Name: Beyond Scholarships: 100 Years of the Kosciuszko Foundation's Mission
Start: 2025-11-12T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-12T21:00:00-05:00
Location: The Kosciuszko Foundation

Beyond Scholarships: 100 Years of the Kosciuszko Foundation's Mission

Celebrate 100 years of the Kosciuszko Foundation with Prof. Tomasz Pudłocki—exploring its mission, milestones & founder’s legacy.
About this Event

For 100 years, the Kosciuszko Foundation has opened doors, built bridges, and shaped the futures of thousands of students, scholars, and artists from Poland and the US. Join us for Beyond Scholarships: 100 Years of the KF’s Mission, a lecture by KF history specialist, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Pudłocki as he explores the milestones, challenges, and enduring vision that made the Kosciuszko Foundation a cornerstone of Polish American cultural exchange.

No one could have ever predicted that December 1925 would mark such a significant turning point in the history of American-Polish relations. The Kosciuszko Foundation has become one of the most important and prestigious institutions, creating opportunities and changing the futures of thousands of scholars and students from the United States and Poland. It was not without challenges, and the hard work of many visionary people who followed in the footsteps of Stephen P. Mizwa. How the KF has changed over the decades, who stands by its turning points, and why today it is called the American Centre for Polish culture will be just a few topics mentioned during the lecture.

Tomasz Pudłocki – prof. dr. hab., Professor in the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland). He specializes in the history of culture, science, and education, as well as the migrations to the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Grantee of the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Fulbright, the Piłsudski Institute of America, and the Czech Academy of Sciences. Major publications: Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951), Rzeszów-Warszawa 2023; Ambasadorzy idei. Wkład intelektualistów w promowanie pozytywnego wizerunku Polski w Wielkiej Brytanii w latach 1918-1939, Historia Iagellonica: Kraków 2015, co-editor (with Kamil Ruszała) a collective volume Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918-1923 The War That Never Ended (Routledge: New York - London 2022).