PAHA registration will be located on the sixth floor of the Palmer House
Hilton, near the elevators.
Thursday, January 2
5:30–10:00 p.m. Palmer House, Private Dining Room 8. Board meeting
followed by membership meeting
Friday January 3
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Parlor C.
Session 1. The Origins of the Polish American Historical Association:
A Look Back Sixty Years
1:00–3:00 p.m. Palmer House, Parlor C.
Session 2. The Memoir as History: Writers Read and Discuss Their Work
3:00–5:00 p.m. Palmer House, Parlor C.
Session 3. Contemporary Immigration Issues in Chicago Polonia
3:30–5:30 p.m. Palmer House, Parlor D.
Session 4. Directions in American Polonia Cultural Studies
7:00–9:00 p.m. Consulate General of the Republic of Poland. Reception,
by invitation
Saturday January 4
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Parlor C.
Session 5. Polonia Online: Ethnicity and Cyberspace
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Parlor D.
Session 6. Themes in Polish American Historical Research
1:00–3:00 p.m. Palmer House, Parlor C.
Session 7. Poles and Their Neighbors: Interethnic Relations in Europe
and America
3:30–5:30 p.m. Palmer House, Parlor C.
Session 8. Pope John Paul II and His Impact on America and Polonia
7:00–9:00 p.m. Polish Museum of America. Annual awards dinner,
by invitation
Presiding: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Presidential Address: PAHA and the Study of the Polish
American Experience: A Brief and Tentative Reconnaissance Donald Pienkos,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
