Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

On Thursday, September 19th, Franak Viačorka spoke about the struggle that Belarusians face between Westernization and Russification. Mr.Viačorka is the Vice President of the Digital Communication Network, a consultant for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and the Creative Director for RFE/RL Belarus Service. He advocates for democracy and personal freedom in post-Soviet countries and…

In a panel at IWP on June 13th, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz gave a talk entitled “Losing One’s Country Twice, Finding it Once.” The panel, entitled “Loss of Country,” was co-sponsored by the by the American Academy of Distance Learning and also included discussions on “The Artful Recluse: 17th Century China” with Dr. Richard Bishirjian and…

Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz gave two interviews on the recent visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda to the United States, in which he discussed the geopolitics of the alliance between the two countries. His interview with Michał Rachoń: Jedziemy, Minęła20, Woronicza17, may be found here. His interview with Telewizja Republika may be found here. Dr. Chodakiewicz…

In a recent article for The American Spectator by Dr. Paul Kengor entitled “Spiting Poland’s Communist Bastards,” IWP professor Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz relayed a personal account of the rally in Poland that greeted Karol Wojtyla, or Pope John Paul II, who was the first Polish, and Slavic, pope in centuries. Dr. Chodakiewicz was sixteen years…

As part of an interview for a project for Georgetown University, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz provided the following thoughts about Passport D.C.’s Around the World Embassy Tour.

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz spoke on a panel on Polish issues on the Hill, Cannon Building, at an event entitled “Poland’s Painful Past and Promising Future” organized by John Czop, the Polish American Congress, on May 20, 2019.

IWP professor Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz was recently mentioned in an article about the film The Divine Plan, a documentary on the friendship and cooperation between Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan.

The 11th Annual Kościuszko Chair Conference in honor of Zdzisław Zakrzewski, which took place at IWP on November 3, featured a showing of the film The Divine Plan followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Robert Orlando. 

On November 6, 2018, Professor Marek Chodakiewicz received The Sentinel of National Remembrance Award of DoRzeczy Magazine for 2018. 

IWP professor Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz has recently been appointed to the Academic Council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.