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Polish Americans and the City of Chicago
2025-05-02 16:30:00 2025-05-02 19:00:00 America/Chicago Polish Americans and the City of Chicago Niles-Maine District Library - Commons Meeting Room A&B

Friday, May 02
4:30pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-02 16:30:00 2025-05-02 19:00:00 America/Chicago Polish Americans and the City of Chicago Niles-Maine District Library - Commons Meeting Room A&B

Niles-Maine District Library

Commons Meeting Room A&B

Join the Chicago Chapter of Kosciuszko Foundation as it welcomes Anna Sosnowska, PhD for a thought-provoking talk on the Polish-American experience in Chicago.

While the city boasts a rich Polish heritage, Dr. Sosnowska explores why many Polish-American leaders feel disconnected from the city and its cultural legacy.

About the speaker:
Anna Sosnowska is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw and a 2024-2025 Kosciuszko Foundation scholar at Loyola University Chicago. She is an author of Explaining Economic Backwardness. Postwar Polish Historians on Eastern Europe 2019 and Polski Greenpoint Nowy Jork. Gentryficaja, stosunki etniczne i imigrancki rynek pracy na przełomie XX i XXI wieku 2016 (in Polish). During her stay at Loyola, she works on her book An Abandoned City? Polish-American Chicago in the 21st c. and teaches a class, Chicago. Urban Metropolis (SOCL125).

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