On Tuesday, September 9, in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Foundation, we hosted a screening of Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Jack Strong, a dramatization of the life of Col. Ryszard Kuklinski, a liaison officer between the Polish military command and the Soviet army, famous for passing secrets to the Americans during the Cold War. The film recast […]
On March 19, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, hosted a panel discussion with Ramón Gil-Casares Satrústegui, Ambassador of Spain to the United States, and Ryszard Schnepf, Ambassador of Poland to the United States. The Ambassadors discussed political developments in their countries since […]
On Wednesday, November 6, we hosted Grażyna Plebanek, author of the highly acclaimed and best-selling novels Pudełko ze szpilkami (Box of Stilettos, 2002), Dziewczyny z Portofino (Girls from Portofino, 2005), and Przystupa (A Girl Called Przystupa, 2007). Her visit to Boston coincided with the American publication of her latest novel, Illegal Liaisons (Nielegalne związki, 2010), by New Europe […]
This discussion with Janusz Reiter, Ambassador of Poland to the United States, and Lawrence Weschler, Writer and Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and New York University, took place on September 12, 2007. It is the first in a series of six debates with European Ambassadors organized by the Institute for Human […]