The fourth year of post-Kościuszko Chair activities in Polish Studies at the Institute of World Politics: A Graduate School of National Security and International Affairs, in Washington, DC www.iwp.edu, was also the last. It pleases us to report that as of June 2008, the Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies is formally entrenched at IWP.
Throughout the academic year 2007-2008 we proceeded of course with business as usual. Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Professor of History and Academic Dean at IWP Read article. focused on a variety of projects regarding Polish affairs. As before, our work would be impossible without our institutional benefactors, including the American Institute for Polish Culture and the Tadeusz Ungar Foundation, and personal friends and relatives, including Lady Blanka Rosenstiel, Adam Bąk, Ava Polansky Bąk, Professor Iwo and Dr. Magdalena Pogonowski, John and Renata Niemczyk, Zdzisław and Zofia Zakrzewski, the Woś Family, and others.
We would also like to thank profoundly the multitude of friends of the Kościuszko Chair who have assisted in a multitude of ways in our work and peregrinations. Many would like to remain anonymous, but we would like to acknowledge Dr. Waldemar and Teresa Priebe (Houston, TX), Professor Maria Michejda (North Potomac, MD), Joanna Mieszko Wiorkiewicz of Berlin; Dr. Richard Tyndorf (Toronto); Mira Puaczowa (Polonia Bookstore, Chicago). Professor Lidia Filus (Northeastern Illinois University), Professor Christine Ciecierski (Northeastern Illinois University), Professor Ewa Thompson of Rice University, Professor (General) Ralph Clem (Florida International University), Professor Peter Stachura (University of Stirling), Professor John Radziłowski (University of Alaska Southeast), Professor Stan Wellisz (Columbia University), Professor John Micgiel (Columbia University), Professors Maria and Marian Pospieszalski (Charlottesville, VA), Captain Stefan Komar (New York), Dr. Marian Baginski (Chicago), Paweł Styrna (Chicago); and Poland’s Dr. Janusz Kurtyka, Dr. Jan Żaryn, Sebastian Bojemski, Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński, Jakub Brodacki, Dr. Sławomir Cenckiewicz, Dr. Piotr Gontarczyk, and many others.
Thanks are of course due to IWP’s staff who facilitated our activities, and in particular Jim Holmes (for overall supervision), Charles van Someren (web-site maintenance and editing), Dmitry Kulik (library), Chris Fulford (Library and research assistance), Lucie Adamski (donor relations), and, last but not least, Mallorie Lewis (life-saver).
AT IWP
A fully accredited graduate school, IWP’s hospitable institutional and intellectual ambiance gives wings to our teaching, researching, and writing on Polish issues. Dr. Chodakiewicz interweaved his classes, including Geography and Strategy, Russian Politics and Foreign Policy, and others, with Polish references. For example, Poland’s experience during the Second World War and its aftermath is a permanent feature in the seminar on Genocide and Genocide Prevention. Our Polish-American instructors Dr. John Lenczowski, Dr. David Klocek, Dr. Mark Lagon Przybyszewski, and General Walter Jajko routinely introduce Polish cultural and political issues in virtually all academic endeavors. And so do other IWP scholars, including Professors Juliana Pilon, Herbert Romerstein, Jack Tierney, Thomas Melady, and J. Michael Waller. 
For a fourth straight year in a row bi-weekly e-newsletter “Eurasia, etc.,” edited by Dr. Chodakiewicz, has featured prominently Polish-interest items. And so has his weekly feuilleton in the libertarian conservative It is the Highest Time!, posted at nczas.com; his Polish-language blog, at www.chodakiewicz.salon; a and the quarterly Glaukopis: Pismo Społeczno-historyczne (a Warsaw periodical devoted to historical and social issues), where he sits on the Advisory Board (2003-now).
