Beginning in January 2025, the Alumni Association, in cooperation with the Cracow Club of “Tygodnik Powszechny”, are launching a new project under the common title: “Portraits of America.”
The United States of America is not only politics, economy, military sector and mass media. According to us, it is above all a diverse society and a multicolored culture and art. During the meetings, together with invited guests and the audience, we want to talk about contemporary America, its internal problems, great ideas, dynamic society and multi-level culture. We want to show different “Portraits of America” while trying to reveal its true face.
For our talks, interviews and discussions we have invited members of the Alumni Association, as well as scholars, journalists, specialists and fascinators for whom the United States and its society have no secrets.
We meet once a month, or more precisely on the last Thursday of a given month, at the Powszechna Cellar in Krakow. The meeting is reported LIVE on social media on the websites of the Alumni Association and the “Tygodnik Powszechny” Club.
During the first meeting of the “Portraits of America” series, we discussed the famous socio-political weekly “The New Yorker”. Is it a mirror of the Big Apple, as New York is colloquially called? Is it the conscience of New Yorkers, or is it a New York provocateur? We asked our guest what was the primary reason for his research on this weekly, and how much time did he have to spend in its deep archives?
The interview with Prof. Michal Choinski of Jagiellonian University (Fulbright, 2022) was conducted by Anna Piekarczyk (Edward R. Murrow Program, 2023) of Radio Krakow.
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