Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

IWP is pleased to announce that Professor Marek Jan Chodakiewicz has been appointed one of the members of The Advisory Board to The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland.

On August 24th of 2017, Professor Marek Chodakiewicz was featured on PolskieRadio in a brief interview to discuss the differences between forced labor camps, concentration camps, and death camps used by regimes in recent history.

A few months ago, I gave a keynote speech to celebrate General Rowny’s 100th birthday. His achievements fill volumes and could accommodate with high distinction the lives of a dozen individuals. In fact, I bring up General Rowny routinely in all of my classes.

The Polish Institute of National Remembrance has appointed IWP’s Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz to the editorial board of its new periodical, Polish-Jewish Studies.

On November 8, 2017, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz moderated a panel on “The Failure of Marxism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union” at the Victims of Communism Centennial Commemoration, a three-day conference organized by the The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to mark the horror of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Speaking shortly after the bicentennial of General Thaddeus Kosciuszko’s death, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz opened the 10th Annual Zdzislaw Zakrzewski Kosciuszko Chair Conference. 

Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz attended the 39th Session of the permanent Conference of Polish museums, archives and libraries in the West — a valuable collection of the vibrant Polish émigré community.

From October 27 to 28, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz participated in the 2nd Oskar Halecki Symposium in Ottawa, Canada.

Monika Jablonska’s new book, Wind From Heaven: John Paul II-The Poet Who Became Pope — a project of IWP’s Center for Intermarium Studies and Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies — has received acclaim in a new review for the National Catholic Register.

In a recent interview with Progressives for Immigration Reform, IWP professor Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz discussed immigration in Eastern Europe and a range of other related issues.