MEDIA AND COMMUNITY COOPERATION
The Kościuszko Chair is always open to cooperation with the media and the Polonia. Thus, Dr. Chodakiewicz has provided historical, political, and cultural analysis on Poland, the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, and the world to various print, TV, and broadcasting outlets. The latter include Radio Vatican; Adam Ocytko’s Wietrzne Radio-Kurier; Dariusz Budzik’s show on Radio 1490AM, PAC/KPA (WPNA); Lucja Sliwa’s “Open Microphone” on 1490AM WPNA; and Marek Rzepkowski’s syndicated radio show “America Without Rose-Colored Glasses”
in Chicago and New York.
Among print journalists the Kościuszko Chair has cooperated with Javier Méndez of El Mercurio newspaper (Santiago, Chile); Alex Strozynski of the New York Sun, and the New York Post, (in particular because of his forthcoming book on Kościuszko); Ewa Dybioch of Plus Magazine: Journal of Polish American Affairs; Andrzej Mikolajczyk of expat.com who works for Radio Czuma and freelances for the Polish Press Agency (PAP); and Joe Poprzeczny of WA Business News in Perth, Australia. We have also established friendly relations with the following New Yorkers: Marek Tomaszewski, publisher of Polski Dzień, and Jacek Kunikowski of on-line services bazarynka.com and polishclassifieds.com; as well as two TV journalists: Gabryela Komarnicka and Janusz Jóźwiak.
Dr. Chodakiewicz further consulted for Chris Swider’s Opus 27 Productions of “Children in Exile” documentary on the Gulag (2007) and for Piotr Uzarowicz’s Goat Hill, LLC, production company’s movie on the Katyn Forest Massacre (2008).
Moreover, Dr. Chodakiewicz cooperated with a number of Polish-American organizations, including Polish American Congress (New Jersey, DC Metropolitan, Downstate New York, Rhode Island, Northern Illinois, and Northern California divisions); Association of the Veterans of Polish Army (SWAP) in New York and Northern Illinois; and the Siberian Exiles Association in Chicago. He continued to serve as a lone Polish Christian voice at the US Holocaust Memorial Council.
ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT
During the 2007-2008 academic year Dr. Chodakiewicz lectured at a number of venues and delivered several scholarly papers at conferences relating to Polish studies.
Dr. Chodakiewicz traveled extensively to lecture about the affairs of IWP and the Kościuszko Chair. In October 2007, he spoke about “Polish Studies, American Culture,” at the panel on “Poland and Contemporary Europe,” to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the Polish-Slavic Center in New York, October 2007.
In January 2008, after one of his book was translated into the Polish, he toured Poland, at the invitation of the Institute of National Remembrance, lecturing on “After the Holocaust: Jewish-Polish Conflict in the Wake of World War II,” in Warsaw, Poland, IPN; Kielce, IPN; Wrocław, the University of Wrocław; Gdańsk, IPN; Carcow, IPN, Piwnica pod Jaszczurami; and other venues. He talked on the same topic in March 2008 at the Polish Army Veterans Association, in New York; at the Polonia Bookstore; Graduate College, Northern Illinois University; Polish American Congress, Northern Illinois Division and the Polish Army Veterans Association, Chicago; Holy Trinity Parish School, Chicago; and the Radio Maryja Center, Chicago, March 2008.
Earlier, in January 2008, Dr. Chodakiewicz lectured on “National Security and National Security Education: The Case of The Institute of World Politics,” at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and in February also on the same topic at Patrick Henry College, Purcellville, VA; and in March at the University Club of Chicago.
In February Dr. Chodakiewicz delivered a speech on “Genocide and Genocide Prevention,” at the Boren Forum, the Institute of International Education, Washington, DC. Afterward he talked about “Transformation: Continuity and Discontinuity in post-Soviet Europe between 1988 and 1993,” at the Department of International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, FL. In February he further lectured about “Poland in America's Crooked Mirror-The Case of Fear,” at the East Central European Center, Institute for the Study of Europe, Columbia University, New York; and, in March, on the same topic at the College Libertarians Club, University of Illinois at Chicago; and for the Kosciuszko Foundation, at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Further, also in March, Dr. Chodakiewicz spoke about “The American System and Ethnic Organizations,” at the Council of Polish Engineers in North America, Polish American Congress, New Jersey, Downstate New York, and Long Island Divisions leadership working meeting in Manhasset, NY.
