June; 2007
Issue 40
In This
Issue:
*Consul General
*American West Exhibit
*Library Conference
*Panel on Energy Policy
*Presentation on Beethoven
*Poetry Meeting
*"Does Poland Need the Missile Shield"
*E-journalUSA
Greetings
from the U.S. Consulate in Krakow!
May is a beautiful month here, and many visitors from the United States have had a chance to see Krakow at its best. We were delighted to host Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Maura Harty at the beginning of May. Ambassador Harty heads consular operations for the Department of State, and she had a chance to see our visa and American Citizen Service sections in action. The mayors of Meridian, Mississippi and Stamford, Connecticut from the US Conference of Mayors also visited Krakow. Former Washington DC police chief Chuck Ramsey and Chuck Wexler, Director of the Executive Police Research Forum were in Krakow and Rzeszow for a series of events with law enforcement and city officials. Finally, at the end of the month, David McCraw, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of the New York Times, was in Krakow to speak about libel laws and media access to government in a post 9-11 environment.
Ambassador Ashe and I visited Katowice earlier this month to participate in a conference on international investment organized by the American Chamber of Commerce. Certainly Katowice is doing a tremendous job in attracting new foreign firms to the region.
This has been a busy month for conferences
- the US Consulate supported two academic conferences held here in Krakow: The Legacy of the Holocaust Conference, organized by Jagiellonian University, the University of Northern Iowa and Texas A&M University, and a conference on US Foreign Policy organized by Jagiellonian University’s Institute of American Studies and the Polish Diaspora. It was wonderful to meet so many scholars and discuss the important issues relating to these conferences.
On the cultural side, we were very pleased that so many outstanding American artists were in the area this month. The US Consulate hosted Steve Berry, popular American author of thrillers such as The Templar Legacy. The Cultural Center in Katowice played host to pianist David Northington and a musical trio from the University of Connecticut. We also helped to sponsor two photographic exhibitions still on display. An exhibition of Man Ray’s photographs and visual work is currently open at the History of Photography Museum in Krakow. An exhibition of portraits of American writers by photographer Nancy Crampton can be seen at the Institute of American Studies on Krakow’s Rynek
Glowny 34. At the end of the month, I was delighted to be at the Pszczyna Castle Museum as honorary patron of a concert by the Akademos Quartet held to raise funds for a new grand piano for the Museum.
We have many exciting events coming up in June—please see our Spotlight for a list of these events and check our website!
Anne Hall, Consul General
A photo exhibition of American landscapes taken by the Polish-American photographer Wieslaw Pikul will be opened by Consul General Anne Hall at the Education Center of the Tatra National Park on Friday June 1 at 2:00pm. The exhibition, entitled “American West”, features breathtaking photographs taken in the western United States that show the diversity and beauty of the American western landscape. The exhibition will be on display in the Education Center (ul. Chalubinskiego 42a, Zakopane) of the park until the end of June.
Photographer Wieslaw Pikul
Conference "Diffusion and Dissemination of Ideas and Experiences: Issues of International Comparative Library Science" will take place on June 4 and 5 in Krakow. The conference is organized by Institute of Information and Library Science, Faculty of Management and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University in cooperation with U.S. Consulate General in Krakow and The Polish Bibliological Association, Krakow Branch. As a part of the conference on June 4 a videoconference on Project Muse and Scholarly Journals Online with Ann Snoeyenbos, a specialist from the USA will take place at the consulate, Stolarska 9, at the American Information Resource Center.
Conference's website with the program: http://www.inib.uj.edu.pl/eng/confer/bp/index.html
A panel discussion on Energy Policy in U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st century organized by the Institute for Strategic Studies - ISS (a leading think tank on international relations and security) will be held on June 11 at 10:00 a.m. at the ISS headquarters on Mikolajska 4, Krakow. Bogdan Klich, Deputy to European Parliament, former Deputy Minister of Defense, Founder and former President of ISS will be one of the panelists.
Presentation by Prof. Lewis Lockwood and Alan Gosman entitled "The "Eroica" Sketchbook in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska; Aspects of Beethoven's Creative Process" will be given on June 12 at 11:00 a.m. at Instytut Muzykologii, Jagiellonian University, ul Westerplatte 10, Krakow. The presentation will have a Polish interpreter. The event is organized by Instytut Muzykologii at Jagiellonian University and U.S. Consulate General in Krakow.
Information on the speakers:
Lewis Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University. His publications include Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process and Beethoven - The Music and the Life.
Alan Gosman is Assistant Professor of Music, Department of Music Theory. Alan Gosman earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Theory from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Harvard. While at Harvard, he conducted the Harvard Graduate School
Orchestra. He most recently taught at Michigan State University.
Eroica Symphony Title Page
Polish-American Poetry Meeting
Polish-American Poetry Meeting will be held on June 14 at 6:00 p.m. at Jaszczury Club in Rynek Glowny 8. C.K.Williams, Adam Zagajewski, Cecilia Wolloch and Krystyna Lenkowska will read their poetry in original language and in translation into Polish and English respectively. The meeting will be moderated by Jerzy Illg from Znak Publishing House.
Website of Pod Jaszczurami Club: http://www.instytutsztuki.pl/index_start-3-en.html
Conference "Does Poland Need the Missile Shield"
A conference entitled ”Does Poland Need the Missile Shield“ will be held on June 29 at Pałac Pugetów at Starowi¶lna 13 in Krakow. The conference will be attended by Victor Ashe, US Ambassador to Poland; Witold Waszczykowski, Polish Vice-minister of Defense; Guy Roberts, deputy assistant Secretary General of NATO for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy; Bogdan Klich, European Parliament, former Deputy Minister of Defense.
This edition of eJournal USA, "Countering the Terrorist Mentality," provides a look at the complex, global problem of terrorism. Several of the world’s leading scholars in this field examine the motivations of those who carry out terrorist attacks and the techniques terrorist organizations like al-Qaida use to recruit and motivate them.
PDF version of the journal: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/0507/ijpe/ijpe0507.pdf
ejournalUSA Countering the Terrorist Mentality
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