Past Events
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Don't Supersize Me: The Heart of Simple Living in America
The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw invited you to a presentation and discussion with Wanda Urbanska, TV producer and author/host of “Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska” on PBS television. She is long-time advocate of sustainability, who has been identified by The New York Times as the “spokeswoman for a phenomenon known as the simplicity movement.”
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America Presents Damian Bednarz
The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw presented the program on the role of new media in elections. Damian Bednarz, Special Assistant in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, met the Warsaw public at the U.S. Embassy’s next America Presents program on January 28 at 17:00 at the Koszykowa Library.Mr. Bednarz discussed the role of new media in elections.
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America Presents Eric Weiner
Eric Weiner, an American journalist and author, long-time foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and reporter for the New York Times, met the Warsaw public on December 10 at infoQultura, to discuss his experiences as a journalist around the world, and his newest book, “The Geography of Bliss.”
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America Presents Anne Nelson’s “The Guys”
Anne Nelson, adjunct associate professor, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, writer, war reporter and media scholar met Warsaw public at the Polish premiere reading of her play “The Guys” (Chłopaki) at the Warsaw Theater Academy “Koło” stage on October 27. The play was translated into Polish by Artur Zapałowski and directed by Jarosław Kilian, staring Małgorzata Lipmann and Dominik Łoś.
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America Presents Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
America Presents Program and the Kazimierz Pulaski Foundation invite you to a debate on “Obama in the White House – but who has the power? Media or politicians?” with two American experts: Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, authors of The Murrow Boys (Houghton Mifflin, 1996) a highly acclaimed biography of the correspondents whom Edward R. Murrow hired before and during World War II to create CBS News.
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Professor Rasma Karklins."The System Made Me Do It: Corruption in Post-Communist Countries".
Rasma Karklins, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was the featured gust speaker at the next America Presents program on May 19. Professor Karklins is a specialist in comparative politics and public policy.
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Novelist and journalist Alex Berenson in Poland
Alex Berenson, writer of spy thrillers and New York Times reporter, visited Poland October 22-24 to promote his second espionage novel “The Ghost War”, continuation of “The Faithful Spy”. In Warsaw, Berenson spoke about the themes he covers in his novels and his experience as a writer at a special America Presents event on October 22.