In June Dr. Chodakiewicz took IWP students and interns for a guided tour of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He included in his commentary the Christian experience during the Second World War and its aftermath. In July Dr. Chodakiewicz gave an in-house lecture on “The Mongol Empire and Its Conquests,” which, of course, included the Mongol foray into Poland in the 13th century.
Last but not least, Dr. Chodakiewicz guest lectured on “Empires and Nations in History” in Professor Jack Tierney’s class “Twentieth Century Politics and Diplomacy: Case Studies in War and Peace.”
OUR ESTEEMED GUESTS
Once again, IWP’s Kościuszko Chair hosted a number of scholars, cultural figures, and leaders and leaders to be, many of them Polish or Polish-American. Some came to discuss Poland’s security issues or to seek assistance for her neighbors, Belorussia for example. Others were interested in IWP’s scholarship, expertise, or support in a variety of issues. Still others visited to support us in a number of ways, including through donations. We would like to acknowledge the pleasure of the company of Lady Blanka Rosenstiel, Ambassador Aldona Woś, Ambassador Victor Ashe, John Armstrong, Fr. Ian Boyd, Professor Henryk Głębocki, Professor Maria Michejda, Dr. Jan Żaryn, Dr. Tomasz Sommer, Kaziu Ujazdowski, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George Cholewczynski, Mr. and Mrs. John Niemczyk, Mr. and Mrs. Paweł Chudzicki, Dr. Marian Bagiński, Professor Dariusz Tołczyk, Professor Marian Pospieszalski, and many others.
Our guests, friends, families, students, interns, staff, and faculty have made the Kościuszko Chair a reality and a success here at IWP. Niech żyją!
PUBLICATIONS (FALL 2007-FALL 2008)
In print: Intermarium: The Chain of Memory, Interrupted: The Eastern Borderlands of the West, 1939-1947 and After (Washington, DC: The Institute of World Politics Press, forthcoming 2009)
Intelligence Requirements for the 21st Century: A New Mandate for an Assertive, Proactive Intelligence Community: The William J. Casey Conference Series on Intelligence, 2002-2003 (Washington, DC: The Institute of World Politics Press, forthcoming 2009)
“Polska dla Polakow!”: Antologia prasy narodowej pod niemiecka i sowiecka okupacja, 1939-1949 [“Poland for the Poles!”: An Anthology of the Nationalist Press during the Nazi and Soviet Occupations] (Warsaw: The Institute of National Remembrance Press, forthcoming 2008)
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“A Foreword: Poland’s Siberian Exiles,” in Slated for Extermination: American Poles and their Gulag Past
(forthcoming in 2009).
“Siberian Exile in Polish History,” in Oh Land of Siberia! Land Eternally Mournful: Polish Poetry from the Soviet Gulags, ed. by Halina Abłamowicz (forthcoming from the Edwin Mellen
Press, 2009).
In progress:
Egzekucja czy pogrom? Masakra w Pinsku, 3-4 kwietnia 1919 – Dokumenty i wspomnienia [An Execution or a pogrom? The Massacre in Pinsk, April 3-4, 1919]
Stalin’s Underground in Poland: The Polish Workers Party,
August 1941-January 1945
The National Armed Forces and Others: Poland’s Far Right in the Underground, 1939-1949
Scholarly Articles:
"Żydzi na Syberie! Sowiecka polityka wobec żydowskich „wrogów ludu” na okupowanych Kresach Wschodnich II RP, 1939-1943,” [Jews to Siberia! Soviet policy against the Jewish „enemies of the people” in the occupied Eastern Borderlands of Poland] Glaukopis, no. 11-12 (2008).
