Studium historii i kultury polskiej w Chicago w latach 1978–1979. Oddział PUNO w Chicago de facto, ale nie de iure

• Authors: Wojciech Klas

Title variants

EN

The study of polish history and culture in Chicago, between 1978 and 1979. PUNP branch in Chicago – de facto, but not de iure

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents the Study Centre for Polish History and Culture in Chicago as a planned Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie (PUNO, Polish University Abroad in London) branch, and problems related to setting it up in 1978–1979. The first part presents the originator of the Chicago Study Centre, Professor Michał Bida, and the formal and organizational di¢culties in setting up a new institution. The second part outlines the process of the formation of the organization. e third part describes the issues and misunderstandings between people involved in running the institution and the legal problems related to it, including ones which aected its functioning. The fourth section describes the conflict of the Study Centre administrator with its director, and outlines the consequences. The fifth part describes the crisis within the Chicago organization itself and the collapse of the idea of its formal recognition as a PUNO branch in the USA.

Keywords

EN

PUNO; Study Centre for Polish History and Culture in Chicago; Michał Bida; Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA); PUNO branch in the USA

• Publisher: Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie w Londynie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe PUNO
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 93-116

Contributors

author

Wojciech Klas

• PUNO w Londynie

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1936083