October; 2005
Issue
21
In This
Issue:
* Non-Violent Revolutions
* Steven Pinker in Poland
* "American Friendship: Herbert Hoover and Poland" Exhibit in Katowice
* Lecture on American law
* Partnership for Democracy
* Gospel Week
* Artur Szyk Exhibit
* Document Alert
The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow announces an international conference "Non-Violent Revolutions" on October 6-7 in Villa Decius in Krakow.
In the fall of 2001 the U.S. Consulate-General in Krakow initiated "Bridges of Tolerance", a program to foster mutual understanding through dialog on outstanding international issues of the day. As a result, the Consulate organizes an ongoing series of annual conferences in cooperation with the Villa Decius Association.
This year's program marks 25th anniversary of Polish Solidarność and will focus on "Non-violent revolutions: the quest for freedom and the makings of dialog". The conference has an honorary patronage of Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs and was made possible owing to the large support of several countries including the United States.
On October 6-7 the organizers together with Polish and foreign partners will bring to Villa Decius some of the historical protagonists of recent peaceful revolutions such as Lech Wałęsa, as well as young leaders of recent democratic struggles from Ukraine, Georgia and Serbia. Prominent U.S. participants will include Victor Ashe, the U.S. Ambassador to Poland and John Herbst, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
More information and program of the conference at: http://www.villa.org.pl/index.php
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University will visit Poland in October. He will travel to Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw. His program includes:
Steven Pinker, one of the most noted scientists and writers in evolutionary psychology, conducts research on language and cognition and is the author of several bestsellers including How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct. In his new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Stephen Pinker presents and considers three modern "myths" about Human Nature. These "myths" are variously labeled as the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine.
Steven Pinker's bio at: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/
Review of the book at: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/stephen_pinker.html
Reviews in Polish: http://www.gwp.pl/pinker
"American Friendship: Herbert Hoover and Poland" Exhibit in Katowice
An exhibit entitled American Friendship: Herbert Hoover and Poland will travel to Katowice and will be opened on October 12 at 1:00 p.m. at Muzeum Historii Katowic, ul. Szafranka 9 in Katowice. The exhibit will be on display until November 13, 2005.
It presents selected holdings of the archives of the Hoover Institution in Stanford, California, and the collections of the Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. The exhibit highlights the friendship between Poland and the United States, which was epitomized by the aid provided by Herbert Hoover to Poland after both World Wars.
More information on the exhibit at: http://www.mhk.katowice.pl/aktual.html
More information on Hoover Institution at: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/
Monument of Gratitude to the United States by Xawery Dunikowski
Thomas A. Varlan a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee: will give a lecture on Decision Making Process at the Jagiellonian University School of American Law on October 13 at 2:45 p.m. at Palac Larischa, ul. Bracka 12, Krakow.
Prior to his confirmation to the bench Thomas A. Varlan was a partner in the Knoxville, Tennessee office of the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, where his practice areas included governmental relations, civil litigation, labor and employment law, and representation of quasi-governmental corporations. Mr. Varlan is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (B.A. in Political Science and Economics) and a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law . Prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Mr. Varlan served as Law Director for the City of Knoxville, Tennessee for 10 years where he oversaw all of the City's legal, risk management, and medical services functions.
For details of T. Varlan's program in Krakow please call: 12 424 5140
Partnership for Democracy - International Media Program
The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow together with the Podkarpacie Provincial Governor, and the director of South-Eastern Research Institute inaugurated a new international media program "Partnership for Democracy" on September 27 in Rzeszow. Partnership is a new phase of the Consulate's successful Bridges to the East Initiative which seeks to link Poles and their Ukrainian counterparts on joint cross border issues. The first in a series of six practical workshops for Ukrainian journalists, started with a three day study tour of the Polish agricultural sector and its adjustment to Poland's membership in the European Union. 16 representatives from Ukrainian national and local media visited farms, food processors, growers and breeders to see the impact and challenges involved in adaptation to EU requirements. The experiences shared by Polish journalists -moderators of the program - will be brought to the larger Ukrainian public through radio and television programs produced by the participants The next series of workshops entitled Media Forest and focused on environmental issues are planned for October 21 - 23rd.
The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow is co-sponsoring a Gospel Week that is organized for the 7th year by the Gospel Association in Kraków. This annual event will include a gospel workshop and concerts mainly in Krakow. The Gospel workshop and concerts spread the idea of cultural diversity and tolerance among its participants of different ages and countries like Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Netherlands.
This year workshop will be run by American and British instructors: Gerald T. Smith, (US), Nicky Brown (GB), Ruth Lynch (GB) and will be accompanied by the concerts of Gospel Choir from Washington Voices of Mount Jezreel on October 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Saint Catherine Church, Augustianska 7, Krakow.
The final concert will be held on October 23 at 7:00 p.m. Hala Sportowa Politechniki Krakowskiej, Kamienna 17, Kraków.
More information about the workshops at: http://www.warsztaty.gospel.com.pl/index.htmInformation about concerts at: http://www.gospel.com.pl
The Artur Szyk exhibit Justice Illuminated: The Art of Artur Szyk will be opened on Monday, October 24th, 6:00 p.m. at the Jewish Cultural Center, Meiselsa 17 in Krakow. The opening will be accompanied by the introduction on Artur Szyk's art by Rabbi Irvin D. Ungar of the Arthur Szyk Society. The exhibit presented previously in Warsaw and Lodz is the first presentation of artist's works in Poland after he left the country in 1937.
Artur Szyk, born in 1894 in Lodz, is considered by scholars and art critics to have been the greatest 20th century illuminator working in the style of the 16th century miniaturist painters. Americans first knew and loved Artur Szyk's illuminated manuscripts and political caricatures as they appeared on and between the covers of their most popular magazines during the Second World War: Time, Esquire, Collier's and advertisements for U.S. Steel and Coca Cola. His subjects were as diverse as his uniquely combined styles of renaissance illumination and political caricature.
The Arthur Szyk Society: http://www.szyk.org/index.html
Library of Congress - Information on Arthur Szyk: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/szyk/
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International Development Goals
Moving Forward
Leaders of the world's eight major economies (G8), at their annual meeting in July 2005, called on all nations to recommit themselves to supporting economic progress and good governance in the developing world, particularly in Africa the only continent not on track to meet by 2015 any of the goals agreed on at the international Millennium Summit in 2000 and put forth in the Millennium Declaration.
The new e-journal of International Information Programs provides a glance at some of the individual U.S. development projects throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America that seek to address the key objectives of the Millennium Declaration: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality and empowering women; reducing child mortality and improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability; and developing a global partnership for development.
Publication available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0805/ijee/ijee0805.htm
Cover of Interantional Development Goals
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