“Przypadek Lonka Skosowskiego czyli koniec żydowskich kolaborantów Gestapo,”[The case of Lonek Skosowski, or the end of the Jewish collaborators of the Gestapo] Glaukopis, no. 9-10 (2007-2008): 325-333.
"Kto zabił Piotra Jaroszewicza? O Henryku Skwarczyńskim słów parę,” [Who killed Piotr Jaroszewicz? A few words about Henryk Skawrczynski] Glaukopis, no. 9-10 (2007-2008): 437-439.
"Faszystowska operetka: Rzecz o kompromisie i dostosowaniu,” [A fascist operetta: About accommodation] Glaukopis, no. 9-10 (2007-2008): 398-419; a shorter version as “Faszystowska operetka,” Najwyższy Czas!, 29 September 2007, posted at www.nczas.com
"The Countess Against Barbarians,” Good News (2006-2007):
93-95; a longer version posted at www.iwp.edu ; and a Polish version in “Księżniczka i barbarzyńcy,” [A Princess and the barbarians] Tradycja: Pospolite Ruszenie [Warszawa] no. 3 (2007), a fragment posted at www.tradycja.info.pl
Journalistic articles:
"Gdy mniejszości się nie lubią: Żydzi kontra Murzyni,” [When the minorities dislike each other: Jews vs. Blacks] Najwyższy Czas,
15-22 August 2008
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"Kobiety rządzą światem?” Najwyższy Czas, [Women rule the world?] Najwyższy Czas!, 2-9 August 2008
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"Churchill z duchem czasów,” [Churchill in congruence with the spirit of the times] Najwyższy Czas!, 19-26 July 2008
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"Lustracja Obamy” [Vetting of Obama], Najwyższy Czas!,
5 July-12 June 2008.
"Rzymskie pozdrowienie,” [The Roman salute] Najwyższy Czas!, 21-28 June 2008
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"Made in Wałęsa,” Najwyższy Czas!, 14 June 2008
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"Żydzi na Sybir!” [Jews to Siberia!] Najwyższy Czas!,
7 June 2008
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"Kontrwywiadowcze zabawy,” [Counterintelligence games], Najwyższy Czas!, 31 May 2008
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"Z frontu sekspostepu,” [On the front of sex-progress], Najwyższy Czas!, 24 May 2008
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“Jest gejowo! Wynurzenia nastolatki,” [It’s gay! Reflections of a teenager] Najwyższy Czas!, 17 May 2008
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"Tupanie po Chicago,” [Roaming around Chicago] Najwyższy Czas!, 10 May 2008
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"Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna, nuda, seks...,” [God, Honor, Fatherland, boredom, sex] Najwyższy Czas!, 3 May 2008
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"Majowa jutrzenka dla neonacjonalistów?” [A dawn for nationalism in May?] Najwyższy Czas!, 26 April 2008
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“Muzeum: Jak Żydzi potrafią się zorganizować wokół Zagłady,” [The Museum: How the Jewish community organizes around the Holocuast] Najwyższy Czas!, 19 April 2008
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"Poland’s latest counterintelligence crisis in context,”
14 April 2008
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"Kultura moralna a kapitalizm,” [Moral culture and capitalism] Najwyższy Czas!, 12 April 2008
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“Wyzwania badawcze po Zagładzie,” [Research challenges after the Holocaust] Rzeczpospolita, Plus-Minus, 4-5 April 2008.
“Czemu czasem warto brać przykład z Żydów?” [Why is it worth to emulate the Jews?] Najwyższy Czas!, 5 April 2008
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"Wesołkowato w amerykańskiej szkole: Porn na lekcji,” [It’s gay at the American school: Porn in class] Najwyższy Czas!,
22-29 March 2008
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"Ankieta Chodakiewicza: Białe plamy w historii Polski,” [Chodakiewicz’s questionnaire: White spots in Poland’s history] Najwyższy Czas!, 22-29 March 2008
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"Seksnauka dla rewolucji,” [Sexscience for the revolution] Najwyższy Czas!, 15 March 2008
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“Polski marzec wymyslono na Kremlu,” [The Polish March was conceptualized on the Kremlin], Superexpress, 12 March 2008.
