January; 2007
Issue
35
In This
Issue:
* MLK Day in Rzeszow
* U.S. Foreign Policy
* "Jingle Bells" Concert
* Citizen King
* Anthology of American Poetry
* New E-journal
Martin Luther King Day in Rzeszow
To highlight Dr. Martin Luther King Day the Consulate is planning a series of events in cooperation with the School of Computer Science and Management in Rzeszow. On January 18-19 the following events will be organized at the premises of the school:
Prof. Creighton will also lecture at the Department of English studies of Rzeszow University on January 19. For more details, please contact the department at Al. Rejtana 16 B, tel: 017 872 1214.
Lecture on U.S. Foreign Policy
As a result of US Consulate General cooperation with one of Poland's leading business schools, Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu - National-Louis University, Consul Duncan Walker, responsible for political and economic affairs in the Consulate will give a lecture on ”US Foreign Policy after the last Congressional Elections; a new path?” to students of several faculties of that school. The lecture will be held on Thursday January 11 at 11:30.
The U.S. Consulate General together with the Krakow Opera invite Krakow music lovers to the New Year Gala Concert on January 14 and 15 at Juliusz Slowacki Theatre at 18:30, Pl Sw. Ducha 1.
The Krakow Opera Orchestra and Choir conducted by Barry Epperley, an American conductor from Tulsa, Oklahoma will perform with two other American artists: pianist Larry Dalton and jazz and musical singer Booker Gillespie.
The program of the concert includes American Christmas hits and carols such as Jingle Bells, Carol of the Bells, The First Noel, O Little Town of Bethlehem, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In and Holy Night alongside Gounod's Ave Maria and the ballet suite from Piotr Tschaikovsky's "The Nutcracker".
More information: http://www.opera.krakow.pl/index_inf.php?id=145
To celebrate Martin Luther King Day U.S. Consulate in Krakow invites you for a film "Citizen King" that will be shown on January 17th at 2:30 p.m. at Stolarska 9 in Krakow. There are no tickets but an advance telephone reservation is necessary. If you are interested please call 012 424 51 38.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used boycotts, marches, and other forms of nonviolent protest to demand equal treatment under the law and an end to racial prejudice. A high point of this civil rights movement came on August 28, 1963, when more than 200,000 people of all races gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to hear King say: "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveholders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood....I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
The world was shocked when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Ever since, special memorial services have marked his birthday on January 15. By vote of Congress, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Dr. King's honor.
New Anthology of the Contemporary American Poetry
Biuro Literackie in Wroclaw has recently published the anthology of contemporary American poetry "O krok od nich" containing poems of 10 American poets: Charles Reznikoff, E. E. Cummings, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, August Kleinzahler as well as bibliographic and biographic information and 30 pages of critical texts. The book has been considered by the literary critics to be one of the most exciting anthologies of foreign poetry published in Poland. All the poems were translated by Piotr Sommer , one of the most prominent Polish translators of contemporary Anglo-American literature. He included the translations done over the period of a couple of decades, wrote final comments for the anthology and chose illustrations by his friend Jane Freilicher.
The publishing of the book was sponsored by the City of Wroclaw, The US Diplomatic Mission in Poland, The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City Library in Wroclaw.
E-journal: Transforming the Culture of Corruption
According to the World Bank, corruption can generally be described as the abuse of public power for private benefit. Types of corruption include grand corruption, which involves corruption that pervades the highest level of national government, to petty corruption, the exchange of very small amounts of money or the granting of minor favors by those in minor positions. Regardless of the scope of the corruption, such acts undermine the development of civil society and exacerbate poverty, especially when public resources that would have been used to finance people's aspirations for a better life are mismanaged or abused by public officials.
In recent years, through a series of international agreements, a global framework for combating corruption has begun to emerge. Individual countries can now make their anticorruption efforts more effective by vigorously implementing anticorruption measures and relying on international cooperation to support them. This issue of eJournal USA highlights the important roles that the public sector, private sector, and nongovernmental organizations play in eradicating corruption worldwide.
The journal is available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/1206/ijde/ijde1206.htm
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