Events
2012
March
March 1
Movie Night #4: Chłopaki nie płaczą (Boys Don’t Cry), 7:00PM, Carr Hall 404
March 3-4
Polish Universities Fair at UofT (Hart House)
March 8
Public Lecture: Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska. On Tour in Poland and America, 6:00PM, Carr Hall, Father Madden Hall, 100 St. Joseph St.
March 18
The Polish Students’ Association at the University of Toronto
celebrates its 60th birthday and presents: “Spring Soirée: A Concert for
Polish Studies” – a fundraising event for the Council for Support
of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto. John Paul II Polish Cultural Centre, 4300 Cawthra Road, Mississauga
http://psa.sa.utoronto.ca/
February
February 3-29
Exhibition THE PHENOMENON OF “SOLIDARITY”, at the Munk School of Global Affairs UofT, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto
February 29
Professor M. Tarnawsky’s “Cossack Film Series”: Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword), 7:00 PM, Brennan Hall, room 200 (Sam Sorbara Auditorium)
2011
December 6
Christmas Eve Party
Time: 6:00
Place: Centre for International Experience lobby
November 29
Andrzejki / St. Andrew's Eve
Time: 7:00
Place: Slavic Department Lounge Room (Alumni Hall, 4th floor)
PSA Pub Night
Time: 9:30
(for details visit: psa.sa.utoronto.ca)
November 17
Film Screening #3:
"Beats of Freedom"
Place: Carr Hall 403
For details visit: psa.sa.utoronto.ca
November 3
Film Screening #2:
"The Way Back"
Place: Carr Hall 403
For details visit: psa.sa.utoronto.ca
October 27
Film Screening #1:
"Body"
Time: 7:00
Place: Carr Hall 403
For details visit: psa.sa.utoronto.ca
September 24
International symposium
"Czesław Miłosz: Multiple Worlds, Game of Forms"
Please see below for the full program
Symposium Program:
9:00 Coffee
9:15 Opening remarks
Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto), Stanisław Latek (Polish
Institute of Arts and Sciences, Canada)
9:30–10:15 Miłosz, the Public Figure
Ryszard Nycz (Jagiellonian University), "Czesław Miłosz:
Twentieth-century Poet in the Public Realm."
10:15–10:40 Coffee break and performance
Artistic Conceptualization: Antje Budde (UC Drama and Centre for
Comparative Literature, UofT), Teresa Sorska-Rybarczyk (Eurodeco
Planning Consultants), Tamara Trojanowska (UC Drama and Slavic
Department)
Director: Antje Budde
Performers: Alex Baczynskyj, Alexandra Dąbrowski, Kevin Kashani, Polly
Phokeev
Stage Manager: Una Ruud
Technical Assistance: Doug Hamilton
10:40–12:40 Miłosz, the Versatile Thinker
Kris Van Heuckelom (Leuven Catholic University), "Czesław Miłosz:
Between Pastiche and Confession."
Marek Zaleski (Institute of Literary Research, "Polish Institute of
Arts and Sciences), "Miłosz: See Under Love."
Włodzimierz Krysiński (University of Montreal), "Czesław Miłosz and the
So-called Lyrical 'I' in Modern Poetry."
12:40–2:00 Lunch break
2:00–4:00 Miłosz in Contexts
Bożena Karwowska (University of British Columbia), "Reading Miłosz in
Exile." Małgorzata Smorąg-Goldberg (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne),
"In the Mirror of Zygmunt Hertz, or the Epistolary Alliance of Two
Dissidences. Czesław Miłosz and the 'Stance' of Kultura." Marie
Bouvard (University of Bordeaux 3), "'And Greece/Who Remembers Here.'
America in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz (1945-1950)".
4:00-6:00 Dinner break
6:00 Poetry Evening with Piotr Sommer
Organizers
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of
Toronto
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences,Canada
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Poland.
September 26
"Where American Poetry Ended Up and How Polish Poetry Started Again"
A Public Lecture by Piotr Sommer, Polish Poet
Please click to access the brochure with details
September 29
The University of St. Michael’s College
in the University of Toronto
is pleased to announce a
Public Lecture
The Philosophy of the Human Person and Human Rights
in the Thought of Karol Wojtyła/ John Paul II
by
Alfred Marek Wierzbicki
Director of the John Paul II Institute
at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
September 29, 2011 at 4:00, reception to follow
Charbonnel Lounge
81. St. Mary's Street
March
Fundacja im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kanadzie
/The Adam Mickiewicz Foundation in Canada/
and
Polish Language and Literature Program
at the University of Toronto
are sponsoring a lecture
Mieczysław B. Biskupski
Hollywood’s Portrayal of Poland
Thursday, March 24, 2011, at 7 p.m.
University of St. Michael’s College
121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
Alumni Hall, Room 400
Prof. Biskupski is holder of the Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State University and author of the recently published book Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939–1945
2010
November:
An evening with Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most popular and highly esteemed (by both
critics and the reading public) writers in contemporary Poland, a
winner of prestigious literary awards, including Polish Publishers’
Association and Koscielski Awards, and the 2008 ‘Nike’ for her novel
‘Runners’.
Monday, November 23, 6pm
Charbonelle Lounge, 81 St. Mary St.
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Spotkanie z profesor Marią Kornatowską (Polska
Szkoła Filmowa)
Dyskusja o współczesnym polskim kinie.
Monday, November 22, 6pm
Charbonelle Lounge, 81 St. Mary St.
April
Polish Language and Literature Program's Open House for the Polish High Schools
2009
November
"Czego nowoczesny poeta szuka w teatrze?
Bialoszewski i Herbert."
Wykład Prof. Jacka Kopcińskiego
(IBL PAN, Uniwersytet im. Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie)
November 19-21
International Conference
"After the wall was Over: Performing the New Europe"
Organized by Profs. Pia Kleber and Tamara Trojanowska and hosted by
University College Drama Program, the conference gathered international
scholars and artists from Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Scotland,
Sweden, and the United States. It celebrated the 20th anniversary of
the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe and critically assessed the
consequences of this monumental change through discussions about
theatre and performing arts. The conference was accompanied by an
exhibition, The Decade of Solidarity, organized by the
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, and featured a photo
exhibit in the Consulate General of the Republic of Germany. The
organizers also presented a new documentary, Up Against the Wall,
by Eileen Thalenberg and hosted the director at the screening.