“Polska w krzywym zwierciadle Ameryki,” [Poland in America’s crooked mirror] Najwyższy Czas!, 8 March 2008
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“Restytucja mienia a prywatyzacja mienia,” [Property restitution and property reprivatization] Najwyższy Czas!, 1 March 2008 Read article.
“Części zamienne: Męski szowinistyczny spisek?” [Spare parts:
A male chauvinist plot?] Najwyższy Czas!, 23 February 2008 Read article
“Znów na Florydę (wschód),” [To Florida Again (the east)] Najwyższy Czas!, 16 February 2008
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“Znów na Florydę,” [To Florida Again] Najwyższy Czas!,
9 February 2008
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“Nie było zaplutych karłów reakcji, byli patrioci,” [There were no reactionary scum; they were patriots] Superexpress,
4 February 2008.
“Marnotrastwo z naszej kieszeni,” [Wasted funds from our own pockets] Najwyższy Czas!, 2 February 2008
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"Gross wyssany z palca,” [Gross contriving] Najwyższy Czas!,
26 January 2008
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"Agonia i kultura,” [Agony and culture] Najwyższy Czas!,
26 January 2008
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"Naucz się i zapomnij: USA kontra partyzantka,” [Learn and Forget: US against the guerrillas] Najwyższy Czas!,
19 January 2008
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"Buddyjska korespondencja,” [A Buddhist correspondence] Najwyższy Czas!, 12 January 2008
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"Liberalni zwycięscy afgańskiej wojny,” [The liberal victors of the Afghani War] Najwyższy Czas!, 5 January 2008
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"Mistrzostwo dyskursu, czyli precz z podatkami,” [The Championship of discoursing or down with taxes] Najwyższy Czas!, 29 December 2008
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“Święty Mikołaj istnieje! Dobroczynność najlepszych,” [Santa Claus exists! Philantrophy of the best] Najwyższy Czas!,
15 grudnia 2007
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“Kapitalizm to nie piractwo: własność intelektualna w Polsce i USA,” [Capitalism is not piracy: Intellectual property in Poland and USA] Najwyższy Czas! 8 December 2007
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“Ślub lesbijek i klasyfikacja homo-rasy, czyli chłopczycowe gody,” [A lesbian wedding] Najwyższy Czas! 1 December 2007
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"Najemnicy: Psy wojny,” [Mercenaries: Dogs of War] Najwyższy Czas! 24 November 2007
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“Współczesne kino,” [Contemporary Cinema] Najwyższy Czas!, 17 November 2007
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“O niepodległości,” [About Independence] Najwyższy Czas!, 10 November 2007
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"Ideologia pederastów: Z frontu Hominternu,” [Ideology of the pederasts: The Homintern Front] Najwyższy Czas!,
3 November 2007
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"Żałoba po amerykańsku,” [Mourning the American Way] Najwyższy Czas!, 27 October 2007
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"Wybory i Czarna Woda,” [Elections and Blackwater] Najwyższy Czas!, 20 October 2007
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"Will Poland’s Election Be a Referendum on De-Communization?” World Politics Review, 18 October 2007
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"Samuraj-mnich,” [A samurai-monk] Templum Novum, no. 5-6 (2007): 140-144; and a shorter version in Najwyższy Czas!,
13 October 2007
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"Sędziowska kontynuacja,” [The Continuity on the Bench] Najwyższy Czas!, 6 October 2007.
"Inwazja, wyzwolenie, okupacja,” [Invasion, liberation, occupation], Najwyższy Czas!, 22 September 2007
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"Kongo, ex-PRL i rocznicowo,” [Congo, ex-people’s republic, and an anniversary], Najwyższy Czas!, 15 September 2007
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“Iran’s Propaganda, Holocaust Revisionism, and Western Civilization,” World Politics Review, 6 September 2007
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