About the Lecture: Sharing insights into events of the distant past, Dr. Dabrowski will analyze the illustrious reign and coronation of the first Polish king, Bolesław the Brave (Bolesław Chrobry). She will also explore the questions: What is the significance of the year 1025 for the Polish state, then and now? Is the millennium Poles have been celebrating this year on par with the first Polish millennium, celebrated in 1966?
About the Speaker: Patrice M. Dabrowski is currently an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), and editor of H-Poland. She is the author of three books: The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (2021), Poland: The First Thousand Years (2014; paperback edition, 2016; audiobook, 2022), and Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland (2004). In 2014 she was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Dabrowski was the 2021 recipient of the Mary Zirin Prize, awarded annually by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies to an independent scholar. In 2022 her Carpathians book won two Polish awards: honorable mention for Pro Historia Polonorum, an award for the best Polish history book written by a non-Polish historian in the last five years (2017-2021) as well as honorable mention in the category “best foreign publication promoting Poland’s history” sponsored by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Note that this lecture is held by the Polish American Congress (PAC) in Franklin, WI.