Cook, Linda J. - Professor of Political Science, Brown University@

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985
Phone: (401) 863-2505 / Fax: (401) 863-7018 / E-Mail: Linda_Cook@brown.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Left Parties and Social Policy in Post-Communist Europe and Russia
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS

• "The Return of the Left and its Impact on the Welfare State in Poland, Hungary, and Russia;" with M. Orenstien in Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe Cook et al. (eds.), Westview, 1999
• "Conclusion: Workers in Post-Communist Poland, Russia, and Ukraine," in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 28 #1, 115-119, 1995

Dabrowski, Patrice M. Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University @

Ph.D., Harvard, 2001
Phone: (401) 863-9739 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Patrice_Dabrowski@brown.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Eastern Europe and its history; Poland, Russia, and Polish-Russian relations; and nationalism and socialism.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
AWARDS

• Recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation's 2002 Metchie J. E. Budka Award for outstanding scholarly work in Polish History

BOOKS

• Reinventing Poland: Commemorations and the Shaping of the Modern Nation, 1879–1914, Indiana University Press, 2004
• Hutsul Highlanders and the 'Discovery' of the Galician Borderlands Watson Institute workshop, Feb. 11, 2004

PRESENTATIONS

• Discovering the Carpathians: The Historical Imagin-ing and Reshaping of Alphine Borderlands, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Dec. 2003
• Shaping the Alpine Borderlands; The Towarzystwo Przyjaciól Huculszczyzny. Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences, Boston, June 2004

BOOK REVIEWS

• Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945. by Shimon Redlich,Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, in Nationality Papers 31, #3, 2003.

COURSES

• Forging the Future, Imagining the Past: Festivals and Commemorations in Modern Europe
• History of 20th Century Eastern Europe

Levitsky, Alexander - Professor of Slavic Languages, Brown University @

Ph.D., University of Michigan, l977
Phone: (401) 863-2689 / Fax: (401) 863-7330 / E-Mail: Alexander_Levitsky@Brown.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: Eighteenth-Century and Modern Russian literature, Slavic Baroque literature
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PRESENTATIONS

• "Seventeenth-century Religious Verse in Russia and Poland: Cross-National Literary Contacts," a paper read at the Second International Conference on Eighteenth-Century Russia at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England on July 22, l98l.
• "Russian-Polish 17th-c. literary contacts," AATSEEL Conf, Washington, DC., Dec. 30, l988
• "Role of Individual in 17th and 18-c. literature in Russia & Poland," International Conference sponspored by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, Washington, DC June 15, 1990

META-FACULTY - Faculty who have studied and/or taught at Polish institutions of higher education

Chodobski, Adam Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, Brown University @

Ph.D., Poland, 1986
Phone: 444-8156 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Adam_Chodobski@Brown.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: Neuropeptides, growth factors, and cytokines in the context of CNS disorders.