WHAT THEY BROUGHT/WHAT THEY CHANGED:
MATERIAL CULTURE AND POLISH CHICAGO
International Online Conference
To register for attendance, please contact Tara Rutledge: truledge@uchicago.edu
February 4-5, 2021
This conference is supported by the Franke Institute for the Humanities
and the Chicago Studies Program at the University of Chicago
DAY 1 Thursday, February 4, 2021
9:00-9:15AM Central Standard Time/4:00-4:15PM Central European Standard Time
Opening remarks by principal organizers: Bożena Shallcross, The University of Chicago and Agata Zborowska, The University of Warsaw
9:15-10:15AM / 4:15-5:15PM
Recipes for Identity
Chair: Bożena McLees, Loyola University
Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, The University of Warsaw
Modernizing Polish-American Household: Polonia Women and Household Appliances in Interwar Chicago
Anna Sosnowska-Jordanovska, The University of Warsaw
Old world grandma’s coziness for cheap: Chicago’s Polish restaurants in customers’ review on yelp.com
Coffee Break
10:30AM-12:00PM / 5:30-7:00PM
Objectifying Polish Identity
Chair: Sasha Lindskog, The University of Chicago & University of Illinois at Chicago
Tomasz Łysak, The University of Warsaw
Decisive Objects: Zofia Rydet and Allan Sekula Photographing Polishness
Małgorzata Litwinowicz, The University of Warsaw
Written Things
George Gasyna, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Florian Znaniecki’s Traces in Illinois
DAY 2 Friday, February 5, 2021
9:00-10:30AM / 4:00-5:30PM
Creating Chicago Spaces
Chair: Michał Wilczewski, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Dominic Pacyga, Columbia College
Poland Elsewhere: Creating a New Homeland in Chicago
Anatole Upart, The University of Chicago
Polonia Restituta: The Case of St. John Cantius Catholic Church in Chicago
Agata Zborowska, University of Warsaw
“Just let us pass out of the picture quietly”: The Void of Union Stock Yards
Coffee break
10:45AM-12:15PM / 5:45-7:15PM
Material Culture on Display
Chair: Eliza Rose, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Beth Holmgren, Duke University
How Modjeska Modeled Herself in Chicago: The American Stage Star and Polonia’s Patroness
Bożena Shallcross, The University of Chicago
Trees, the Gang of Three and the Polish Triangle
Adam Kola, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Memories and Memorials: On the Polish-Czech Material Reciprocity in Chicago
Lunch break
1:15PM / 8:15PM
Roundtable: Chicago’s Slavic Communities of Things
Chair: Eleonor Gilburd, The University of Chicago
Participants: Magdalena Moskalewicz (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Angelina Ilieva (UChicago), Nada Petkovic (UChicago), Victoria Granacki (independent scholar), William Nickell (UChicago), Esther Peters (UChicago).